Monday, January 12, 2009

Tear Me Down - Prospect Injuries

Consider it the anti-breakout season. When a MLB player gets injured, there’s some collective breath holding — or if it’s Albert pulling up lame on the basepaths, heart stoppage. When a prospect gets injured, it can quickly become a death knell. They lose out on critical development time, someone else swoops in and takes their job and they can get labeled “injury prone”. How do we reconcile obvious talent and past performance with a current breakdown?

Future Redbirds

No comments: