I would hope that he works on two things during the offseason -- fielding and hitting curveballs.

 

With enough practice, I believe that he could become a plus outfielder, but maybe he would play better in LF than RF.  I also believe that he needs to take a lot of live BP with pitchers who have decent curveballs.

Why left over right? Arcia has plenty of arm for right field, and Target Field has the smaller area to patrol in right. Arcia will never be speedy or have great range.

Edited October 6, 201412 yr by stringer bell

Why left over right? Arcia has plenty of arm for right field, and Target Field has the smaller area to patrol in right. Arcia will never be speedy or have great range.

 

Yeah, if he could figure the fielding out, he's a prototypical RF: power bat, power arm, acceptable but relatively low range.

He's not "toolsy," but he's got enough of the tools to be an acceptable RF.  I think it's mostly in his head right now.  Still, I sure liked him better in the corners than CC, Hammer, or Kubes...but that's not a high bar either.

You could have said same thing with torii hunter at age 23. Except Arcia's offensive numbers still better

Hicks and Arcia. We hoped one would be a superstar and the other better-than-average, combined with Rosario and Buxton and maybe even giving us a choice of tradebait.

 

Now we hope there could be some value in Arcia before he becomes too expensive at too young of an age, but the fear of David Ortiz Jr. is still in the air. Hicks will probably surprise us and pull a Delmon Young, which makes him a temporary keeper, before playing into sub-standard land.

 

At least we have Buxton and Rosario to dream about. And the hope that Walker wont be any worse ad probably better than what we have seen from Arcia so far.

 

And what about this Jepler kid?