Elly De La Cruz: Leading MLB in Stolen Bases This Season

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00:00All right, let's go around the league a little bit.

00:07Cincinnati Reds, another team you're quite familiar with, you know, before the season

00:12projected potentially to win the division.

00:14They're having a hard time doing that, but one of the leaders of that team has been this

00:18player named Eli De La Cruz.

00:19I'm sure anybody watching baseball is familiar with him.

00:22Talk a little up for him at the beginning, a little down.

00:24It's baseball, right, over the course of the season, but he's going to end up leading Major

00:28League Baseball in stolen bases.

00:30He plays a premium position at shortstop.

00:32What have you seen from him?

00:33Well, Eli De La Cruz, he reminds me of players when we played during my era.

00:41You come in, you're going to hit for a little bit of power.

00:44You have the speed, the arm, the arm is exceptional.

00:48I think everything he's doing this year, he's still in that learning phase where he's trying

00:54to figure out the game for himself, but he's an exciting player to watch.

00:59I think he's the guy that's going to probably be the face of Major League Baseball here

01:04in the future.