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Originally Posted by Lukas Berger
What you're stating here might apply in a regular job, but doesn't really apply to baseball as such though.
Players viewed as having high potentials, are generally seen that way based on things like physical tools, which provide them with with an advantage compared to other players, especially at the lower levels of the game.
Often, players with raw ability can dominate at lower levels just based on those tools, even if their game remains raw overall.
Once they get to higher levels, especially MLB, then that advantage goes away, because the overall physical level is much higher. Many of those formerly highly regarded players, who have performed well at every level up until MLB then fail, because their actual abilities (current ratings) are not high enough and they can no longer depend on their physical tools (potentials).
This is a pretty well known phenomenon in most sports.
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I think Billy Beane would disagree with these statements.
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