Always irresponsible, always one of my favorite posts to conjure up. Let’s look at some players I’ve never seen play and try to project their best 20th, 50th, and 80th percentile comps. It’s a way of visualizing the skill sets of young players as they endeavor to move up the ladder and fulfill their purported promise.
If the comps appear to be too rosy, remember that there is an understood caveat: many prospects will bust entirely and fail to have a major league career. These comps bypass the implied “if they make it at all” and look at the best comps if they pass the essential first test of not being in the sizable percentage of quality prospects whose best comp is AAA McFiller.