Gabriel Arias showed signs of promise like this before. I’ve never quite believed in him long-term because he never quite seems to sustain the form.
Let’s reset before we move forward. Nothing about the above is meant to be an insult to his abilities, his approach to the game, his demeanor, his overall quality and value as a human being, all that stuff.
Brian and I covered him on Around the Corner for quite a while and this is where it’s funny to have a bunch of old notes scattered around a google drive. It’s not a perfect dataset but here is our Top Ten Prospects as voted by then-Let’s Go Tribe readers from May 12th, 2021.