Will Troy Tulowitzki ever put it together for a full season?

[smapdi]

Just want to throw this out there. If anyone does bust any boxes of Rookie Cup, I'm looking for the Bake McBride plastic Topps Rookie Team Cup thing, I forget the technical name. The one with the original card with the plastic emblem embedded in it. McBrides were #/7, I think, but I've never seen one.

 

[Lars]

To answer the thread title's question: Nope, not this year.

The Rockies just put Tulo on the DL with a hip strain.

It's a shame this guy won't have the big career stats because he gets hurt so much.

He turns 30 in a couple of months and only has 1,000 hits and 173 home runs.
He'll be lucky to double that, and with the Coors Field stigma, he has no shot at the Hall of Fame.

Unlike previous Coors Field hitters, Tulowitzki will be seen as a better all-around player than the usual 1B/OF sluggers whose numbers have been helped by the ballpark.

Maybe with another team, Tulowitzki's numbers do dip and he is a different player, but as a shortstop, he has a good chance of entering the Hall of Fame via the Barry Larkin route as long as he can continue to put up some numbers for one team despite not playing full seasons.

 

[Austin]

Unlike previous Coors Field hitters, Tulowitzki will be seen as a better all-around player than the usual 1B/OF sluggers whose numbers have been helped by the ballpark.

Maybe being a shortstop helps, but I don't know, these extremely lopsided home/away splits so far in roughly the same number of at bats are hard to ignore:

Coors: .418 avg., 14 homers, 35 rbi, 44 runs, 11 doubles

Away: .265 avg., 7 homers, 17 rbi, 27 runs, 6 doubles

 

[maxe0213]

Unlike previous Coors Field hitters, Tulowitzki will be seen as a better all-around player than the usual 1B/OF sluggers whose numbers have been helped by the ballpark.

Maybe with another team, Tulowitzki's numbers do dip and he is a different player, but as a shortstop, he has a good chance of entering the Hall of Fame via the Barry Larkin route as long as he can continue to put up some numbers for one team despite not playing full seasons.

No way does he make the HOF. Have you looked at his numbers ? Sure they are good but he doesn't play enough to put up big numbers in order to achieve the milestones needed for the HOF.

 

[Lars]

No way does he make the HOF. Have you looked at his numbers ? Sure they are good but he doesn't play enough to put up big numbers in order to achieve the milestones needed for the HOF.

He is a shortstop and the milestones they have to reach for serious consideration is a bit less than a guy who can essentially focus on compiling numbers.

Injuries and the Coors Field effect may ding him but he might be the best player in the NL when he is on the field.

 

[Topnotchsy]

No way does he make the HOF. Have you looked at his numbers ? Sure they are good but he doesn't play enough to put up big numbers in order to achieve the milestones needed for the HOF.

Per 162 he is one of the top 2-3 offensive shortstops to ever play. He has obviously not played long enough to be on the conversation yet but he certainly has a better shot than most players.

 

[maxe0213]

Per 162 he is one of the top 2-3 offensive shortstops to ever play. He has obviously not played long enough to be on the conversation yet but he certainly has a better shot than most players.

KEY WORDS PER 162. He's never going to accumulate enough games to have the stats to get in.