Beach Bum88

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.

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!

I agree 100%, but if you go back to my OP, it's in reference the a younger version of Jeter at the time A-Rod came over to NY.

And at the same time Jeter was getting older, A-rod was getting older as well. Don't think Jeter was the greatest SS ever (give me Ozzie Smith on that).

I agree, Correa showed signs of a premiere SS last year. A lot of people make the "A-rod moved to 3rd comparison", but only because he was on the same team as Jeter and it was at the back end of A-rod's career. Unless Bregman is a Jeter caliber defender I don't see Correa ever moving and if so 8 years down the road, which would be too long of a wait for Bregs. I look for him to be traded while his stock is high. I look for Houston to try 3B prospects Colin Moran and Matt Duffy at third. Bregman as well unless he gets traded.

No worries! :bow:

That was in regards to Romero, meaning he won't be as under the radar as Scivicque was considering he (Romero) came from Eunice.

4 guys from that Syracuse teams averaged 11 points or more. They had a PG in McNamara that averaged over 4 assists per game to go along with 13 points per contest, as well as a big man that could protect the rim with over 100 blocks. LSU is a legit PG and a rim protector (Jordan Mickey) from being a contender.