Originally Posted by
Scrap Irony
And, even with that horrid plate discipline, he still found a way to OPS almost 900. Will that continue? You insist it's impossible. Yet, we've heard that missive before. About A+ ball. And AA. And AAA. Now, he's a sure-fire 4-A player despite his career-long 84 ABs that indicate just the opposite.
In the end, I suppose we'll see.
Here is the difference, other guys have been able to do it in the minor leagues as well. Here is the list of guys in the majors with 2000 MLB at bats and a 4-1 or higher K/BB ratio since 1960 and their quad slash line:
Code:
Player Avg OB% Slg OPS K/BB
Olivo, Miguel .243 .278 .423 .701 6.97
Paquette, Craig .239 .274 .411 .685 5.17
Thomas, Andres .234 .255 .334 .589 5.10
Dunston, Shawon .269 .296 .416 .712 4.93
Patterson, C .252 .290 .404 .694 4.62
Armas, Tony .252 .287 .453 .740 4.62
Duncan, Mariano .267 .300 .388 .688 4.54
Snyder, Cory .247 .291 .425 .716 4.39
Smith, Charley .239 .279 .370 .649 4.35
Abbott, Kurt .256 .305 .423 .728 4.29
Espinoza, Alv .254 .279 .331 .610 4.26
Casanova, Paul .225 .252 .319 .571 4.26
Jackson, Bo .250 .309 .474 .784 4.21
Presley, Jim .247 .290 .420 .710 4.09
Not a single player with an OPS at .800. We have to go 30 players deep before we get to a player over an .800 OPS and it is Alfonso Soriano with a 3.51 K/BB rate. Andres Galarraga is the 31st worst of all time and he is at .844. There were 1178 players who met the criteria between 1960 and 2009 of 2000 career at bats. Only 14 had a K/BB of 4.00 or worse. Francisco has work to do. I believe there is a chance he can do it, but he has to do it because if he doesn't, his current approach just isn't going to work. It never has for anyone else in the history of the game.