Witt also did that hitting mostly 2nd and 3rd in the lineup. Holliday won't have as many opportunities to accumulate stats hitting 9th.
Although Holliday could certainly make up a lot of WAR defensively. But my point being that hitting 9th will give him less opportunities.
You can slice and dice last year several different ways, but I view this year as a different animal. I think you’d be hard pressed to find any stretch of 44 PA in Hays’ career where he had a .210 OPS.
Yes. 2.9 is pretty high as the O/U for a 20 year old playing 2B IMO. And we knew he wouldn't have Gunnar-type power, or even Westburg-type power, which further limits his ability to accrue WAR.