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Originally Posted by cknox0723
Everyone knows how much I hate lists of numbers, but they paint a much better picture than do words in this case. (numbers through 2003, for reasons you'll see later)
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Excellent points, but I think we just had different conceptions of "late bloomer." I was referring to the fact that he could have been the primary catcher for the Yankees a lot earlier than he was, and even after he was he lost a lot of time to Girardi for no good reason. But yes, he is a late bloomer in the sense that he hit his peak a lot later than you'd expect.
EDIT: In addition, I do wonder how much of his latebloomerness was due to the conversion to catcher.