Mike Stanton Wants to Be a Major Leaguer Now

[Bobbob1313]

I think he is not comparing them, but rather showing that it's easy to put too much into ST success and that is maybe not a good idea.

[Chewford]

[Todd]

I think he is not comparing them, but rather showing that it's easy to put too much into ST success and that is maybe not a good idea.

This.

[FishFF]

You could have just said it's only been a week, don't read to much into ST. Boner and Mike Stanton's success/failures should never be compared.

[Bobbob1313]

I think he is just using a normal message board trick of using an extreme example to make a point. If anyone else had said that it wouldn't have been followed by

[FishFF]

I think it would have

[Ramp]

If anyone brought up Stanton compared to Boner in anyway, it would have and should have been met with a face palm and a nut flick

[Bobbob1313]

Is his point not clear?

[nny]

Posted this at the other place. By no means saying Stanton will = Gentile, especially since you have to consider Gentile made his debut so late, but I found it interesting

Here's one name I just came across. Jim Gentile

A ball-
Gentile: .270, 34 HRs (537 AB, 19yo)
Stanton: .293, 39 HRs (468 AB, 18yo)

A+ ball-
Gentile: .314, 26 HRs (462 AB, 20yo)
Stanton: .293, 12 HRs (180 AB, 19yo)

AA call up same season-
Gentile: .233, 8 HRs (120 AB, 20yo)
Stanton: .231, 16 HRs (299 AB, 19yo)

Gentile was a year older, but their averages and HRs were basically the same. I was real surprised that I'd find somebody who matched Stanton so well in AVG/HR, and meet the caveat of A, A+, and AA in 2 years. Don't know about strike outs, strike outs weren't recorded in the minor leagues back then.

For some reason, Gentile wouldn't make the majors until he was 26. He'd absolutely DEMOLISH minor league pitching for years until he made his debut. He'd only play for 7 seasons, but would hit .261/.370/.489/.859 with a 137 OPS+ (To compare that number to someone this day and age, Hanley's career OPS+ is 138) and average 31 HRs per 600 PA

[PitchingWinsGames]

Wow, good stuff

[McLevin]

Has Stanton ever played 1B?

[lou]

Has Stanton ever played 1B?

I don't like where this is going

[McLevin]

[wanks1212]

from JCR's twitter feed, Stanton was optioned to AA

[Bobbob1313]

Glad we put that behind us. Go kill people and we'll see you in September.

Any news on why Cody was pulled yesterday?