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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Wednesday, January 02, 2008Future Redbirds: Prospect Q + A w/Keith LawWhen Love Was The Law In
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Posted: January 02, 2008 at 09:09 PM | 11 comment(s)
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um, is he kidding? let's just take apart the logic of these statements:
"most hitters strike me as unique": does that mean all the others are like each other? i would have thought that no matter how different hitters are, we can still compare them.
"How often is a Stanford RHP compared to Mike Mussina?": how many of those are there?
"Why do we typically only hear white players compared to white players, and black to black?": so break the mold keith! tell us how tim raines is not like rickey henderson! :) i don't care what you say: steve nash reminds me more of larry bird than michael jordan.
Hurm.
He said on his blog the other day that he wasn't sure how he had missed it and that, upon many recommendations, he was going to read it.
That book is already on Keith's daughter's list.
And no, I haven't read Watchmen. As far as I was concerned, it was a comic book. It's on the TIME list of the 100 best novels published since the magazine's inception, so I'll give it a shot. Of course, when I went to B&N;to buy it, it was stocked with ... the comic books.
I don't get if this is sarcasm but it's pretty naive to think children's stories aren't great literature.
I just took the comparisons quote to mean that often times they are done on superficial characteristics, rather than true skills. A young power-hitting 3B might be compared to Scott Rolen if he's in the Cards' organization or Ron Santo if he's in the Cubs' system. If that's all that's done, it doesn't tell us much.
Of course, in this instance the interviewer wasn't asking Keith for such a superficial comparison. Isn't the point of a number of projection systems (like PECOTA) to take a look at someone's age, stat lines, and position and find other players with similar profiles? To say he could turn out to be somewhere between Bill Hall and Carlos Beltran gives the likely reader of the article a better picture of Rasmus as a prospect.
April .234/.306/.429
May .340/.439/.699
June .194/.308/.388
July .215/.351/.342
August .359/.470/.777
Rasmus came down with a severe sinus infection in early June and lost 10-15 pounds, and it coincided with him falling into a habit of trying to pull everything. As good as his '07 season was, there is a good chance that his true talent is a lot better than that. I can't wait to see how '08 goes for him.
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