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Daniel Nava: a poor man's David DeJesus

The PECOTA projection system used by Baseball Prospectus works in part by figuring out which players have had similar career paths to each other, and then using those similar players to project future performance. After the Rays claimed Daniel Nava off waivers from the Red Sox, I flipped over to look at the similarity scores, and one in particular caught my eye.

Through their age-31 seasons, the fifth-most similar career path to Danial Nava was that of David DeJesus.

DeJesus, of course, played another year of slightly-above-average baseball in his age-32 season, and then was acquired in a waiver trade during his age-33 season by the Rays.