Can Of Corn

Minor League Power, Part II

by Dayn Perry

A little something to take your mind off the forthcoming cinematic pantheon-dweller...

In last week's Can, I took a gander at the minor league power indicators of some of today's most potent hitters in an effort to find the most accurate power indicators at the minor league level. The study pool (Group A) comprised the 25 active leaders in slugging percentage who had logged at least 3,000 ABs in the majors. The group included such heavies as Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez and Vladimir Guerrero.

This time around, we'll look at Group B--those that, despite strong minor-league SLGs, have been at least vaguely disappointing in the bigs. To populate Group B, I included anyone with a career minor league SLG of at least .490, at least a 10 percent decline in their SLG in the majors (you'll recall that almost all of today's elite power hitters posted higher SLGs at the major league level) and at least 1,750 ABs in the majors.

Once again, here's a brief glossary of the statistics used in this study:

MLB SLG - The hitter's slugging percentage at the major league level.

Mi SLG - The hitter's minor league slugging percentage.

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