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For what Kotchman would become if he could get the OPS+ up to around 110, 115.
It seems to me that there are any number of these guys, first basemen who came up as super blue-chippers as Sean Casey and Kotchman did, who turned out to be decent technicians in the majors but who just didn't have the same talent as their peers. 
So they wound up hitting around .300, okay walks, disappointing power, "validated big leaguers" but not driving their teams toward winning seasons.
This is kind of how I've seen Michael Saunders, though Saunders didn't come up ballyhoo'ed.

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