Now focus on those numbers for a second. Really take a minute to look at them. Do you see something strange there? Anything just jump out at you at all? Anything? Keep looking, perhaps it will come to you. Maybe it's like one of those magic pictures where an image appears if you focus long enough. Or maybe it's right there in front of your face, like it is for everyone else in the world.
Seriously, think of all the 3Bs available next year who should be taken ahead of Adrian Beltre: A-Rod David Wright Aramis Ramirez Morgan Ensberg Chipper Jones Melvin Mora Eric Chavez Troy Glaus Hank Blalock Miguel Cabrera (if he qualifies)
To be fair, Beltre was only 20 in 99. And he played 2 years hurt (40 lb. weight loss due to botched surgery). So to use his career stats so far, (extremely young age), (injury), is misleading. On a positive note, his 2nd half ops is almost 100 points higher, with a .881 ops in August. He's learning AL pitchers a bit more, I have him in 3 keepers, and am not worried. There's no way i take a Glaus, Mora, Chipper over him. And how many times has Ensberg had a year like this?
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Now focus on those numbers for a second. Really take a minute to look at them. Do you see something strange there? Anything just jump out at you at all? Anything? Keep looking, perhaps it will come to you. Maybe it's like one of those magic pictures where an image appears if you focus long enough. Or maybe it's right there in front of your face, like it is for everyone else in the world.
Seriously, think of all the 3Bs available next year who should be taken ahead of Adrian Beltre: A-Rod David Wright Aramis Ramirez Morgan Ensberg Chipper Jones Melvin Mora Eric Chavez Troy Glaus Hank Blalock Miguel Cabrera (if he qualifies)
To be fair, Beltre was only 20 in 99. And he played 2 years hurt (40 lb. weight loss due to botched surgery). So to use his career stats so far, (extremely young age), (injury), is misleading. On a positive note, his 2nd half ops is almost 100 points higher, with a .881 ops in August. He's learning AL pitchers a bit more, I have him in 3 keepers, and am not worried. There's no way i take a Glaus, Mora, Chipper over him. And how many times has Ensberg had a year like this?
Ensberg has had a year like this before, well similar, when he was SPLITTING time with Mike Lamb.
Now focus on those numbers for a second. Really take a minute to look at them. Do you see something strange there? Anything just jump out at you at all? Anything? Keep looking, perhaps it will come to you. Maybe it's like one of those magic pictures where an image appears if you focus long enough. Or maybe it's right there in front of your face, like it is for everyone else in the world.
Seriously, think of all the 3Bs available next year who should be taken ahead of Adrian Beltre: A-Rod David Wright Aramis Ramirez Morgan Ensberg Chipper Jones Melvin Mora Eric Chavez Troy Glaus Hank Blalock Miguel Cabrera (if he qualifies)
One of these things is not like the other. One of these things doesn't belong.
Personally, any player who is injure for any significant period of time is going to underachieve - which is why I don't think of them as underachieving.
As such, Beltre, Beltran, Lowell and, to some extent, Randy are the biggest underachievers to me.
Players like Bonds, Gagne, Thome, Ollie, etc. are disappointments to be sure, but not underachievers.
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