Austin Riley hit two homers in Wednesday’s spring training game against the Rays. On the pitching side, Kyle Wright threw a solid three scoreless innings with two strikeouts. Riley was almost certainly assisted by some friendly wind on one of the homers, but the other was clearly gone. The 24 year old Braves third baseman is coming off of a breakout third major league season in which he put up a 135 wRC+ and 4.2 fWAR. He improved defensively throughout the season, assisted by some positioning adjustments. While he did outproduce his batted ball profile by a decent margin, his batted ball profile was still quite good and Riley has consistently improved every year in his development.
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