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As Ichiro's stats might or might not be deflated, playing in Safeco.
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I don't visualize a Top 100 prospect putting up a much different line from Poythress.  There's a point of diminishing returns, a syndrome wherein average players and good ones tend to post similar lines.
It's possible that in the alternate reality where Poythress was in a pitcher's league, he posted a weak slash line, but it's also possible that he wouldn't have.  We don't get to simply hack his stats down and say "that's what HE would have done."
Context adjustment speaks to the value of a run, not necessarily to what a player would do differently in a different place.  That's pure conjecture.
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:shrug: Poythress played one year out of college, in a hitter's park and league, and wiped it out.  What else could he have done?
It's his physical tools and template that catch my eye.  This year, we'll see.