that's probably the most absurd suggestion Olney's ever made, in a career full of absurd suggestions since 08, there've been seven players in baseball more valuable than Greinke...and he's still just 28 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/zack-greinke-will-get-paid/
this is still a bottom-5 offense in baseball that's conjecture. but the giants skate by with worse. it's not conjecture, it's projection; that's ostensibly the same 2nd-worst-in-baseball offense we're running out there right now the Giants have arguably the best bullpen in baseball and a park that also suppresses offense; they're only the 10th-worst offense in the league, park adjusted
if you don't extend Garza, then he needs to be moved almost immediately and hamels & greinke is still about $300M in commitments, to two pitchers...that's certainly a pipe dream with this FO this alone is like $400M worth of commitments or 1/3rd of the annual payroll. which is why it's a good thing we develop our position players. that's definitely being overstated; there's two guys in the lineup you posted we can expect to be 3-win players
full list: 1 Ty Cobb 765 2 Buddy Lewis 753 3 Robin Yount 717 4 Mel Ott 715 5 Al Kaline 710 6 Freddie Lindstrom 689 7 Ken Griffey 652 8 Alex Rodriguez 648 9 Vada Pinson 626 10 Cesar Cedeno 618 11 Edgar Renteria 611 12 Sherry Magee 605 13 Ted Williams 563 14 Mickey Mantle 561 15 Jimmie Foxx 560 16 Orlando Cepeda 549 17 Stuffy McInnis 545 18 Ed Kranepool 543 19 Dick Hoblitzell 538 20 Arky Vaughan 524 21 Hank Aaron 520 22 Bobby Doerr 520 23 Claudell Washington 519 24 Travis Jackson 513 25 Frank Robinson 512 Castro's ZiPS ROS has him due to finish with 543 career hits by season's end, which should comfortably position him within the top-20 of this list
I can't find 2011, but separating 2010 from what I posted above, 116 PA, .222.276/.370/.636, 28 K in iowa (2011), he hit: .283/.340/.529 vs. LHP .354/.441/.720 vs. RHP
sure they are, if you completely ignore speed, which provides significant value for him just factoring in SB (with wOBA), you see that his .616 OPS the last two seasons has actually been (ever so slightly) more productive than Barney's .687 OPS and Soto's .690 OPS
stumbled upon this the other day (from last october) Dan Szymborski: Going through Castro's Prime: Year BA/OBP/SLG WAR 2012 301/343/432 3.5 2013 308/352/464 4.4 2014 310/356/475 4.8 2015 311/359/479 5.0 2016 310/359/487 5.2 2017 309/360/483 5.1 2018 304/357/479 4.8 2019 304/357/479 4.7 2020 302/354/471 4.3 2021 300/351/466 3.9 ZiPS likes Castro. Going down Castro's comp list: Derek Jeter Robin Yount George Brett Paul Molitor Hanley Ramirez Steve Sax Alan Trammell Garry Templeton Troy Tulowitzki Carney Lansford Zoilo Versalles Roberto Alomar Jim Fregosi Adrian Beltre Edgar Renteria Chris Speier Cecil Travis Robinson Cano Joe Thurston Buddy Bell Lou Boudreau