Well finding 10 or so spare OF with similiar or better SL% is nice, but assuming most teams have 3 spare OF"s, that puts Taylor about 10th of about 80 spare OF's. I don't think it's his fault that he has so many AB's, it just makes his accomplishments all the more imoressive. Some on your list have only recently started playing and their stats are based on few AB's. The remarablr thing for Taylor is that he's been able to keep his SL% respectable even with more playing time, even improving upon it. Most spare's stats decrease with more playing time, such as Ochoa and Tucker.Originally posted by SteelSD
I don't think I did discount Taylor's Slugging%. In fact, I gave him credit for it. But Taylor's power is not a rarity among spare ML outfielders:
B Buchanan (SD)- .520 SLG
A Echevarria (CHC)- .493 SLG
J Michaels (PHI)- .511 SLG
T Tarasco (NYM)- .490 SLG
K Garcia (CLE)- .541 SLG
R Thompson (MIL)- .626 SLG
E Perez (STL)- .469 SLG
W Cordero (MON)- .492 SLG
A Hyzdu (PIT)- .515 SLG
J Mabry (OAK)- .576 SLG
O Merced (HOU)- .472 SLG
Now, what you're not going to find is a lot of "spare" OF with more AB than those players- mainly because spare OF generally don't get as many AB as Reggie Taylor (and most on this list don't have as many AB).
What you will find if you check the stats, is that the list of Reggie Taylor-like hitters grows much longer if you expand to include overall OPS instead of just Slugging Percent numbers.