he’ll just bench em for like 4 games and let MAtshit come in there and be prAmium.

and not on how i wish it would happen as predetermined fact.

Two years ago Matt Brown hit 320/373/580 in Salt Lake. Per AB, that’s almost exactly what Trumbo hit (301/368/577). And we all know Matt Brown did exactly turn into a major league slugger. Trumbo’s AAA stats are about the same as what Brandon Wood did, and less than Sean Rodriguez did.

Rodriguez has turned into a nice player in Tampa Bay because he’s an average hitter who can play any position on the field. Trumbo cannot, he’s only valuable if he can hit a ton. He’s a long shot to be a valuable player.

Conger, on the other hand, has more development ahead of him, being only 22, and if he can hit 260/350/400, which he’s not far away from, that is a very valuable hitting line for a catcher.

Sometimes (Kendry Morales) a player greatly exceeds his MLE, and becomes a major league hitter that way. It’s something you can be thankful for when it happens, but not something you can expect. The average player will play like his MLE, a few will exceed (Kendry) and some will fail to meet it (Wood).

For a player to play in the hitter’s haven of SLC and have enough MLE to prove he’s a dominant major league hitter, he’d have to hit like Tim Salmon did: 347/469/672 in 1992. We haven’t had anybody like that since Salmon, though it’s nice to know we’ve caught a Trout.

stuck out the most to me in the whole article. damn funny

…will it’s adherents be taxed to death in support of mass mediocrity? Will failure = premium? Will there be massive, over-sized marble monuments to popular team members…that disappear upon their demise?

Scioscialism…where the future is known. It’s past history that keeps changing.

Mota-Boatin’

but I see Conger being a good MLb offensive player. The reason, he actually has patience at the plate. Trumbo, not so much.

You most likely are not going to be a .300/.400/.500 player in the majors.

The jump from AAA to MLB is not nearly as long, obviously, but the point remains the same.

They estimate what a player transitioning from one level to the next would do given the same # of plate appearances in the same relative time frame.

It doesn’t mean that Conger will be hitting .248 five years from now.

Players in the International league don’t have to post as ridiculous numbers to have good MLE’s, since it’s not as much of a hitters league.

But when guys like Adam Riggs hit 331/373/633, like for the 2004 Bees, then you realize a good hitter has to REALLY stand out in that league to get noticed. Howie Kendrick has been a major league .300 hitter, he hit .369 in SLC.

Kendry Morales is the exception, either he vastly improved when given the full chance to play, or else he was playing way under his ability in AAA. My guess is the latter. I think if you made Kendry in his prime (he’ll be 27 next year) play a full year in SLC, he’d hit .400 with a .750 slugging percentage. But I think we can make better use of the Kowbell.

someone needs to sit him down and explain to him how valuable OBP is. And SLG.