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Yeah Riley is a great hitter with a career .288 OBP. I think the Braves have to think about trading Riley before he completely tanks his trade value. His defense at 3rd base has been pretty bad and his bat isn’t good enough for LF.

Riley had pretty much the same periphials this year that Ozuna had in '19. And we all know what Ozuna did this year. IOW, Riley will be fine. He hit into a shite ton of bad luck this season. Any talk of trading him is asinine. Especially when he hasn't even had a full year of time in the bigs.

Terrible take.

This post was edited on 11/26/20 at 9:32 pm

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Posted by rebel of fortune

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Posted on 11/26/20 at 9:56 pm to SteelerBravesDawg

Ozuna was still an above average hitter last year with a low babip. Riley has no value right now outside of the long ball. His batting profile is very similar to Hunter Renfroe who the Rays just cut. Most projections have him and Camargo with around the same amount of war next year.

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Posted by volfan30

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Posted on 11/26/20 at 10:02 pm to SteelerBravesDawg

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Riley had pretty much the same periphials this year that Ozuna had in '19.

How do you figure?

Ozuna ‘19
.548 xSLG, .387 xWOBA, 49.2% Hard Hit, 20.8 K%, 11.3 BB%

Riley ‘20
.471 xSLG, .325 xWOBA, 42.9% Hard Hit, 23.8 K%, 7.8 BB%

Riley has a bad approach and tons of swing and miss. He does hit the ball hard when he squares it up (though not as hard as Ozuna does or did even in his down years). Riley hit into some hard luck but anyone who has an approach like he does is going to have to do an absolute shite ton of damage to be a valuable offensive player. The underlying metrics don’t support that he’s hitting it hard enough nearly consistently enough to do that.

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