ROY in baseball often has lot to do with competition in a given season because so many guys come up late. Wily Taveras came close to winning ROY. And of those Dodger players, really only Piazza became a true star. Karros and Mondesi were good not great, and Nomo never came close to repeating his hyped rookie year.
Since 1990 (25 years, 50 winners) you have four guaranteed HoFers (Piazza, Jeter, Ichiro, Pujols); one worthy HoF who'll hopefully get in (Bagwell); three kids who are on a rocket-like trajectory to the HoF (Trout, who I nearly included in the first category, Posey and Harper) and then a host of guys who will at least spark a conversation (Justice, Rolen, Beltran, Verlander, Pedoria, Longoria, Ramirez, Howard... possibly Braun, depending on where we are with PEDs in 10 years.) So more than a 1/3 of the ROYs since 1990 can at least lay claim - or are on track to lay claim - to a fairly sturdy HoF case.... And it's not like the rest of the choices were wash-outs.. Mondesi, Garciaparra, Street - all very good MLBers. The honest to goodness takeaway is that, at least since 1990, RoY seems to very often confirm greatness - there are not too many one-year wonders on the list. So it certainly wouldn't suck if Correa joined their ranks, that's for sure.
Yes, it would. He has no chance to win it this late in year and it would suck if he's not helping the Astros win games this year. ROY only confirms great play and does not cause it.
Not so sure about that. Not to put the cart before the horse, but here's the games played by some of the recent ROY position players: Wil Myers, 88 Posey, 108 Chris Coughlin, 128 Braun, 113 Longoria, 122 Ryan Howard, 88 Jason Bay, 120 Of course there were also guys that played mostly full-seasons as well.
I was just working off the original statement that ROYs are typically very good players for more than a year. But to be fair, Mondesi (multiple 20/20 years, couple of 30/30's, cannon arm) was very good for a few years... and Nomo definitely had a great follow up campaign before falling off.
I should have said a small chance to win ROY after Super 2. I thought Travis had a bigger lead already so he would have a better chance than I thought when I wrote that post. That said, ROY has no bearing on Correa's talent and calling him up this season would hurt his chances to win.
We are running out of things to talk about with Carlos... I now regret ever bringing up the "not-Jeff-Luhnow" quote.
Better than our ML lineup most of these last few years. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tonight's lineup at <a href="https://twitter.com/AbqTopes">@AbqTopes</a> Fontana 2B Correa SS Presley CF Santana RF Singleton 1B Hoes LF Duffy DH Dominguez 3B Stassi C SP Alex White</p>— Fresno Grizzlies (@FresnoGrizzlies) <a href="https://twitter.com/FresnoGrizzlies/status/598272072712749056">May 12, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
How good can this guy be? I admit I haven't kept up with the Astros in a long while, a few games here and there but is this kid a game changer?
Oh yes He has legit potential to be one of the very best players in the entire sport. He is still only a prospect though, but a monster prospect.
Wouldn't be a stretch to predict that he ends up as the greatest Astro ever... expectations are THAT high. That being said, lets let the kid get up here and see a few (and likely struggle at first) before we all get too excited about the future.
