On May 15th, Austin Riley’s dreams came true. After raking for a month and a half, where his entire game was coming together, the Braves promoted Riley to the big leagues. When he was promoted, his strikeout rate was down to 21.5%, his BB-rate was 11%, and his power was through the roof as he’d already jacked 15 HRs and was carrying a 1.057 OPS. The odd thing about the promotion was that it came at a position of which he’d barely played: left field. In fact, he had played a grand total of 4 games when he was asked to become the full-time LFer due to Ender Inciarte’s injury.
2019 Atlanta Braves Player Review, Austin Riley
