The Cincinnati Reds called up Aristides Aquino a week ago. He’s been absolutely, unequivocally on fire ever since. As I type this, in the bottom of the 4th inning on Thursday night, he’s hitting .500/.526/1.056 on the season. That’s an OPS over 1.582 for those keeping track at home. That’s breaking OPS. But tonight the Reds outfielder has been breaking records measured by Statcast, too.
In the 3rd inning of the game Aristides Aquino showed every single soul on this God forsaken planet why he’s nicknamed The Punisher. Down 5-1 Aquino clobbered a home run 445 feet into the upper deck on a line.