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Minor Achievements: Offensive stars Snider and LaPorta

By Jason Grey
ESPN.com

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Most already know that the concept of "Age vs. Level" is extremely important when evaluating a prospect. For example, a 23-year-old dominating at Triple-A is markedly different from a 23-year-old destroying low Class A. Even though the numbers may not always jump off the stat sheet, any time we can use a variation of the phrase "despite being the youngest in the league" when we're talking about a prospect, that's a good thing. For example, for the following player I can say, "He hit .316 at t ...

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