What to Make of Renteria
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When the Tigers traded two of their top four prospects in Jair Jurrjens and Gorkys Hernandez for Edgar Renteria this past offseason, they had to have set high expectations for the Colombian shortstop. After all, in each of the last three seasons he has increased his batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, and OPS. Suffice it to say, close to the 100-games mark, he has not ...
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Is there hope for Renteria?
Published 7/17/2008 by billfer at The Detroit Tiger Weblog
... actual OPS and PrOPS is the 5th greatest negative difference meaning he’s probably hitting into some bad luck.
So there is hope that Renteria is better in the second half, but what is a reasonable expectation for his final line even if he gets some breaks and manages to maintain his line drive rate? THT put together a spreadsheet that combines Marcel projections with season to date performance to project a final line. Luckily for me, someone else has already run Renteria’s numbers.
His projection for the remainder of the season is ...
