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BRAVE LAUNCH

With a speed-power season like no other in major league history, Ronald Acuna Jr. is making his case as the game’s most exciting player BY KIERAN STECKLEY

Rob Manfred should send Ronald Acuna Jr. a gift basket. A really nice one, too.

It’s the least the MLB Commissioner can do after what Acuna has done for the game Manfred presides over.

Not that any sympathy is warranted, but Major League Baseball’s head has had a tough go of it. Several foot-in-mouth comments come to mind. Figuring out a once-ina-lifetime pandemic got the best of our world’s most sharp scientists and politicians, so safe to say a sports commissioner wasn’t going to get it 100 percent right. Oh, and there was a collective bargaining dispute against maybe the world’s strongest labor union.

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