Breaking Out and the Overrated: Dexter Fowler vs. Tyler Colvin

Two highly rated center field prospects with uninspiring numbers entering year and one is breaking out and the other remains overrated:

The list of players with poor plate discipline and average contact skills that become successful major leaguers is a short one. Ask yourself how many players we have seen that have gone on to have successful major league careers with K:BB ratios of 10:1, especially ones that don’t have any one particular plus skill.

However, we see breakout performances from athletes that come out of nowhere because they finally “put it together”. The same could be said about Colvin, but for now he looks like a potential fourth OF with the upside of a possible left handed side of a platoon.