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'Best ever'? It sounds absurd, but Ronald Acuna Jr. isn't far off

SIX GAMES? Shane Greene thinks for a moment before nodding. Yeah, that sounds about right: After six games in a Braves uniform, he'd seen all he needed to see. Over those six games, Greene watched in silent awe from a bullpen bench in Cincinnati and Minneapolis and Miami as 21-year-old Ronald Acuna Jr. played the game in a way Greene couldn't believe was possible. When Acuna wasn't hitting homers, he was leaping fences to rob them. When he wasn't stealing bases, he was using his arm to deny them. The results were one thing; the style was another.