Baseball America Best Tools

[SoonerinNC]

Results are in:
National League
Wong – Best Bunter (2nd)
Molina – Best Hit and Run (1st)
Wong – Best Base Runner (2nd)
Goldschmidt – Best Defensive 1B (2nd)
Wong – Defensive 2B (1st)
Bader – Defensive OF (1st)

Pacific Coast League
Knizner – Best Defensive Catcher
Nogowski – Best Defensive 1B
Garcia – Best OF Arm

Springfield
Carlson – Best Defensive OF

Palm Beach
Fernandez – Best Changeup

Peoria
Whalen -Best Defensive 1B
Gorman – Best Defensive 3B

[CardsFanInChiTown]

Some of those are nicely shocking. Glad to see Knizner as the best def C. That always seemed to be the big difference between him and Kelly, in that Kelly was much more advanced behind the plate supposedly.

[stlcard25]

So how are these rankings figured out? Is BA doing it themselves? Are the coaches voting? Players?

I’m just curious. It’s nice to see a number of players with accolades.

[Derek Shore]

BA surveys managers about best tools across every league.

[stlcard25]

That’s pretty cool news then that managers saw Gorman, Carlson and Knizner as the best at their positions.

Knizner has looked good behind the plate from what I’ve seen of him at the MLB level this year. Hopefully he gets a real shot to play next year.

[Euro Dandy]

Nice to hear on Knizner. A few games ago, I heard McCarver say that up to this point he has been thought of as a hitter who happens to catch, and the hope/plan is for Knizner to evolve into a catcher who happens to hit. I’ve not been disappointed in what I’ve seen thus far either, although I don’t see how he gets a real shot to play next year without Yadi going down in a bad way. 2021 will be the year.

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