![]() It’s not likely, historically speaking, but that’s the kind of start we’re talking about. Crawford didn’t have an OPS+ better than the league average until he was 27 years old, so if you’re believing in Schmitt taking the league by storm, you’re expecting him to be better than Crawford. There’s a lot about Schmitt’s profile that suggests that there might be a two-steps-forward, one-step-back kind of development. The last time the Giants had a right-handed swing-first, power-potential, Gold Glove-candidate prospect at third base like this, he hit. Some of the stats up there are predicated on the number of hits for Schmitt, and one of those hits came on a chopper off the dirt in front of home plate, so let’s cool the McCovey-DiMaggio-ScHmitt comparisons for now, but it’s still hard to fake the raw talent that Schmitt has shown. It’s hard to fake a homer like that and a rocket throw on the same night, for sure. It’s hard to see how he’s not around for a good, long while. Manager Gabe Kapler is saying Schmitt will get time at second base, and he might be talented enough to skip right past the growing-pains penalty that most elite defenders rack up when they learn a new position. If he’s at short, he’s pairing with a surprisingly Gold Glove-adjacent J.D. If he’s at third, he’s pairing with Brandon Crawford to keep a side of the field off-limits to would-be singles. Think about the role that a masterclass defender like Schmitt could play on the Giants if he hits. When Cobb left the game after walking a batter in the eighth inning, Tyler Rogers came in and threw five pitches, all for strikes, with the last one being an inning-ending double play. Alex Cobb, the surprising workhorse and co-ace of the staff, was brilliant again, allowing exactly zero runs for the third time in his last four starts and doing things that Giants starters haven’t done for years. There are other reasons why the Giants defeated the Diamondbacks on Thursday night. My favorite one is MMKsW+, which stands for “Made Mike Krukow say WheeeNot even Joe DiMaggio. Then there are niche stats that mean more than any of them. There are stats, and then there are advanced stats. This throw from the fourth-ranked prospect registered 92.7 mph, making it the second-fastest infield assist in the Majors this year: /aKMDK8Qh8H Most prospects can’t chuck a baseball like this, though: There are tens of thousands of prospects who wish they were as successful in the majors as Frandsen. You remember the shots of Kevin Frandsen’s family when he had three hits in his major-league debut, and then you remember that Frandsen’s career was a tremendous success story when compared to most prospects. Maybe he should stylize his last name as ScHmitt. Schmitt is up there with McCovey and DiMaggio now. Yet it’s right there, in internet ink: Joe DiMaggio. Eight hits, four RBI, and four runs scored in three games … c’mon, what is that? It’s an entirely arbitrary set of stats. If you want to argue that Al Oliver should be in the Hall of Fame, note that he’s the only player not in the Hall with 2,500 hits, 200 homers and a. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the earliest memories I have of becoming a baseball nerd was reading Bill James’ “The Politics of Glory,” where he detailed how it was possible to move goalposts with arbitrary statistics like this. The stats shifted from Brett Pill to Willie McCovey during the game, yet they still found a way to include a player who was even more impressive.Ĭasey Schmitt of the is the second MLB player to have at least 8 hits, 4 RBI and 4 runs scored over his first 3 career games (since RBI became an official stat in 1920). There is so much baseball left in Schmitt’s career. Getting excited about the first three games of a prospect’s MLB career is like pausing Game 1 of the World Series after a first-pitch strike to go pop some champagne. “I will not get too excited about Casey Schmitt,” over and over again, because it’s the only way to get it through your head. Suddenly the on-screen graphic had him with Willie McCovey as the only other Giants rookie to have eight hits in his first three games. A few innings after Schmitt pummelled a long, booming upper-deck homer to give the Giants the lead in an eventual 6-2 win against the Diamondbacks, he got his fourth hit of the night.
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