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Sensing need for break, Crew gives Arcia day to regroup
- Updated: August 18, 2016
CHICAGO — Thursday presented the Brewers a classic player-development question: Expose top prospect Orlando Arcia to Cubs ace Jake Arrieta, or give the 22-year-old shortstop a one-day break? They opted for the latter.
“A little mental break, yeah,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said.
Arcia was 56 at-bats into his big league career as of Thursday morning, with a .161/.242/.214 slash line in that small sample. The same sample-size warning applies to assessing Arcia’s negative zone rating (minus-1.2), which ranked 30th among players who’d logged at least 100 innings at shortstop.
“We’ve seen a lot of good things, and then we’ve seen the things he needs to improve on — and not necessarily ‘improve,’ I just mean consistency,” Counsell said of Arcia, ranked as the Brewers’ top prospect and No. 11 in the game by MLBPipeline.com. “This is a different game, a different level for him, and he’s …
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