Dodgers Los Angeles with a score of 7: 0 to open the 2025 MLB season, but this obviously does not prevent the team from making improvements. Los -angles acquired Speedy Outfielder Esteury Ruiz as part of an athletic transaction on Wednesday, athletics announced.
Ruis, 26 years old, rose to fame in 2023, when he led the American league with 67 stolen bases. Speed is his business card. Its sprint speed occupies the 95th percentile among large ligers, according to baseball Savant.
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The rest of his game remains in the development stage. Even in the best season of Ruis in 2023, he hit only .254/.309/.345 in 497 performances. It was good for 85 WRC+, which means that RUIS was 15% worse than the average large league with a bat.
Despite all these stolen bases, Ruis spent most of the 2024 season in minors. Last year, he played in just 29 games in major, reaching 0.200 in 65 performances. In 2025, he could not make the composition of the High Athletics League, and the team appointed it to appoint on Sunday.
While Ruis did not justify the promise of his speech in 2023, the dooders does not need him to be an everyday participant. The team has a lot of weapons as it is, and can use Ruiz as a threat with the stolen base of the late Inning in the games in which they stretch. Ruis has a lot of speed, but its performance indicators of the stolen base can use some work. It was caught 13 times in 2023, and its ratio was much worse last year. Ruis stole five bases, but was caught four times.
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Given these problems, Ruis could again spend most of the regular season in minors. Dodes currently does not need it, although it can provide depth in case of injury. If Ruis is going to influence the team, it will probably be like a runner in a very specific role. Again, this is what we are talking about. If any team can transform the player through their player development system, these are current champions.
In exchange for Ruis, athletics received a jug of Carlos Duran. In 2024, a 23-year-old teenager saw time at three levels of an insignificant league, publishing 3.71 era in 53 1/3 of the feeds and crossing out 73 attackers.
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