Gunnar Henderson 2024

[Moose Milligan]

48 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Gunnar announces he will be in the HR Derby.

WiLl bEinG iN tEh DeRBy RuIn HiS SwInG?1?!!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

[Moose Milligan]

2 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

This list is a mix of over- and under-rating Gunnar.

For example, Cabrera played in a more offense-heavy environment, so his .919 OPS is actually worse than Gunnar's .871. But, Cabrera came up earlier, when he was just 20, while Gunnar didn't debut until lat in his age 21 season. Griffey is somewhat similar, not with the pre-PED era timeline, but he was in the majors at the age where Gunnar was taking the year off for COVID but otherwise would have been in A ball. When ARod made his debut just shy of his 19th birthday, Gunnar was in the Gulf Coast League. But, ARod came up in a season where the AL scored 5.32 runs/game, or a full run more than today so a run in 1994 was worth just about 0.8 runs today.

Mike Trout played 652 games through his age 23 season, while Gunnar will probably end up about half that.

Can't we just have nice things

[DrungoHazewood]

14 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:

WiLl bEinG iN tEh DeRBy RuIn HiS SwInG?1?!!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

You know how this works. He'll "only" OPS .940 the 2nd half and the Twitterverse and all the stupid ESPN talking heads will blame it on the derby because they don't have the slightest idea about anything.