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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
Snider's defense was good last year (look at UZR), and he has a good career minor league OBP. So again, I'm not understanding how or why you're writing this kid off going forward.
The confidence that you two have in projecting a 22 year old baseball player is hilarious to me. When Greinke was 22, he was struggling with a 5.80 ERA and poor peripherals, but I didn't see anybody ever suggesting that he didn't have the potential to become an elite player. Heck, when Roy Halladay was 23, he had a 10.64 ERA and was forced to go back down to the minors and change his delivery. He returned to become the most dominating starters of the 2000s.
But yeah, Snider's .770 OPS season at 22 means he'll never amount to anything!
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I don't. But if I'm trying to put myself in the position of a GM trading an elite pitcher, I'm going to be concerned about legitimate red flags.
Could Snider become an "outlier" to the general trend? Of course.
And pitchers don't make apt comparisons to position players, and you know this, but it's interesting that you selected Greinke's second year in the league when he was 22. Why didn't you allude to his rookie year? Oh, probably because he put up a 3.97 ERA with 100 SO and 26 BB and a WHIP of 1.166. 3.8 WAR.
Who could have possibly thought he would have amounted to shit?