When the comp of Alexei Ramírez came up in the recent protracted discussions about the relative worth of the Chicago White Sox middle infield, I thought, damn, thunder stolen.
The two players do not overlay one another perfectly — Ramírez boasted a better balance of offensive and defensive value than the bat-first Anderson has to date in his career — but the similarities are not far off.
Let’s start with the “eye test”: physically, the players could be twins, Anderson at six-foot-one and 185 pounds, Ramírez six-foot-two, 180.
But digging deeper into the numbers, there are parallels.