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I may have been unclear. I was not claiming he was a YuBet style preternaturally gifted contact hitter...I tried to make that clear when I commented directly on his BABIP, which has been running unusually high for a high K blah K/BB medium power (not high LD) lefty playing at Cheney. He's a hitter in the minors who has more commonly relied on BABIP than any particular skill that we could expect to translate to the big leagues. I.e. his high batting averages are helping his OPS+ and that will not continue in the bigs.
I am trying to warn you all that we need a lefty bopper NOW...and Saunders is not a lefty bopper NOW.