Was more trying to state the case that he's NOT Branyan/Cust/Dunn/Thome/Ortiz in his sheer volume of walks. Maybe if he proves that dangerous in the bigs with the long ball he will be, but I think Smoak is gonna be more of a TTO guy than Poythress.
Which is why I gave Greg Vaughn and Richie Sexson as guys without QUITE as extreme TTO numbers that might be emulated. Even when Richie was cranking 40 bombs a year he wasn't walking like the true TTO guys we've seen recently. And I think Poythress has a few more singles in him to potentially raise his average and drop his TTO potential (at least as I see it).
I'm just saying his patience points are more likely to be in the 70 to 80 range than the 150 of Thome in his prime. Greg Vaughn ran 90-100 or so (more of a TTO player), and that would be plenty for me. Sexson's 80? Fine too.
But he's gonna need to keep up the threat of being a 30/30 man (HRs and doubles) or better to make that happen. Otherwise he's aiming at a Lyle Overbay career: still not bad, but definitely mediocre for the power position he'll be playing.
~G
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