If I could protect just one MiLB guy in an expansion draft where a team could lose only one, I would protect Zunino. Reason? Some degree of duplication.
Lose Franklin and you say, "Ho Hum! Let's see, we have pretty good 2B prospects in Ackley, Seager, Romero, Miller.....and others." We're kind of loaded there, as a matter of fact....and in case you hadn't noticed. Were Franklin's future at SS, you might reconsider. And Franklin may have split issues. He's a blue chipper, don't get me wrong. But we have guys kinda like him. Heck, it's very possible he isn't the best hitting minor league 2B that we have.
Lose Paxton, or Walker or Hultzen and you still have the other two. You could live with that. And there is some argument which of them is best. Could be any of them. One guy could blow his arm, one could flounder and one could excel....and it would be difficult to pick right now which would be lilely to be which. Well, Hultzen probably won't be the blown arm guy.
But Zunino brings something we're very short of. He brings mash. And he just might be a heck of a catcher to boot. Gary Carter, indeed.
The Kid, BTW, was an everyday catcher at 21. How brave will Wedge and Z be to pull a Posey (who came up at 23?) In fact, Zunino may be our Posey. Basically, Posey spent one full year in the minors (A+/AAA), then 47 games before his '10 call up.
.333-.427-.542 MiLB translates to .308-.375-.492 MLB
Gimme some of that at catcher.
We keep Jaso, we keep Montero. But Zunino is going to foce us to make a positional decision sometime next year. Really.
First dibs? Zunino.
moe
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