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2023 Player Outlook

2023 Recap: Aranda is another young Rays player who has a very good underlying hit tool based on his minor league career stats (.306/.392/.483). Unfortunately, that hit tool hasn’t shown itself during his two partial big-league seasons. Aranda had 87 big league at bats last season spending most of his time as playing first base or DHing. He batted just .230 and had a disappointing 30.1 K rate. 

2024 Outlook: He swung a power bat in the minor leagues but if he continues to be a worm killer (54.4 ground ball rate last season) he won’t he many home runs in the big leagues. As a defensive liability he’s likely to spend most of his time on the strong side of a platoon against right-handed pitching as a DH and occasional first baseman this season.