By Brian Joura
This article is a companion piece to yesterday’s exploration into the likelihood of 25-year-old Christian Scott making the majors and being a success at his relatively advanced age as a prospect. Yesterday we looked at players making their MLB debut at age 25. Today, we’ll look at prospects at similar ages in Double-A to what Scott was last year (24) and when/if they made the majors. It’s a different way of looking at the issue and while we’re using the same time frame, we won’t have a complete overlap of our samples. There’s nothing wrong with that, you just need to be aware that it’s going on.
Let’s get right to it. Between the 2008-2012 seasons, there were 230 pitching seasons with at least eight starts in Double-A while being between the ages of 23-25. Of those, 53 were age 25, 98 were age 24 and 79 were age 23.
Age 25
Majors pre-25: 1
Majors 25+: 11
No Majors: 41
No comments:
Post a Comment