SPECULATOR: Searching for the next Jose Berrios
Mar 9 2017
For those that have been with us over the past several years, you know that a common discussion topic on the site has been trying to better understand the minors-to-majors transition for prospects. (For a refresher, see here, here and here.) It’s an elusive, complicated task—trying to get a handle on which prospects are ready to step in and contribute right away, which ones are more likely to struggle upon that initial call-up, and how in the heck to figure out the difference.
Take the case of José Berríos (RHP, MIN), for instance. Heading into the 2016 season, Berrios, who had not yet...
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