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I had to triple-check that because I wasn't sure it was real. And 26 HR in those 226 ABs.
As a freshman: 31 BB:23 K in 242 ABs with 20 HR.
So that's actually a better eye than Ackley in college, and with more legit power.
And at Rice, a perennial College World Series contender, not a rinky-dink program at all.
Absolutely, he's head-and-shoulders above the next-best hitter George Springer -- 60 BB:70 K in 243 ABs with 18 HR. Springer does bring 33-of-35 SB (though it's hard to tell too much from college SB figures, other than he is legitimately fast), but that's three times the strikeouts that Rendon had.