[情報] Martin Prado是地表上最好的棒球員

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NEW YORK -- Everyone's writing about Justin Upton this week.

He topped Jon Heyman's Stock Watch on Monday. He made it into Dayn Perry's
Top 10 on Tuesday.

Everyone's writing about Upton, the guy who got traded from the Diamondbacks
to the Braves for . . .

"The best player in baseball," Eric Hinske said Tuesday afternoon.

You mean Justin Upton?

No, he meant Martin Prado.

"He's amazing," said Hinske, Prado's teammate for three years with the Braves
and this year with the Diamondbacks.

Prado isn't amazing in the same way Upton can be amazing. He hasn't hit eight
home runs in the first 13 games of the season. He didn't enter play Tuesday
leading the National League with a 1.230 OPS.

But when the Diamondbacks put Aaron Hill on the disabled list Tuesday,
manager Kirk Gibson was able to move Prado to second base. Twelve games into
the season, Prado has started games at three different spots (also left field
and third base), and has also played shortstop.

"He always has the right answer," general manager Kevin Towers said. "Where
do you want to hit in the order? Wherever. Where am I playing today, second
base? OK."

Towers said his only concern is that Prado will see Upton's early success
with the Braves and feel that he's expected to match it.

"I feel for him, because there's always going to be comparisons," Towers said.

The deal wasn't one for one. The Diamondbacks got four other players, all
minor-league prospects, and also gave up Chris Johnson in the deal for Upton.
But the prominent major leaguers in the deal were Upton and Prado, and the
somewhat overworked narrative behind the deal -- that Prado is "gritty" and
Upton isn't -- increased the focus on those two.

The Diamondbacks loved Prado right away, which really would be no surprise to
anyone who spent time with him in the Braves clubhouse.

Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick said this spring that he had spent a
half-hour talking with Prado one on one.

"In five minutes, you get it," Kendrick said. "We're proud to have him."

The only problem with statements like that is that it's easy to use them to
suggest the Diamondbacks weren't proud to have Upton, especially given
Kendrick's public statements last year questioning what had happened to the
Upton who was fourth in National League MVP voting in 2011.

There's no doubt that there were times over the last two years that the
Diamondbacks seemed far too anxious to trade Upton, something they finally
did in late January.

But both Towers and Gibson say they're happy for Upton. Towers repeated
Tuesday what he said right after the trade, that Upton was always going to be
the subject of too much scrutiny as long as he played for the Diamondbacks.

"I don't know if he'd be doing the same thing with us [as he has with the
Braves]," Towers said. "It was a deal that was best for both parties. He
needed a new start. We needed a new identity, instead of being Justin Upton
and the Diamondbacks.

"I think we know who we are now: a band of 25 brothers."

The 25 have been changing regularly, though, a result of many early-season
injuries. The Diamondbacks took an 8-4 record into Yankee Stadium on Tuesday,
but they were without Hill, without leadoff man/center fielder Adam Eaton,
and without utility man Willie Bloomquist.

Hill, who went on the disabled list with a broken bone in his left hand, is
expected to miss the next 4-6 weeks. The Diamondbacks called up shortstop
Didi Gregorius to take Hill's place on the roster, and Gibson said his
starting infield is likely to remain fluid, with Prado and Cliff Pennington
sharing second base, Pennington and Gregorius sharing shortstop and Prado and
Eric Chavez sharing third base.

"I didn't know I was going to have to use [Prado's] versatility this early,"
Gibson said. "He's been a savior. The guy is a 100 percent quality guy. He
would do anything you ask, and he wants to do it."

Again, it's easy to take that the wrong way. Gibson isn't saying that Upton
is less than 100 percent quality, or that he wouldn't do anything you ask.

"There's no ill feelings," Gibson said. "I think people are misguided in the
way they think. You know what, I'm happy for him. I don't want Justin Upton
to fail."

Justin Upton isn't failing. It's true that he once had a streak similar to
this with the Diamondbacks (7 home runs and a 1.494 OPS in 12 games in late
July and early August 2011). But the most home runs he ever hit for the
Diamondbacks in any calendar month was eight; he hit his eighth for the
Braves on Tuesday, with half of April still to play.

No matter how good Martin Prado is, he's not doing that. But no matter how
well Upton does, you're not going to hear Towers say he regrets making the
deal.

"No hard feelings," Towers said. "I'm still happy we did the deal. And I'm
happy for Justin."

He's happy, and why not. He got "the best player in baseball."

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→ lowl99:勇士:沒關係，我們也很開心:)
推 szza2000:以超級工具人來講.Zoby比較威~
推 simonown:點在於Chris Johnson也打超好……
推 JustinUpton:( ￣ 3￣)y▂ξ
推 lowl99:本尊出來了XD!!感謝J-Upton來勇士隊...
推 eon4:FB有了他調度超好用!
推 dudu5566:....
推 immortalqq:目前最強工具人還是Zobrist啊
推 karta328:他的意思是其他神獸不是人
推 homkei:雙贏這樣好啊！
推 usausausa:關鍵字: Brothers
推 MKAngelheart:Prado就是個任勞任怨 努力打球的樸實好球員
推 alex710707:Prado最棒了 比Justin Upton還棒!!!
推 turkeyma:Prado 確實很棒    且既然如此 小蛇們好好安心不要抱怨喔
推 siegemode:這只是自我安慰而已
→ chadtracy:KT go to hell
推 genteme:abc這篇發的心情應該是很火大
推 simonown:#18054剛被打臉嘛XD
推 mittermeyer:蛇球團腦袋...  不過當地球迷也是不離不棄  絕配啊
推 dodo6:雙贏
推 seeyou1002:Shut up, KT.
推 dw1012:正視現實、建立互信、擱置爭議、共創雙贏。
推 tanaka0826:熊庹 決定你的亮庹
推 Smoltzy:MVPrado確實是個很了不起的球員
→ maxspeed150:Prado是每個教練都想要的球員 Upton是想要有還不一定
→ maxspeed150:會出現的
推 XDXDXDD:Prado很棒阿T.T
推 mittermeyer:KT超棒的  全大聯盟的GM都喜歡他
推 miabcd199:Zoby是目前最強工具人吧 我記得WAR很高?
推 eddy1216:請問一下nice snag的意思是 手撐在地板上接住強勁的球?
推 usausausa:就是指反應靈敏一把撈或截住強襲球~~~~不一定要撐地板
→ usausausa:Prado轟洋基~~~~~~~~  J-UP 轟海賊   雙贏互惠XD
推 sft005:地表上最好的棒球員馬上尻了一發給大家看
推 CGary:J Upton No.9 也出來了～ 火到有夠誇張...
推 zunino:( ￣□￣)/喔~~喔喔~~喔喔~~喔喔~~勇勇
推 coollonger:比起霸多 我還是比較喜歡小賈斯丁
推 saigxx:\_/ 我要Upton