Hello baseball fans – you behind home plate, the one up in the cheap seats, and you, still chomping on your hotdog.

Welcome to my baseball blog.

I decided to launch this blog because after reading an article on the top 100 baseball players in Sports Illustrated I felt the writers were sometimes right and sometimes off. This is my spin on those 100 players, as well as others and America’s pastime.

I’m Yulian Avhustyn, a fifth grader and Little League ballplayer.

Hope you stay with me through strikes, balls, outs and home runs till the Fall Classic.

Have another hotdog before you leave.

In Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Baseball Players, Mike Trout and Jose Altuve are “un-arguably” baseball’s best players.

Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels has 100+ RBIs, 30+ homers, 30+ stolen bases, +.300 average and 600+ plate appearances and is a full-fledged member of the 30-30 club. He is one of the five-tool players scattered across baseball, which is a rare quality in this time in baseball. With his great catches and great attitude he is definitely the best player in the MLB.

Jose Altuve of the Houston Astros is the second best middle infielder (fielding-wise) after Cleveland Indians’ Francisco Lindor and hitting for an average of a whopping .346 average and he has big power with 24 homers and 67 extra base hits in that Little League-size height of his. With those little legs he stole 32 bases; he is one of the elites of the baseball.

But the 3^rd one: Kris Bryant of the Chicago Cubs does definitely not deserve this spot – he’s good, but just not third-place-good. I think that Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals and he should switch spots without a second’s hesitation. They are virtually the same in hitting but Harper has better long-ball hitting but Bryant is better at fielding however when Harper gets on a roll, WATCH OUT!!!!!!! Kris Bryant doesn’t get on with big power streaks but could hit to all fields, (Which is a rare quality in this modern baseball age), and could hit really big homers but is not as good as Bryce Harper in the hitting for power and average and arm power. Harper can hit more homers and gets more RBIs than him and could slug more.

The Washington Nationals’ Max Scherzer should DEFINITELY NOT be 4^th. First off, Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers should be switched with Scherzer, Kershaw is strictly better pitcher and has a better sliders and breaking balls and ERA plus the strikeouts, with a 2.31 ERA and 202 SOs. On the other hand, Scherzer just has a decent enough fastball who can put something on it and has stacked up the wins.

 Mookie Betts, the star outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, could really lead the team and drive in those runs and go 2 for 3 with a walk in almost every game, judging that this is the top of the list, he is lucky that this is the beginning, he was ranked well with his 24 HRs and 26 stolen bases. He can also hit for an average of a good .264 average, unlike most centerfielders.

More players later.

In the meantime, Let’s Go Mets!