Exactly! Just like whiskey isn't drunk it just gets you drunk.boobs aren't horny... eh you can take it the rest of the way.
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That's because rookie ball is sort of like orientation for work. It gets you in the system. Then a lot of teams will limit college guys if they have played a lot in year one- especially pitchers. On top of that most organizations aren't going to wholesale cut their AA guys for the new guys.
Troll on.
Fwiw, boomer white was the sec player of year last season and he's ops'n at .552 in A ball with over 250 PAs
It's not a troll. Look at the performance of guys starting out in pro ball from the SEC. Dansby Swanson was taken #1 overall after putting up a 1.046 OPS as a junior. He then OPS'd at .876 in short season A ball and .958 at A+ the next year. Then got promoted to AA and posted a .744 OPS.
There is no evidence that the SEC is equivalent to AA. Otherwise you would see some teams try draftees out in MLB immediately since success in AA usually means you could jump straight to the majors. If Rooker was OPS'ing 1.400 at a level at all equivalent to AA, he'd be an easy top-5 draft pick.
The difference between the SEC and rookie or A ball is that you do see some pitchers that are at a different level, guys like David Price, or Kyle Wright, or Alex Faedo, etc. You aren't going to see a guy that advanced in A ball. But overall, it's pretty equivalent.
Yeah, I get that. As I've said, the difference is that the pitching is going to vary more.
But when judging a stat line, which is how the discussion began, past evidence shows that it absolutely is not AAA, definitely isn't AA, and is roughly similar to A-ball, though guys usually have a bit of a dip in stats when starting there as well.
You should expect Rooker to go into A-ball and OPS over 1.000, then move to A+/AA and put up something more like .950. That is still extremely good, so it's not an attempt to throw cold water on him. But it's not as though you can say he would be doing this in the upper levels of the minors.