His defense is pretty special already, and has the chance to be amazing. Rendon's middle projection is Rolen, IMO - a great-glove guy who hit well especially for his position but never turned into a league crusher. That was Zimmerman's projection too, until he took off the last two years into obscene-land. I think Rendon's gonna build a house in obscene-land and live there most of his days.
Rendon is trying for David Wright / Ryan Zimmerman offense with Beltre defense.
Hitting either of those marks is obviously a tough task - man's work. Maybe teams are just pitching around him so egregiously that his walk totals are staying lofty. Maybe he only has college power and not pro power - after all his body is not exactly huge at 5'11 or so. I have no worries about size or eye with Rendon - the obscene talent is there.
I like Cole, I do. But I have an inherent distrust for drafting a pitcher that high. With Rendon gone I can absolutely get behind drafting the best college pitcher...but Rendon HAS to be the pick if he's there. To put it another way, Rendon is a second chance to get Edgar Martinez to play third base for us.
And I would throw Cole in front of a (toy?) train to get 20-something Edgar at the hot corner.
~G
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