re: You have to start an MLB team with a pitcher/hitter from the same team...

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That's all great.....so is his OBP going to be higher or what?

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Harper makes much more contact. They walk close to the same rate (10.5 vs. 11.1). Harper is younger. I would guess Harper would have the higher OBP, but not by much. I could be wrong though. As Stanton gets nearer 29-30 and his bat speed slows, how will his O-contact hold up? How badly will that affect his average?

Overall, I'm saying Harper will provide much more value based on similar bat with a slightly higher BA and his much better D.

I would consider Goldy/Corbin...but I don't think Corbin is that great. Wouldn't even make my top 10 even though Goldy is a freakin' stud.

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I like him, but I think catching has taking a huge toll on his bat. I don't think he'll ever be the hitter he was in 2010-2012 again. Hopefully I'm wrong on that, because Posey is one of my favorite players. I just believe that if he pulled a biggio and went full time to 1B, 2B, or 3B he'd become a very feared hitter.

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He hit pretty good the last year. Catcher is the one position where it is actually worth hurting your bat because its the hardest position to find and its production is most correlated to wins and losses

But you can't take any of those combos over Jose/Stanton

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Verlander/Miggy

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Why does everyone keep listing Verlander with Cabrera?

Verlander is not the best pitcher on that team.

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But you can't take any of those combos over Jose/Stanton

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You certainly can. Fernandez has no.1 in the game potential, and I like Stanton alot, but I would take Machado over him in a heartbeat if I had to start a team from scratch. You can find power easier than overall elite instincts and total package like Machado. Dylan Bundy was the best prospect in baseball only 2 years ago with comparable stuff to Fernandez. Taveras has the highest hit tool grade of any prospect in the last few years and Wacha has legit no.1 stuff and proved himself last year on the grand stage. Matt Moore has stuff to be a top 3 lefty in game and Wil Myers has prlly the 2nd best hitting grades of a prospect the last several yrs, only behind Taveras.

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pitchers only have so many innings in them though.

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meh if you are going to be a HOFer or borderline HOFer then 760 IP is a drop in the bucket

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You certainly can. Fernandez has no.1 in the game potential, and I like Stanton alot, but I would take Machado over him in a heartbeat if I had to start a team from scratch. You can find power easier than overall elite instincts and total package like Machado. Dylan Bundy was the best prospect in baseball only 2 years ago with comparable stuff to Fernandez. Taveras has the highest hit tool grade of any prospect in the last few years and Wacha has legit no.1 stuff and proved himself last year on the grand stage. Matt Moore has stuff to be a top 3 lefty in game and Wil Myers has prlly the 2nd best hitting grades of a prospect the last several yrs, only behind Taveras.

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so you'd take all of these over Fernandez and Stanton?

or even one of them? lol

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It is whatever. Scherzer is better now, but I do not think the gap is gigantic.

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It may not be a huge gap, but it's decisively in Scherzer's favor.

Look at the K/9 and WHIPs the past two seasons.

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Jose Fernandez is potential

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Yeh, what he's done over the last 200 innings doesn't qualify as production. You're right, he still has to prove himself.