flatjacket1 wrote:I was looking at walks, not OBP. OBP includes BA which isn't needed which deciding eye.
I wasn't talking about OBP; I was talking about wOBA. Either way; who cares about his walks? Yeah, he walked at a 8.6% clip whereas Lind walked at a 5.9% clip...thats nice, except that Lind hit .251 whereas Cooper was hitting .211; thus making his miniscule higher walk rate completely pointless.
You don't got from mediocre in AA to batting title in AAA unless you have some form of improvements
Hechavarria was hitting .235 in New Hampshire last season, got promoted, and proceeded to hit .389 in Las Vegas. Note that this was in the same season; there was no secret offseason improvement. He went from not being able to hit a ball to hitting nearly .400 in 25 games worth of at-bats. It means nothing. Arencibia hit over .300 for a full year and he's a below-average contact hitter and has been his entire career.