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1.  Saunders was in pro ball at age 18.  Poythress is a college player.  You're using birth certificates when, with HS vs NCAA players here, you should be using pro experience.
2.  Saunders IS at the front of the line, both with the Mariners and at SSI.  I've said that I think he'll get 3,000 AB's in the majors and that he might hit 30 home runs some year, albeit with a .260 AVG.
I'd love to see the Mariners flip Guti and start Saunders in CF.  I'm not quite as ready as that, to start Poythress at 1B.....
3.  Age-arc isn't the only slider bar on the evaluation equalizer.  You talk as though prospect evaluation is as simple as [OPS] divided by [age] by [league level].  It is mainly Poythress' physical profile that interests me, not his saber arc.
4.  Poythress can't do anything about the fact that he was in a hitter's park, except hit, which he did.
5.  Poythress isn't stuck in A+.  That's where an NCAA slugger plays his first year.  If he's real good.
6.  You have a tendency to chime in *only* when you don't like something you hear.  That doesn't make for quality info-tainment.
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Except for that, I agree with everything you said.
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You're a Saunders fan and that's great.  I wish the Mariners would trade Guti for a bat and put Saunders in CF.
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