His profile is a bit strange, though. Coming up in Korea he was regarded as the best prep hitter in the nation, one of the best in a while, but over there, he was an everyday first baseman. For whatever reason, the Mariners decided that they were giong to take this kid with a good bat and probably limited English skills and see if he could catch. This may have been in part because they also signed a Korean pitcher, but that news came a bit later and Choi wasn't often the guy behind the dish when he was pitching.
The low rankings seem largely wrapped up in the fact that his bat at first doesn't play nearly as well as it would at catcher, but a lot of people seem to also think that his power is a lot more likely to turn up in doubles than home runs. Me, I just look at the eye numbers and think that what he lacks at present may come in time, but I would be curious as to the reasoning in why he's no longer playing third.
And BA didn't even have him in their thirty. He ranked 31st for them.
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