The early season surge the Cincinnati Reds saw from Adam Duvall in 2016 was admittedly unexpected. He’d come to the Reds in the trade that sent Mike Leake to San Francisco midway through 2015, though Duvall’s tree-trunk forearms were, at the time, seen as the secondary piece in the deal, as pitcher Keury Mella was one of the top rated prospects in the Giants system before being the key piece in that deal. Once a 3B by trade and almost never an OF of any kind, the concept of Duvall being an everyday LF on a half-decent team was rather farfetched, especially given that he was already 27 years old at the time.
Scott Schebler is following the path of Adam Duvall
