As with any sport, baseball survives on contentiousness. Who's the best? Who will be the ultimate winner? Who is the most overrated player in baseball?
In the recent player poll conducted by The Athletic, Jazz Chisholm Jr., the Center fielder of Miami Marlins has been given the title of the most overrated player this season.
Chisholm is undeniably exciting. He is easy to market and very entertaining with his distinctive bat flip and other lively characteristics. He even got into the All-Stars in 2022. But here's the rub: But then the mathematical side of it has different tale to tell.
Chisholm is currently ranked 76th in batting average and an astonishing 90th in on-base percentage within the entire league. Of course he has pop in his bat, but the strikeouts are such a big issue. Is all the flash masking a poor and uneven style of production?
If you are overrated this in no way implies that the player is bad. Chisholm is rather young and still has a lot of room left for his development. However, perhaps they have not been met as yet, by perhaps expectations with highlight-reel plays are still high.
It is also important to hold on to the fact that this is just one poll on players and their attitudes. What about other contenders? An aging soldier obsessed with his former achievements and successes? An expensive signing that did not meet the expectations of a free agent? Baseball, as you know, is a long season, and reputations rise and fall with great swiftness.
Therefore, is Jazz Chisholm Jr. all that overrated? Only the years, and his bat, will answer. Nonetheless, what is certain, the case in point as to which player in baseball is overrated is likely to go round in circles, and hit or miss, hit or miss.
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