What kind of season do you expect from Jonathan Schoop?

[rudyrooster]

9 hours ago, ORIOLE33 said:

I think he’ll continue to have “Steady Eddie” type numbers. 300 AVG 30 HR 100 RBI.

That sounds about right to me.

[Spy Fox]

I don't know if he has a much higher ceiling than that .293 AVG and .338 OBP. Those may wind up to be around his career highs.

But I think he can continue to match or slightly exceed those 2017 power numbers. He's very strong and I bet he can be in the 35-40 HR range in a peak season in today's environment.

If healthy he can continue to be an All Star level 2B for the next few years. 

 

[OFFNY]

10 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

 

It's hard to win an MVP on a last place team.

 

 

2 hours ago, Number5 said:

 

Hard yes, but not impossible. 

Ernie Banks won the 1958 NL MVP playing for the 72-82 Cubs. And again in 1959 for the 74-80 Cubs. Let's play two !!!

Steve Carlton won the 1972 NL Cy Young Award playing for the 59-97 Phillies. Only 32 games were won by a Phillies pitcher other than Carlton that year.

Paul Hornung won the 1956 Heisman Trophy playing for the 2-8 Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

 

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And Andre Dawson, who won the MVL for the last-place Chicago Cubs in 1987.

 

Dawson is perhaps the most-remembered member of the "Collusion Club" of free-agent players who were collectively cold-shouldered by the MLB owners throughout both leagues between 1985 and 1987. Dawson essentially went to the Cubs with his hat in his hand, offering to sign a blank check to play for them because he wanted to get out of Montreal due to his sensitive knees playing on Olympic Stadium's artificial turf. He told the Cubs that he would play for them in 1987 for whatever amount they were willing to pay him. The Cubs offered the ridiculously low one-year salary of $500,000 (Dawson's annual value at that time was close to $2 Million), and Dawson signed. He wound up getting the last laugh though, as he had the best season of his career in 1987 and subsequently signed a 5-year extension for almost $14 Million (which made him one of the highest-paid players in the game at the time.)

 

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[Babypowder]

His batted ball data from last season projects for a .325 expected wOBA, his actual wOBA was .355. Barring significant improvement in either batted ball quality or plate discipline, some regression is the safe bet.

[Luke-OH]

49 minutes ago, Spy Fox said:

I don't know if he has a much higher ceiling than that .293 AVG and .338 OBP. Those may wind up to be around his career highs.

But I think he can continue to match or slightly exceed those 2017 power numbers. He's very strong and I bet he can be in the 35-40 HR range in a peak season in today's environment.

If healthy he can continue to be an All Star level 2B for the next few years. 

 

I think there may be some more plate discipline there going forward. I think the defense is going to regress a bit as he ages so in order to match his 2017 level he’ll need the plate discipline.