Clint Coulter

[TheCrew07]

Pretty clear I was talking about his batting average. He has struggled quite a bit vs. RHP the past two years.

 

What makes you think I didn't get that? The point is you've bought into a completely arbitrary argument based on nothing more than 1 part of his split.

 

I've posted his complete chart numerous times when discussing him, but here it is again:

[pre]Split G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS

Total 126 529 429 84 123 28 3 22 89 6 4 73 103 .287 .410 .520 .930

Last 7 days 1 5 5 2 3 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 .600 .600 1.800 2.400

Last 28 days 1 5 5 2 3 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 .600 .600 1.800 2.400

Last 90 days 23 99 86 19 33 5 1 5 19 1 0 8 14 .384 .444 .640 1.084

 

Home 65 272 211 46 58 10 0 11 47 3 2 44 46 .275 .419 .479 .898

Away 61 257 218 38 65 18 3 11 42 3 2 29 57 .298 .401 .560 .960

 

vs RHP as RHB 121 408 328 88 21 3 17 67 53 77 .268 .397 .506 .903

vs LHP as RHB 57 121 101 35 7 0 5 22 20 26 .347 .455 .564 1.019

 

April 22 92 74 11 24 7 1 4 17 2 0 15 12 .324 .457 .608 1.065

May 28 122 98 21 25 3 1 6 22 1 2 17 25 .255 .393 .490 .883

June 22 91 70 18 17 8 0 3 13 1 0 15 20 .243 .396 .486 .881

July 24 95 75 13 19 5 0 4 16 1 2 14 20 .253 .400 .480 .880

August 29 124 107 19 35 5 1 3 18 1 0 12 26 .327 .403 .477 .880

September 1 5 5 2 3 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 .600 .600 1.800 2.400

 

2 outs RISP 78 107 87 25 7 0 2 26 18 28 .287 .421 .437 .857

 

vs. Younger Pitchers 33 81 68 17 3 0 3 10 7 19 .250 .370 .426 .797

vs. Older Pitchers 123 448 361 106 25 3 19 79 66 84 .294 .417 .537 .955[/pre]

 

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table

Generated 5/7/2015.

 

So yes he "only" hit RHP in the AVE dept to .268 for the entire season, but that's mostly because he didn't make any adjustments May through July which I regularly lamented on the Link Reports. However is OBP was a whopping .397 and of course he SLG .506... so yeah even though in his break out year his platoon AVE against RHP was .268 he still destroyed RHP for a .903 OPS.

 

The entire picture is more important than any individual component for an ascending player and a .50 point swing in platoon AVE like he had in 2013 is nothing. Let's revisit this conversation after he plays a full season in AA and we have a more realistic data set to work with.

 

It's ridiculous to call a player in A+ a platoon 4th OF because of his AVE splits when his splits have actually flip flopped every year in his young career, using his AVE in his break out season as a 20 year in A ball as proof of anything is disingenuous at best. I've given my honest answer that I'm not sure what Coulter's ceiling is because the variables are still continually in flux, once he's done with AA we'll have a much better idea of what he could be. Any hitting prospect can get exposed in MLB, even the very best hitting prospects, but it's easier to feel confident if they build up a 3 year history of ascension in their stats. My gut feeling by the time Khris Davis hit AAA was that he'd hit enough to be a MLB player but I knew he wouldn't hit .300. We'll have a much better of idea of Coulter's floor and ceiling when he gets to that point as well.

[igor67]

Neither Hart nor Burntiz were introduced as comparisons as prospects. Certainly Hart as a prospect was a wildly different type of player all the way around. Burnitz's prospect days are a little before me. The point in terms of thinking about a ceiling was that both were players who at their peak had an All-star or 2 caliber season and around 10 years of being productive players. So it was about total career value, not how the players got there.