Quote: Originally Posted By jimmystick on 2/27/2010
More valuable in the NL where you use pinch hitters more often. Does he bat y or righty? He's slightly more valuable if he hits righty, since you'd want him in there for the righty vs y matchup. Also a good pinch runner with that speed if you have your base stealing aggressiveness at 2 or 1 (BR IQ too low to steal more often than that.

I'm not sure this is true. With those ratings, being a righty improves his platoon value. But being a y with reverse splits, imo, given contact, eye, and power, makes him an adequate enough hitter to play every day (as a #3/4 vsL and a #6/7 vsR). I'd develop him, arb him 3 times, then take my Typa A comp.

Quote: Originally posted by dwoolery on 2/28/2010I wouldn't assume he'll be bad against RHP (of course, depends on what you mean by "bad"). I have a similar player currently at Con:95 Pwr:74 v.L:49 v.R:83, Eye:86.His weak split is a little better than yours and he faces fewer offhand pitchers than your guy would, but I play him full time and in 2300 AB's he's career avg .290 / .389 / .502, 120 HR's. Last 2 seasons v.L 200AB's/.281/.362/.513 and 174AB's/.287/.383/.534. Oh, and by the way, he plays half his games in TAC - extreme pitchers park. I would be very careful trading him unless you really love what you are getting back. Your guy will probably surprise you on the upside when he approaches his ratings.

1. 374 at bats is not a large sample size; it's half a season.

2. vL of 49 isn't really that comparable to vR of 36. For one thing, RHP is ~65% of a world's pitching.

3. All that said, I'd love a look at this player' stats against LHP for an entire 15 year career. I'll bet there's 3 or 4 like the seasons cited, 3 or 4 where he can't hit water from a boat, and 5-6 where he's dreadfully average.

If you are in contention for the playoff spot this season, make the trade.