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Monday, March 31, 2008
Jack Cust, Quadruple A hitter?
You know, those guys who the “professionals” think feast on certain types of pitching that they can no longer leverage in the higher levels, those guys are called “Quadruple A” hitters. I’m not suggesting that they don’t exist. I’m sure they do. Can scouts really pick them apart? It’s possible. Anyway, insofar as Jack Cust is concerned, the fabulous Mike Fast says:
Cust did hit better against the worst pitchers, but only slightly more than the league as a whole did. Interestingly, he outperformed the league just as well against the best pitchers as he did against the worst pitchers. He does not seem to suffer from the Quadruple-A stigma in this regard, at least not in 2007.
And that little quote is just 1% of the meat of the article.
I’d also like to point to MGL’s MLEs of 2001-2003. Those were his best players. That’s a pretty good list, isn’t it? Anyone want to compare to what Baseball America had, circa 2002? Right there, that’ll tell you the extent to which “Quadruple A” exist. MGL moves along assuming they don’t, while Baseball America will stop and presume they might.