Projecting outcomes for baseball players is famously difficult. Every offseason, fans rally around picking apart preseason projections for their favorite teams and players. Even the best, most respected analysts get these things wrong often and I am very far from an expert. But, as we like to say about extremely washed sluggers who can occasionally still park one, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while. Well, I’m a blind squirrel and Ty France is my glorious, hit-tool-wielding nut.
From last year’s 40 in 40 on France:
Given how many times I’ve been burned by players like this who “are finally getting their shot” and “let’s just see what they can do with a full season of at-bats” and “well, you know, if it all goes right.