Phillies 2016 Grades: Outfielders
By Matt Veasey
ROMAN QUINN
You already know how I feel about Quinn, either from following me on a regular basis, or simply from reading the opening few original paragraphs of this piece.
Quinn is a potential game-changer, and I believe that he will be the Phillies leadoff man and starting center fielder of the future, with that future beginning next season. Heck, it already has begun.
Since his promotion following the end of the minor league playoffs, Quinn has brought speed and an extra level of dynamism to the top of the Phils’ lineup each night. In the long-term, I see him as almost a Shane Victorino type player.
His 2016 Phillies grade is an “incomplete”, since he only has 65 plate appearances across 14 games, 13 of those as a starter in the outfield.
But as I mentioned back at the beginning of this piece, any Phillies fan who has been paying attention over these last few weeks of the regular season has seen him demonstrate exactly why I have been so bullish on his future.
This was frankly a good place to end this 2016 Phillies outfielders report card piece, with a nod to the future.
If you’re a Phillies fan who hasn’t been following the team lately, take a look once more over these final few games and watch him play on a regular basis, and be excited for 2017.