When old stats and new stats agree — just ask the Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic — on a consensus, you’re staring at something special. Cron’s making a case as the franchise’s best first baseman since Todd Helton hung up his spikes.
The stick? The stick won’t shut up. But getting C.J. Cron to talk shop, to wax poetic as to where all that thunder comes from? You’d have better luck squeezing blood from a stone.
That hitter’s making a case — quietly — to be an All-Star. The Rockies’ lone representative at Dodgers Stadium in July just might be the big fish they“Around the league, when I talk to other managers, coaches, players, you know, they’ve been impressed by his play,” Rockies manager Bud Black said of Cron, who went into a snowy weekend series with the Mets at Coors Field leading the National League in home runs and total bases .
The California native and former Utah Utes star ranked among Baseball-Reference.com’s top 5 National League sluggers in metrics such as WAR for position players , Runs Created and Win Probability Added going into the weekend.Cron’s making a case as the franchise’s best first baseman since Todd Helton hung up his spikes. And if you need a number to back that argument up, here’s a big one:
And one half of what, so far, feels like the perfect baseball marriage — a franchise that couldn’t land a stellar bat at first base paired with a slugger who was looking for a landing spot, with playing time, that he could turn into a launchpad. “I had a call with Buddy,” Cron recalled. “We knew each other pretty well , and he said he wanted me to come here and play first base for him. Once kind of got that comfort, it was an easy decision for me.”
“It’s always a ‘surprise’ whenever they’re talking about C.J. Cron,” Chris Cron chuckled. “Well, he’s been around. You were not going to take Albert Pujols’ job . The computers didn’t really like him and what he did, so he had to just bounce around. And his perseverance and his willingness to kind of grind it out is what makes him who he is.”
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