Neil Greenberg believes James Wood's ceiling and floor is very high.
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00:00Where are you on James Wood projections?
00:05I mean, you've got to be bullish.
00:06I mean, the kid is 22 years old and doing a lot of things we haven't seen in a while.
00:14He's being talked about as an MVP.
00:17He strikes out a little bit too often, but again, he's only 22 years old, and he'll kind of figure that out.
00:25And if that's the only knock on your game at this age, being in the majors, you're probably set up for a lot of success.
00:32One, because that's correctable, and two, because the strikeouts don't really hurt you as much as they did before,
00:38or at least we know now that they don't hurt you as much.
00:41But yeah, I mean, there's a lot of momentum with this kid.
00:48He's become a very valuable player in the majors overall, let alone for the Nats.
00:55To say he's a building block, I don't think I'm breaking any ground here.
00:59But yeah, I think that he's got a very bright future.
01:02Hesitant to say how bright, but so far, a 22-year-old doing what he's doing,
01:08he's certainly on a superstar trajectory, and the Nats are sitting on a goldmine here
01:15because they have him under cost control for, what, seven years, eight years, or whatever it is.
01:20That's a huge building block, especially with the rest of their young roster.
01:23Wouldn't surprise me to see the Nats return to contention very soon,
01:27only because their core is very young, and obviously, led by Wood, they look to be very good.
01:33His comparison is Aaron Judge.
01:37Yeah, that's a lofty comparison, but I mean...
01:43Nobody else is 6'7 or 6'8 in the league, though.
01:45Right, it's one thing to say he's the next Aaron Judge, but when the numbers really don't point to anybody else,
01:52you kind of just got to roll with it.
01:53And look, let's face it, if he's like three-quarters of what Judge is, that's still a superstar talent in baseball.
02:01So there's like a lot of...
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