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Originally Posted by Kinsella19
I was under the impression that you guys were constantly updating the ratings based on current season statistics? If that's not the case then I'll apologize. As for Conforto, although yes he had a good year last year, was it really a year worth of being one of the best players in this year's game..?
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We don't typically update the ratings for MLB players as the year goes on to any comprehensive degree. Occasionally we'll update them a little here and there to reflect what's going on, but it's a bit more hit or miss than anything and we're always very careful to not go to extremes based on a few weeks or a few months of performances. Which is why we wait until the end of the year to do any major changes to the ratings, or at least until we release the mod with the trade deadline roster updates.
For a guy like Conforto, a slow start while he's coming back from an injury isn't enough to invalidate what he's done in the past.
At that though, I wouldn't say he's particularly egregiously highly ranked. Just on the overall ratings he's ranked around 15-20 among batters, just barely ahead of guys like Logan Forsyth and Willson Contreras.
As to whether his past performance justifies his rating, it's opinional and your mileage may vary. ZIPS liked him a lot though, which is where the high rating comes from. And last year was a pretty fantastic year. It's pretty reasonable to expect a guy who did that at age 24, with Conforto's premium track record of draft position and prospect rankings as well will be able to keep that sort of a talent level or even improve on it a bit. The injury threw him off pretty badly this year it seems, but even now he's starting to heat up again a bit.
So maybe a bit high, but given his age, his talent level and his past performance, not too far off either. You could certainly argue he should be a bit lower, but that's true of a lot of the guys in the set. We're never going to be able to get ratings that people can agree on 100%, given the differences in opinion from one person to the next.