James Wood, Brice Turang on what makes MLB player exciting

What makes baseball player exciting?

In a way, this is an irresponsible issue, aesthetic judgment that defies quantification. What makes a player exciting? Who can say? You know that when you see it.

Beauty is that there is no real answer, as ESPN’s most exciting MLB player carriers – last year’s debut and Version 2025 published on Tuesday – Help illustrate. The excitement in baseball comes in many different forms, and different fans will be attracted to different features.

“I like to see guys that can do a lot of different things in the field,” he said James WoodRepresentative of Washington’s nationals in brackets, who embodies several common qualities among our 32 participants:

• With Baseball from 2025 of 22 years, he is young. The total carrier is younger, with the average age (26.4) more than two years younger than the average MLB (28.6).

• We still meet a tree, which separated last season. The median debit season of our 32 participants is 2022. Three players – Nick Kurtz, Roman Anthony and COLSON MONTGOMERI – They debuted from this year’s opening day.

• At 6 feet-7, the wood is high for the attacker. It is the same height as Aoronic judge and only 2 inches higher than Elli de la Cruz and Kurtz. The average height in MLB is 6-1½.

• The tree has a fast bat that creates a difficult contact. Its swing speed (76.1) rows in 95. percent, and its average exit speed (94 mph) is 98. percent, according to statistics. Collectively, the groups in the group have an average swing speed (74.9) far above the MLB average (71.6) and generate much higher turnout speeds (92.2 mph compared to average 89.2).

But in the end it’s not one Of these things that players mark exciting. It is a combination of skills – and looks a little different for each of them. For wood is a line of Mashup and the height, the mercy of movements, almost the lascine language of the body that suddenly explodes when the bat is filled with the ball or when chasing down the flying ball in the central field.

“Only I can hit the power and start the bases, play defense, just affect the game in many different ways,” the tree said. “I think it’s a way to make excitement.”

On its own side, the tree is grown by running wild-handed by a stroke like Curtis Grandson and Robinson CanoAnd he originally tried to model his game after Barrind bonds. The wood can also remind you of the Lefting Adjust Dave Winfield because of its structure and the way its long limbs take place while moving.

“I didn’t really look at a lot of videos on (Winfield),” said the tree, because he was not the first time he heard comparison with the estate. “I got it a few times, especially when I was in San Diego. I probably need to do some homework.”

Almost all 28 carriers in the carrier are top athletes and run well, helping them fill the Stat Lima columns. But you can come there too pure Maherom – Kile Schwarber It can’t boot and hardly play the field, but with a baseball hard hit (behind Nokia Anthony), he so often guess the ball so often that you can’t take your eyes off from it. Even when it intrudes.

“The loudest Urli I hear during the game are or house run or a big strike,” the tree said. “Or when someone hits one down line and everyone just runs by base.”

Given the different ways where the player’s position can manifer exciting qualities, it is a rather hard pitcher to enter the carrier. We have five, or, so, 4½.

A semi-pitcher is Shohei Ohtani Who is on the base, on the side declares two things that are registered as the most exciting, at least in our nomination process: he is a starter, and he is dominant.

According to a percentage of spreamout-minus-shaltts, solid proxy for dominance, our four qualified pitchers – Pull Skubal, Garrett Crochet, Paul scene and Jacob degram – First, third, fourth and sixth, respectively, in K-BB% in relation to MLB. If the ohtani qualified, the third is the edge tailor.

Ohtani is also registered as more than a little exciting on the board, evaluation in 99. percent of the exit speed, 94. In momentum speed and significantly above average in speed sprint. Complete your skill is without a barbie to the Grand Bask of Players in MLB history, so it is difficult to win.

You already knew everything about the ohtani, of course. One of the fun things about marriage is that every team is at least one nominated, it is a chance that more casual fans understand that they find dynamic performers in Majory, even if they have not yet celebrated national superstar, such as ohtani, judge and Juan Soto.

Players know who these stars are. To the question to appoint some of his favorite players to watch, a wood allegations of familiar names, including the judge, Corbin Carroll and Fernando Tate Jr.., When he saw as a prospectus of Neobašalaće Padrenna, and Soto, who used to trade for.

Then, inability, the tree said:

“I Like Teams Like Milwaukee. They Don’t Have A Line The Best Team In Baseball Right Now Because They Defend And They Run The Basses Better Than Anybody. It’s a Headache Playing Against Them. You Goth Guys Flying All Over The Place. So yeah, they’ve fun to watch. “

This indicates another way to enter the carrier: Highlight on the best and the most exciting team of MLB. That brings us to Milvaukee Brevers nominated Overlaywhich seemed slightly away when it was said to be selected. The reaction can understand because TuranG has a lot of competition in the excitement category in its club house.

“We just got the guys who were players,” Turang said. “I’m not saying other teams, but guys here have competing sticks, database stolen, throwing up great defense. We just play every aspect of the game.”

Breeds are all over the leaders in categories, including the value of Field (third), speed of sprint (seconds), stolen databases (other) and fangrafs’ metric value (first). This is how the team that is at the 19th place in the house driving can be lasting, even in 2025 baseball.

Turang embodies all that and even added any power to his arsenal, who helped him separate much more. Like a gold glove, another pool, it is one of the nine middle lips in the carrier. Add to four center and one catcher (Cal Raleigh), and 14 participants play the middle of the defense, where the athleticism like Turangoms can really shine.

It is not surprisingly the Turanga favorite player was watching early in life, Ken Griffei Jr., Who was the teammate of Turango Father, Brian, in two seasons with Seattle Mariners. Later, Turanga’s interests bend towards Ichiro Suzuki, Vladimir Guerrero Sr. And Andrelton Simmons.

Among the modern, Turanang echoes the wood in simply wondering how many different players in today’s game can be delighted.

“Everyone is a little different,” Turang said. “You have guys like Bobby Vitta, which slits the cover with the ball, playing good defense, can start, can make it kind of. And then you have guys like a judge who are big, strong guys who are big massive history.”

Indeed no matter that marks the player who is exciting, and maybe the real evidence provided fans in Bali parks that react to the amazing things that they see that they take place on the green expanse. It’s a lot to see.

“I feel like a game faster than she has ever been, so athletic”, said “.” The strength and speed combination, there are a lot of guys who have done it, but I feel like it now has more than ever. There is tons of guys that can hit 30 and steals 30. “