re: Alex Bregman and the Houston Astros

Dude Jeter had sick range early in his career, and a big arm. I heard a comment yesterday about these metrics you speak of, and they also classify Correa as a below average fielder. I don't know much about the metric, but I know enough about baseball to know these guys are not below average, they are smooth, have (had) above average arms, make the spectacular plays, make the easy plays. Jeter is an all-time great. We are talking about Jeter and A-rod, the only player right now with the potential to play SS with the same ability on the Houston Astros roster, is CC. Until Bregman shows me he can make the adjustment from college to the bigs, he will never be in the conversation to replace Correa. I understand you want power on the corners and all of those things, but a team will not take a great defender and replace him with a lesser, just to get someone on the field. You want to be strongest defensively up the middle. Correa will be great! In some peoples eyes, he already is!

Yup, I would push to develop at 3rd (for Houston's sake), I just don't know if that's best for Bregs. I think he could be a jam up 2nd baseman on most teams in a few years. What really hurts him is that Correa is actually a few months younger than him and Altuve is not very old. Would be nice if one of them were older and he could be the potential replacement. Mainly meaning Altuve, because I don't think Bregamn is an everyday MLB SS.