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The Cubs start moving players as they send Joc Pederson to the Braves for Bryce Ball:

Bryce Ball just turned 23 was the Braves’ 24th-round choice in the 2019 Draft out of Dallas Baptist University — the same school that the Cubs selected reliever Burl Carraway from last year, and the same school attended by Ben Zobrist. Ball hit pretty well in 2019 split between the Braves rookie league affiliate and Low-A: .329/.395/.628 with 17 home runs. But he’s struggled this year at Advanced-A, though with a good OBP: .207/.354/.396 (35-for-169) with six home runs.
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Pederson’s strength was his power, as his career BA and OBP are low. His isolated power this season is good, as 24 of his 59 hits went for extra bases. With Acuna out due to his leg injury, Pederson will make up for some of that lost power.

The Braves added season age 21 year old, left-handed power hitter, first baseman Bryce Ball to their sixty man player pool. Braves Journal discusses the good and the bad that would need to happen for him to make the team.

I hope Ball plays. If he’s successful at the major league level, his name could become a description of his game. If he continues to hit for power at a prodigious rate, a mistake pitch might become known as serving up a Bryce Ball. Since he is in the same division as Bryce Harper, when Harper singles against the Braves, there would be a brace of Bryces on the bag.

His picture at Baseball Reference has a Ted Cassidy vibe. At six feet six inches, he could become the next great tall scifi actor! The possibilities are endless. Of course, my favorite Ted Cassidy scene was in a western:

It would have been nice to see what Ball could have done at AA this season.

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