“I think baseball is kind of coming back around to those guys,” right fielder Michael Conforto said of his teammate. Though he can appear off-balance in the batter’s box at times, McNeil patiently keeps his hands back to wait on breaking balls. To Callaway, McNeil’s approach ranks somewhere on the swing spectrum between Wade Boggs and Ichiro Suzuki. And no matter what happens at the plate, teammates and coaches eagerly await McNeil’s reviews of his own at-bats. In a lost season for the Mets, McNeil, at the advanced rookie age of 26, was something of a revelation.

Source: New York Times April 14, 2019 21:35 UTC