Valuing Prince Fielder



4 Responses “Valuing Prince Fielder”

  1. Jon Williams says:

    Because of the risk involved I think he’s a player that can only get a full valued contract from one of the huge money teams. The Red Sox, Yankees, and a precious few others are the only squads that can afford to both sign Fielder and absorb whatever part of it ends up being a mistake.

  2. Jesse G. says:

    I think his weight is obviously an issue but I wonder whether there is data on the long-term effects of weight on performance as players age that factors in other measures of fitness? I say this because Prince Fielder has always seemed much more fit than many prior “large” sluggers, certainly moreso than his father.

  3. Jonathan says:

    Two words: Mo Vaughn

    “Almost immediately, he signed a six-year, $80-million deal with the Anaheim Angels, the highest contract in the game at that time.” And in that six year contract, he managed to play 466 games, the last one with an OPS+ of 73.

  4. JC says:

    Dale Murphy collapsed around the same age and he wasn’t overweight. I don’t believe weight isn’t a factor, I just don’t know how big of a factor it is.

    I would suspect that a good comp is his father, and he didn’t age all that gracefully.