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Thanks for clarifying.
At age 24, Langerhans had a full season AAA OPS of .915.
I can't see Saunders doing anything near that this year in Tacoma.  It is, however, basically what Saunders did in Tacoma in '09 (1/2 season). So, at their best in AAA they were about equivalent.  Might MLB equivalency be about the same?
I hate the retooled Saunders.  I didn't really like his loopy approach....but it did provide some dead pull leverage which occasionally reared it's pretty head.  This swing ain't working.  His FB % is way down, as is his HR/FB %.  He's not hitting it in the air and when he does it goes nowhere.  His swing % numbers are almost identical to last year...except his O-Zone contact %, which is up 10%.  Small samples, I know...but he gets wood on the ball a bit better, outside of the strike zone, but he's turned into a powderpuff hitter.  Big, tall, rangy LH guys, who don't hit for average, better hit it into the 12th row in RF once in a while.  If they don't, they become Langerhans-lite.
moe