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Originally Posted by veist
Now lets just hope he stays healthy this year because he can rake.
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There aren't many hitters out there that can (and will) take that pitch and drive it that far to straightaway center.
Pujols would've spun his foot, thrown his hips open, whipped his shoulder out and grounded to SS with it. Holliday would've probably popped it up, though if he were on one of his streaks, he'd have simply muscled it into a liner off the left-center field wall.
But for Craig to simply take the pitch where it was thrown, drop the bathead and drive that mother 450 feet to dead center was incredibly impressive.
The guy is the best pure hitter as the system has produced since Albert. And if you take Albert out, he's likely to end up as the best the system has produced in my lifetime.