Good time to pick up Starling Marte?

I would wait until he's worth about 150 ether before buying him up.

Reddfigg what if I told you marte is overrated

i shouldnt say overrated, more along the lines of over drafted as a supposed 20 HR hitter. He's essentially adam eaton

Marte has potential to hit 20 homers though. Problem is that he's approaching that point in his career where he will stop stealing as much. And thats really where his true value lies.

"essentially"


he's been drafted in 1st and 2nd rd since his 2015 season, and he's not that guy, power wise.

And Billy Hamilton was the 15th best OF per ESPN player rater

Do you know how the player rater works?

Runs 1.08
HR -.59
RBI -.52
SB 7.20
AVG .06

He's a 7.23 player on ESPN player rater - 7.20 comes from SB

Marte

Runs 1.14
HR -.01
RBI .39
SB 5.73
AVG 2.41

He was a 9.67 player

Eaton

Runs 1.78
HR .47
RBI .8
SB 1.32
AVG 1.44

Eaton was a 5.97, not a net negative anywhere and contributed across the board. Balanced.

with Marte's enormous SB boost, he's 3.7 better than eaton ETA: I was looking at the wrong player earlier for Marte's final tally - point still stands

Digest the numbers - the player rater isn't telling you the whole story. Overvaluing steals is a fools game. The guy hasn't been drafted 1st and 2nd rd bc he steals bags, he's drafted there bc people are chasing 20 bombs

I know, I wouldve said "he's adam eaton", but he steals a lot of bags, so he became "essentially adam eaton". Main point is he's overrated based on the assumption that he will hit for power