Long term: Trout, Harper, Machado or Puig

[Angrioter]

At the same price, who would you choose to build a franchise.

 

Trout: 5 tools guy (10 WAR season)

 

Harper: Gamer, 8/8 power

 

Machado: Stud in a premium position. A rare piece and hard to find.

 

Puig: 5 tools guy (following the Trout steps.)

[Dr. Dinger]

Buxton.

[Nox]

Buxton.

 

Dinger's Rules to Live By #22: Never pass up an opportunity to pimp one of your fantasy teams. Never.

[Angrioter]

Buxton.

 

Buxton is a stud but he isn't in the list.

[Nox]

At the same price, who would you choose to build a franchise.

 

Trout: 5 tools guy (10 WAR season)

 

Harper: Gamer, 8/8 power

 

Machado: Stud in a premium position. A rare piece and hard to find.

 

Puig: 5 tools guy (following the Trout steps.)

 

Trout is the best player in baseball. So him.

[Dr. Dinger]

Also, Bogaerts.

 

Don't make me laugh.

[havok24]

Yeah Mike Trout definitely.

[Nox]

Don't make me laugh.

 

Buxton vs. The X man is a pretty legit debate. Along with John Tavares' hispanic cousin, they're probably 2 of the top 3 prospects.

[Angrioter]

Trout. Pretty easy choice for me.

 

what about "stud in a premium position"?

 

Machado is a great piece

[Abomination]

Pretty hard not to go with Trout imo, since every part of his game is dynamic. I'm not sold on Machado like a lot of people are, at least not on him being elite. I want to see how Puig responds when he has his first major slump before I'd even consider taking him over Trout, and same with Harper's knee.

[bzapple]

A little OT but I'm really tired of the media trying to promote Puig as the "next Trout". There is no next Trout. What he's doing right now is unheard of; he's a legendary talent.

 

So yeah, Trout for me.

[Dr. Dinger]

Buxton vs. The X man is a pretty legit debate. Along with John Tavares' hispanic cousin, they're probably 2 of the top 3 prospects.

 

Quiet, I won't let evidence stand in the way of this unstoppable hype train.

[dineke]

Trout or Harper cuz they're white and gritty.

[Boxcar]

Dinger's Rules to Live By #22: Never pass up an opportunity to pimp one of your fantasy teams. Never.

 

Taking a page out of Northof49's playbook. He wouldn't even have picked him had I not taken Rendon the pick before.

[Dr. Dinger]

A little OT but I'm really tired of the media trying to promote Puig as the "next Trout". There is no next Trout. What he's doing right now is unheard of; he's a legendary talent.

 

So yeah, Trout for me.

 

Trout and Puig aren't even really similar players. The Bo Jackson comp, as optimistic as it is, is a way better comp. Plus everybody knows you can't have cross-racial comps.

[Dr. Dinger]

Taking a page out of Northof49's playbook. He wouldn't even have picked him had I not taken Rendon the pick before.

 

I probably would have taken Correa if Nox hadn't persuaded me to Buxton.

[Fearthedoc]

what about "stud in a premium position"?

 

Machado is a great piece

 

Since when is center field not a premium position?

[Nox]

Plus everybody knows you can't have cross-racial comps.

 

Exactly. NJH teaches that in his Internetting 101 class.

[Angrioter]

I probably would have taken Correa if Nox hadn't persuaded me to Buxton.

 

Buxton is in another galaxy compared to Correa.

[TheHurl]

I still believe that if he can stay healthy Harper at least stays even with Trout over his career. But it's going to be hard for him to stay healthy without changing how he plays. Machado has been fantastic but he's never been a great BABIP guy in the minors so to think he's going Rod Carew it out there and carry his numbers with a .370 BABIP just doesn't seem reasonable. I think the BB% will improve and he'll be a good player for his career but I don't think he'll be in the same discussion as Trout or Harper.

[Nox]

Buxton is in another galaxy compared to Correa.

 

Not really.

 

147 wRC+ for a 1994 bday playing SS in A ball is pretty elite.

[Boxcar]

Buxton is in another galaxy compared to Correa.

 

Buxton's been better, but Correa is pretty awesome himself.

[TheHurl]

Ang has been looking to add Puerto Rico to his hatred resume.

[Deadpool]

Trout, but I think that's already been established.

[Angrioter]

Ang has been looking to add Puerto Rico to his hatred resume.

 

I love the puerto ricans. The Beltran's wife is from San Pedro de Macoris, she is friend of my family.

[8D]

At the same price, who would you choose to build a franchise.

 

Trout: 5 tools guy (10 WAR season)

 

Harper: Gamer, 8/8 power

 

Machado: Stud in a premium position. A rare piece and hard to find.

 

Puig: 5 tools guy (following the Trout steps.)

 

No poll? Da fack bro!

Trout.

[Orgfiller]

I still believe that if he can stay healthy Harper at least stays even with Trout over his career. But it's going to be hard for him to stay healthy without changing how he plays. Machado has been fantastic but he's never been a great BABIP guy in the minors so to think he's going Rod Carew it out there and carry his numbers with a .370 BABIP just doesn't seem reasonable. I think the BB% will improve and he'll be a good player for his career but I don't think he'll be in the same discussion as Trout or Harper.

 

I agree with this, IMO Trout and Harper will be really close value-wise (pending health issues of course), one's got easily 5 tools, the other has crazy power and the other 5 above-average at least tools in which he can and probably will improve upon. Machado's great but I think he may be a notch below the first two. Puig's got a SSS and while I would love for my fellow countryman to keep it going he's likely not going to, however he's also fairly young and could really continue to make an impact on the league, so hopefully he still can carry out like Cespedes once his numbers start to drop to realistic measures.

[Dick_Pole]

Miggy...back-to-back triple crown, bros, soon to be back-to-back MVP

[Orgfiller]

Trout can post the same value, if not more. All are controllable for a few years (Puig's under contract so it's a bit different) while Miggy earns the bucks and surely to be near Pujols level when his next FA year comes by.

 

Edit: This was a response to Dick_Pole's post.

[TheHurl]

Miggy...back-to-back triple crown, bros, soon to be back-to-back MVP

 

at the half way point I won't even argue (although he won't be triple crown) he's been the best hitter in baseball by far. The OP did say Long term and I don't see Miggy being the same player at 35 as he is right now and Harper and Trout still won't be reaching their prime. It won't surprise me if one of those two puts up a 12 win season. Harper's 21 year old season was on pace to be much better than Miggy's great 21 year old season just based on offense alone...and we all know how great Trout's age 21 season was.