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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
It's not great, but JJ Cooper's remarks about it are worth watching.
I don't think THIS requires a sub.
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Last year he looked completely hopeless and overmatched. This year, he does not.
The hit tool has improved a lot, and if he can just be average or slightly below with the hit tool (35-40), Starling will be a quality MLB regular because of his power and defense and baserunning.
I don't think Starling is ready to be a star out of ST 2016, and I expect he'll struggle some at AAA when promoted, but he's come a long way. Basically, he's gone from looking like a guy who was so helpless at the plate he would NEVER get it, to looking like a guy who belongs.
That's more important, in sample sizes this small, than raw numbers. |
From somebody who doesn't know much about the development of baseball players, would it be fair to say that his work in the majors might resemble Moustakas, who has taken awhile to figure out his bat and has faced a lot of ups and downs and frustrations from fans in his career thus far?