I have a bias toward Greg Allen. In his profile, I see a second coming of Kenny Lofton and, thinking about that, I can’t help but once again be a 10-year-old kid running around the backyard throwing baseballs at a net wearing a shirt with Lofton’s face and loving baseball as purely as possible.
Lofton and Allen both reached the big leagues at 24 and in their first 70 games the two have looked somewhat similar, with Lofton slashing .233/.304/.277 to Allen’s .213/.253/.299. In his second season, however, Lofton was given the chance to play daily on an Indians team that finished 76-86, was never in first place in the AL East, and ended the year with a 20-game gap between them and first place.