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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Career minor league numbers are sub-Garcia, hence the concern. The extra year compared to Wisdom is useful, but this guy's projections say AAA.
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I don't bother with anything below AAA stats, for good or ill.
He has a significant enough sample size at AAA to draw from and it shows a guy with good power and solid plate discipline. And when you break it into splits, it shows a guy that absolutely smokes right-handed pitching.
Garcia was an average only guy who went up there looking to hit a well placed grounder or battle long enough to draw a walk. That's not completely useless but it was on this squad where we had no lefthanded power. This kid, OTOH, gives us an actual role off the bench in late innings. He's probably not someone that's going to go out there and house Kimbrel or anything, but he can get out there in the 8th against a setup man and put one in the gap for a crooked number here and there.
Now to be fair, his big league numbers say he may be a AAAA guy and if so, eh, whatever. We didn't give up anything for him and we still have Edman who will be Greg Garcia when he grows up. But the plan here is sound.
If I'm going to grade on process, the process here makes sense.