Originally Posted by
Redlegs23
Count me in as someone who has high hopes for Dickerson. I would much rather see a guy like Dickerson who has speed, plays good defense, and can hit for average over Gomes who is a right handed Adam Dunn with less power. I hope Gomes proves me wrong, but the guy strikes out a bunch and is a poor fielder. Sure he will hit an occasional homerun, but so can Dickerson.
Gomes is not Dunn with less power, he is Russel Branyon with less power.
The only real upside to Chris Dickerson is the fact we don't know about him yet. He is fast with and is an above average defender in LF but, we have no proof that he has turned around his game. On the other hand we know Gomes is garbage, Hairston is a fraud and, Nix and Hopper are even poorer options.
The RedsZone community is sold on the fact that he started taking baseball seriously around the same time that he started hitting the ball well. Hmmm sounds fishy. If I was a 26 year old minor leaguer on a fast track to know where, I would say something similar during a hot streak.
Don't get me wrong I hope he turns into a better version of Alex Rios but I don't think it is likely either.
Here are some of his numbers to glance at. Look at the BABIP from last year and for his career and compare those to the norm of .280-.300
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Season Team BB% K% BB/K OBP SLG OPS ISO BABIP wRC wRAA wOBA
2006 Reds (AA) 14.3 % 33.2 % 0.50 .355 .424 .779 .183 .331 64.3 15.0 .363
2007 Reds (AA) 5.8 % 27.2 % 0.23 .325 .351 .676 .079 .366 13.2 -1.5 .316
2007 Reds (AAA) 12.8 % 37.0 % 0.40 .361 .435 .796 .175 .376 59.9 11.8 .365
2008 Reds (AAA) 13.4 % 29.2 % 0.53 .384 .479 .862 .192 .377 69.0 19.7 .387
2008 Reds(MLB) 14.3 % 34.3 % 0.49 .413 .608 1.021 .304 .410 25.2 10.5 .432
Sorry I can't get the numbers to line up correctly. However it appears everything is skewed 1 stat to the right