Has Miguel Sanó Increased His Trade Value?

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There hasn't been a huge amount of growth in Sano's offensive production through the years. He should be entering the peak of his career, but he's no better than his rookie campaign. Comparing him to the other former top 5 prospect, Buxton has shown notable improvement as a hitter in the last two years. 

I'm glad he's stayed relatively healthy and he has reached 30 homers for the second time. I just think the ceiling for Sano has diminished. When he came to the majors, I thought Miggy could become much more than he has become.

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8 hours ago, jmlease1 said:

Scrub-level? tell us how you really feel about him. (PS: he ain't scrub level)...

 

Scrub is a term from Fangraphs library/glossary used to describe players who provide 0-1 WAR, It's not a term I created. Sano has provided 0-1 WAR in 3 of his past 4 seasons. By definition, Sano is "Scrub" level and has been for a while https://library.fangraphs.com/misc/war/

While it can be tempting to ignore portions of his work and pretend a bad month or two didn't happen, Sano is prone to long cold streaks so throwing out a bad month and pretending it didn't happen isn't realistic when evaluating who he is as a player now or in the future.