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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Saturday, January 07, 2012ESPN’s OTL: Strength from Weakness (Ben Petrick profile)
Der-K's tired of these fruits from poisoned trees
Posted: January 07, 2012 at 10:03 PM | 11 comment(s)
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1. Astro Logical Sign Stealer Posted: January 07, 2012 at 11:28 PM (#4031496)Ok, he was a very promising prospect but... WHAT THE WHAT!?!?
Hall of Famer? Chill out a lil there ESPN. They really couldn't have just said "future All-Star"? They had to throw silly HoF hyperbole out there?
Obviously you never saw Bill James projections for his rookie year back in the day. ;)
Seriously, he had him hitting like .300/30/100 his rookie season.
Yeah, I went big on Petrick in my APBA keeper league, but figured him for possible legit future All Star + beneficiary of unadjusted Coors Field stats. It's a long way from there to "potential Hall of Famer," unless you want to roll the dice and say that about any 22 year old in MLB. Michael Barrett came up about the same time, and the biggest difference between him and Petrick as prospects was Coors Field.
I wonder if this would have shown up if they were doing the current steroid testing program then, a la Ryan Braun?
I think that being hung up on All-Star versus HoF in this context is missing the entire point. This isn't a hardcore baseball story, it's a human story.
Well I'm guessing the pills he was popping to stay awake would have eventually led to a 25-game suspension.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. :-)
A brief web search turns up that Petrick once had 4 RBI in a game with no hits -- a god of small ball!
Well, duh. But it cheapens the story when the writer throws out silly statements like "Hall of Famer." The Petrick story, which I am familiar with, is a good story. It doesn't need to dumb lines like that in there.
Anyway, fwiw, I liked him quite a bit more than Barrett as a prospect (for reasons other than park factors) - more power, more speed, more defense (less ability to make contact, which I underrated at the time). Heck, they nearly had the same career OPS+ (very different number of PA, mind you) despite Petrick having Parkinson's.
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