ESPN released their Top 100 MLB players of all-time list a few weeks ago. The list sparked plenty of debates. It also spurned a subsequent article forecasting which current players would likely be included in a future top 100 list. ESPN’s Buster Olney included Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler and catcher Will Smith in his prognostication piece.
Walker Buehler
Olney likened some of Buehler’s qualities as a pitcher to that of Hall-of-Famer Nolan Ryan.
“But like a young Ryan, Buehler’s ability to miss bats separates him from his peers — he has 632 punchouts in his first 573?