Welcome to Bucco Breakfast, a new daily morning feature designed to help you through the offseason. Each day we’ll roll out a quick topic designed to spark conversation as well as provide some interesting baseball reading from around the web.
I’m sure you’ve noticed, but the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 2014 first round pick is tearing up the Arizona Fall League. Cole Tucker’s current AFL slash line as of this writing — .353/.417/.431 across 51 plate appearances — is a a showstopper. For his efforts, Tucker will be playing in the AFL Fall Stars game this Saturday.
It would be easy to say that Tucker is putting some things together after a so-so year at Double-A Altoona.