Brewers to decide among these four players

Written by David Hannes on .

Let's pretend that you are the Brewers' GM and wanted to look at four prospects' AAA stats for the year and received these numbers:

Plr. Age G AB R H HR RBI BB SO SB OBP SLG AVG OPS E
A 23 109 430 76 128 4 34 32 65 42 0.353 0.409 0.298 0.762 16
B 28 112 379 62 111 16 59 59 84 5 0.400 0.501 0.293 0.902 13
C 25 105 379 46 118 3 54 28 63 13 0.362 0.412 0.311 0.774 5
D 24 75 273 42 76 11 48 38 89 1 0.367 0.473 0.278 0.839 18

 

Given just these numbers, who would you be most likely to keep?  Who would you most want to trade?

Player B is the oldest, but he's almost played the most games, has the most HR's, the most RBI's, the highest slugging percentage and the highest OBP.

Player A is the youngest, but has the most Hits and SB's.

Player D has the fewest games, fewest hits, the most K's (and the highest K/AB), and the highest errors.

Now...player A can play SS or 2B; player B played at 2B, SS, 3B and OF, while player C can play 2B or SS, while player D can only play 3B.

Who are these players?  Player B is Adam Heether, while player A is Alcides Escobar.  Player D is Mat Gamel, and Player C is Hernan Iribarren.

Does that change anything?  Should it?  Seems like Adam Heether should be kept in place of Craig Counsell (except Heether bats right-handed)...but may also have some trade value.  Based solely on numbers, Gamel would seem to be the least desirable--but many believe has upside potential.

The biggest question?  Why didn't Melvin call up Heether?  Heether is not on the 40-man...but why not?

 

 

 

 

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