PORT ST. LUCIE — This is baseball’s Golden Age if you’re a fan of home runs, analytics, whiny player representatives or shortstops.
For Amed Rosario, that means he could enjoy a fruitful first full major-league season … and still rank nowhere near the top at his position.
The Mets think that Rosario carries the potential to be mentioned, eventually, in the same conversation as the industry’s elite shortstops, and they’re not alone with that take. There’s just no benefit from placing those sorts of expectations on the 22-year-old at this juncture.
“If you put Rosario in the draft, he would’ve been a flat-out No.