Athletics: Jacob Wilson, called to be a new baseball face
‘Play Ball’ in MLB and Jacob Wilson, Shortstop de A’s is called again, is called to be the protagonist
With one hundred percent baseball DNA, Jacob Wilson has monopolized reflectors with Athletics and is called, on the one hand, to make history this season, and on the other to become one of the leading faces of baseball.
The vocation and talent in baseball circulates through the veins of Jacob Wilson. His father, Jack WilsonHe played 12 seasons in the big leagues and went to a game of stars. Today, his son has broken into the major leagues as the face of the A’s and as one of the great promises of the game as Shortstop, the same position that Jack covered in the first decade of the century. 13 years away, Jacob seems predestined to eclipse, by far, the figure of his father.
Wilson was selected in the sixth general place by Athletics in the 2023 Draft, graduated from the Grand Canyon University. He came from a season in which he hit .412 with an OPS of 1,096 in 49 games.
He made his professional debut in 2023 with ACL ATHLETICS and Lansing Lugnuts From the League of the West, he hit .333 in 26 games. But those numbers are not compared to what he did in the first half of the 2024 calendar: in Midland Rockhouingsfrom the Texas AA League, averaged .455 in 22 games. In early May, it was promoted to AAA, to the Vegas Aviatorswhere an injury of almost a month stopped him (from May 18 to June 17), once recovered, he hit .571 in five return games in the Arizona League in a rehabilitation allocation, and resumed his overwhelming form in Las Vegas, where he averaged .398 after 19 games.
It was then that the call to major leagues arrived.
In his premiere year, Wilson averaged .250 (23 hits in 92 shifts to BAT) in 28 games, with two doubles, a couple of triples, three produced and 11 scored; This year, in 87 games, average .332 with new home runs, 42 produced, 17 doubles and 44 scored. A phenomenon. In addition, it has a brilliant glove as a torpedo, with a percentage of .971.
The forcefulness of statistics led Wilson to receive the first star call in his nascent career. Thus, the Athletics had two representatives in the mid -season classic, Wilson, chosen by fans as Shortstop head of the American League, above Bobby Witt Jr., by Kansas City Royals, and Brent Rooker, who was appointed as a batter designated by the vote of the players.
The A’s did not have two players in the All-Star Game since 2021, when Chris Bassitt and Olson came; And it is only the second time, in the last 33 years, that they had two or more players who are not pitchers. In 2014, four participated: Yoenis Céspedes, Josh Donaldson, Brandon Moss and Derek Norris. Rooker was also the tenth Atlético to participate in the Home Run Derby and first from Matt Olson in 2021.
The last Athletics player who started a star game was Josh Donaldson in 2014 (third base) and the last to start at the shortstop was Bert Campaneris (1973-75).
Wilson is also the youngest player in the history of the A’s to start a half -season classic, since Blue life In 1971.
Jacob and his father Jack, currently 47, are the only duo of a father and elected son as hostels in short in the game of stars. His dad went to the star meeting in the 2004 season, as representative of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Jacob is the first rookie to be elected by fans and the second to start a game at short stops, the previous one was Ron Hansenby Baltimore, in 1960.
Before the resumption of the season, this Friday, on visiting the Cleveland Guardians, Jacob Wilson is second in average batting in the big leagues, with .332, second in Hits, with 113.
Jacob averaged .330 in April, .368 in May and .323 in June. Throughout the season, only an average of an average of a punch has been struck every 13.1 appearances to the BAT, the third best figure in the circuit. The last player of the organization to hit above .321 in a season was Jason Giambiwho ended with .342 in 2001.
Socks Seybold It has the highest average batting for an Athletics rookie (.334 in 1901); while the member of the Hall of Fame, To Simmonsholds the largest hits figure in a year as a rookie (183 in1924), figures that Wilson can put in predicament this year that, until now, has been dreamy.
Prior to the game of Sunday July 13, against the Toronto Blue Jays, its batting average with people based was .377, the best of the big leagues. And, well, although it seems that it takes a perfect step, there is a bad note of which to talk about Jacob Wilson and it is that it rolls very often for double play, in fact, it has the second largest number of the MLB this year, with 15. It is not a small thing, true, but it is a rookie.
‘Play Ball’ in the big leagues is singing again and, without a doubt, Jacob Wilson is called to be the protagonist in the second part of the calendar and a new face of the baseball.
