PT TOMORROW: NL West—Offseason Position Battles
Jan 2 2014
The San Diego outfield picture is certainly crowded as the Padres have enough players on their roster to conceivably field two teams. With such a long list of candidates, how is the SD outfield projected to shake out at this early stage? (2013 statistics)
Hitter AB xBA vL/vR OPS PX Spd BPV ============== === ==== ========= === === === Will Venable 481 .277 .833/.786 142 131 68 Chris Denorfia 473 .271 .834/.663 79 123 47 Seth Smith 368 .243 .621/.748 113 87 35 Kyle Blanks 280 .233 .829/.596 108 85 7 Carlos Quentin 276 .277 .863/.852 149 70 83 Cameron Maybin 51 .249 .435/.481 75 101 16
Carlos Quentin (OF, SD) easily has the best skills of...
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