Carlos Quentin

ALL_THE_HYPE said:

Gotta be one of the most underrated players in all of baseball. He was on track to win the MVP before he went down with injury last year and he just crushed another bomb and is currently leading the league so far this year. I like this guy a lot, too bad he plays for the wrong team in Chicago

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Pine Tar said:

Look if he stays healthy, he will have some monster stats.

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nikateen said:

Hopefully he goes to the Mets next year. I want him out of the division.

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ALL_THE_HYPE said:

[quote="Pine Tar":2uh1b5ru]Look if he stays healthy, he will have some monster stats.

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Mudcatsfan said:

Interestingly, he led the league in 'almost' home runs last year with something like 12-13 homers that just barely made it out.

That led many stat-head folks to conclude that his power numbers could easily dip this year from 35 ish to 25 ish based on nothing but luck alone.

Well he's already put up more homeruns in the first week than they were worried about him losing to bad luck.

I'd say he's for real, and we all need to get used to the idea that Carlos Quentin is a power hitting monster.

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ALL_THE_HYPE said:

Mudcatsfan said:

Interestingly, he led the league in 'almost' home runs last year with something like 12-13 homers that just barely made it out.

That led many stat-head folks to conclude that his power numbers could easily dip this year from 35 ish to 25 ish based on nothing but luck alone.

Well he's already put up more homeruns in the first week than they were worried about him losing to bad luck.

I'd say he's for real, and we all need to get used to the idea that Carlos Quentin is a power hitting monster.

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Great post. I think he's definitely legit, sometimes a change of scenery is all it takes to bring the best out of someone.

And luckily for Quentin, do you know what they call an almost homerun?

--A homerun.

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Mudcatsfan said:

ALL_THE_HYPE said:

Mudcatsfan said:

Interestingly, he led the league in 'almost' home runs last year with something like 12-13 homers that just barely made it out.

That led many stat-head folks to conclude that his power numbers could easily dip this year from 35 ish to 25 ish based on nothing but luck alone.

Well he's already put up more homeruns in the first week than they were worried about him losing to bad luck.

I'd say he's for real, and we all need to get used to the idea that Carlos Quentin is a power hitting monster.

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Great post. I think he's definitely legit, sometimes a change of scenery is all it takes to bring the best out of someone.

And luckily for Quentin, do you know what they call an almost homerun?

--A homerun.

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It seems like a silly stat, but apparently you can predict players that will be up or down 5-10 homers based on the fact that they're typical hr distance is right at the fence line.

An unlucky wind pattern on the 10 days you were gonna hit 'close' homeruns means you go from a 32 homerun guy to a 22 homerun guy.

And the same goes in reverse,

Funny how dumb luck factors in.

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