AL/NL ROY 2016

Get your gloves out of the basement, under from your beds and go toss around because pitchers and catchers are just one days away! Baseball is coming and personally I could not be more excited. The Nets as you all know are terrible and the Rangers have been just coasting along going through the motions, so without football, the winter is boring. What better way to kick off pitchers and catchers than to give you my predictions for the best of the young guns of 2016. The rookie class this year has the potential of being one of the best in the past decade, one with future Hall Famers.
The Junior circuit is crowded with talent this year and it makes it very difficult trying to pick the shiniest diamond if you will. Aaron Judge, and Luis Servino in the Bronx possibly, Blake Snell who has dominated the Minors over the past two years for Tampa Bay, and the dynamic duo Berrios and Buxton in the Twin Cities, even Joey Gallo in Texas is in the conversation. Gallo, Servino, and Buxton do have limited Major League experience from last year. Snell does have a forty six consecutive scoreless innings streak dating back to 2014 and does look like the replacement for David Price down by the bay, but Bryon Buxton is the star that Minnesota will use to make a run for it in the AL Central for the next decade or so. Buxton has dominate speed, a good bat, and an above average arm out in central, and quite possibly could be a poor mans Mike Trout. Buxton last season in one hundred and thirty eight plate appearances. Comparing his numbers to Trout in his first action it is really close. In forty games Trout batted .220 with a .281 OBS and a .390 slugging. Buxton batted .209 with a .250 OBS and a .326 slugging. Now we will have to wait and see if Buxton can turn those numbers into something spectacular.
In the National League it is a two horse race on two playoff bound teams. Corey Seager younger brother of Kyle Seager who plays for Seattle is an explosive A-rod, Derek Jeter, Nomar  Garciaparra type of player for the Dodgers, and could help a team that loss one of their aces Zack Greinke some run support. Like his classmates in the American League Seager has limited Major League experience. Seager in twenty seven games was nothing short of amazing, batting .337 with a .425 OBS and a .561 slugging percentage. Now it is a small sample size and this is the Majors where teams dissect tape like no one’s business and will be prepared for Seager come April 4th.  The horse right belong side Seager is on the East Coast dawning the blue and orange in the Big Apple, and his name is Steven Matz. Matz is a part of that deadly starting rotation in Queens, and he also has time clocked in the big legues. In six games he is 4-0 with a 2.27 ERA. Matz was left off the postseason roster but he should be returning to the Majors on the Opening Day roster in 2016, and in a four or five role should have as limited pressure on him to do great things. 
Those are my picks, I'd love to see yours in the comment section below!
Sources:(mlb.com/news, baseballreference.com)

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