Spring Training Thread

[D-train]

~22,000 men have played MLB and 423 have put up 37+ WAR. 1.9% If you include minor leaguers that never made the big leagues you are looking at probably less than 1/2 of 1%.

[Donn Beach]

Geez I open this in the morning and the discussion is why can't Emerson hit a 1.000 ops and needs to get bigger. Hello, he's the shortstop of the future, we don't want him to get bigger. I'd just finished this article about it. He's refusing to accept the narrative that he's going to get too big.

On playing himself off of shortstop

“We don’t think that’s the case at all," said the Mariners' POBO, adding: "He’s refined his body and became an even better shortstop.”

Interesting, they are practically making a SS controversy out of it. It's the given it's JPs last season. That seems a little strange to me.

https://sodomojo.com/jerry-dipoto-basic ... r-mariners

[Coeurd’Alene J]

Colt has big thighs which should transfer into more power as he gains experience and he should continue to fill in and hopefully not as fat as Seager. Kyle was basically overweight later in his career who ran very slowly even compared to his brother Corey who had a similar frame to colt. I hope he’s not Kyle

Kyle put up 37 bWAR. That would be a pretty good outcome.....

People tend to not understand this. A productive major league career like Kyle Seager's is almost a miracle. No, it isn't HOF, but any prospect that gives you that outcome is a massive success.

My thought was Kyle was slow and over weight…. That was why I didn’t want him to be Kyle Seager. I actually said more like Corey. But people don’t tend to not understand this……..