By the numbers:
Rating: 7.77
2024 Stats: 106 G, 279 PA, .291/.348/.528, 140 OPS+, 2.2 bWAR, 1.5 fWAR
Date of Birth: August 13, 1991
2024 Earnings: $2,000,000 (per Spotrac)
2025 Status: Unrestricted free agent
I love the confidence of the votes for 10sIntroduction
“Why can’t baseball teams properly evaluate draftees?” is one of the constant refrains between my dad and I. There are obviously far, far more examples of unsuccessful draftees than there are for successful ones. I am sure there are innumerable reasons for why it is so difficult to predict a player’s success rate including their individual psychological makeup, injury possibility, and just general bad luck, but it will never cease to…
