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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
I love that you guys are projecting an entire career based off of the enormous sample size of 600 AB over a kid's age 21 and 22 seasons. Get some damn perspective and baseball acumen and return to this thread.
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Son - there is no doubt in my mind that I know more about baseball than you.
Absolutely none.
I'm sorry I'm not busy not sucking off your little strikeout artist. Tell you what - Go ahead and give me a list of guys with his K/BB ratio and his K/9 ratio at 22 years old and show me how many superstars are in there.
I'll wait.
Strikezone judgment is what it is. Very
very few players actually develop much in this regard. You'll have your outliers like Jose Reyes, but most kids are who they are by the time they're in their 20s. You may get some improvement in the margins, but Travis Snider isn't going to become a .900 OPS hitter w/ a 150/75 K/BB ratio - not gonna happen. As a consequence of his low BB total, his OBP will be entirely AVG driven and as a consequence of his high K rate and low contact %, he'll never have an exceptional BA either.
He'll have an OPS based fueled by his slg%, same as many other valuable but limited players in this league. Time and time again history has proven this to be true.
Then again - as a baseball expert, I'm sure you already knew that.