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I'm not giving up on Prior yet but I'd like to see him put together 3 years of being injury free also. Fucking Cubs, they have a true HOF quality player and they had him average 110 P/GS at 22 and 23.
Overall, I think Beckett will be a quality pitcher, solid #2 or #3 type, but not ace potential. His peripherals are excellent (extremely low HR rate, great K rate, descent BB rate) and even though they will all rise they won't kill him. Eventually he might be a true ace, the AL East is just so tough. There are so many great hitters there.
Burnett is higher risk but I think he has much higher potential. I think health is his only quesiton. Aside from his BB's his peripheralls are just as good as Beckett's but his H/R splits aren't quite as drastic. As long as he's healthy (big question) I think he can put up an ERA in the mid to high 3's no problem.
Soriano says he won't play the OF. Wake up, you suck at 2B! He has good reason not to, as a CF he'd still be great offensively but as a corner OF he's pretty average.
I think Javy will have a nice rebound year. AZ's OF really hurt him, their OF defense was pathetic.
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