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Originally Posted by Lukas Berger
Well, we're using the ZIPS projections as the base here, not the past season's performance, as with all the ratings, and ZIPS is extremely high on Soto.
Which seems not unreasonable, given that what he did at his age last year is nearly unprecedented.
We were a bit shocked when we saw them and checked them over, but they checked out.
Acuna is not really particularly comparable to McKinney though, when you take the overall picture into account. He's actually at least somewhat better at literally everything and significantly better at some things when you look at the raw ratings. Plus he has more potential to grow still.
But overall, it's probably a case of ZIPS being a bit high on Soto and McKinney and a bit low on Acuna, for whatever reason. We do smooth out some of the rough spots with ZIPS, so we can take a look here, but at first glance, all I really see that's likely off is that McKinney might be a touch too highly rated.
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Why only use ZiPS though, and not some sort of aggregate of multiple projection systems? Because right now it looks like Soto is going to win the Triple Crown in the NL in ootp20 at age 19, he is rated as the best pure hitter in the NL and it's not close...