A Man. A Legend. A Way of Life.

JP Arencibia is really good. That is all.



Ok, wait, no it's not. You know I can't make a post that short. Let me share with you the research of poster robertdudak at Batter's Box:

(edit: so the format runs the stats wider than my column can stand. I encourage you to go to the thread I linked above and see the comparison for yourself - I'm not gonna do the work to re-type all this in a form that fits the column width)

Age	Lg	Lev	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
20	NWL	A-	57	214	198	22	53	11	0	8	25	0	0	13	51	0.268	0.318	0.444	0.762
21	FSL	A+	88	285	272	27	68	20	0	6	45	0	1	11	68	0.250	0.281	0.390	0.670
22	CAL	A+	117	506	448	71	124	27	2	29	80	0	3	47	83	0.277	0.344	0.540	0.884
23	TXL	AA	31	127	114	18	43	11	0	7	21	0	0	13	18	0.377	0.441	0.658	1.099
23	PCL	AAA	94	398	358	54	122	22	5	16	69	1	3	37	57	0.341	0.405	0.564	0.969
		total	387	1530	1390	192	410	91	7	66	240	1	7	121	277	0.295	0.353	0.513	0.865
Age	Lg	Lev	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
21	NYP	A-	63	249	228	31	58	17	1	3	25	0	0	14	56	0.254	0.309	0.377	0.686
22	FSL	A+	59	262	248	38	78	22	0	13	62	0	0	11	46	0.315	0.344	0.560	0.904
22	EL	AA	67	275	262	32	74	14	0	14	43	0	0	7	55	0.282	0.302	0.496	0.798
23	PCL	AAA	116	500	466	67	110	32	1	21	75	0	1	26	114	0.236	0.284	0.444	0.728
24	PCL	AAA	95	420	379	71	115	32	1	31	79	0	0	34	77	0.303	0.360	0.639	0.998
		total	400	1706	1583	239	435	117	3	82	284	0	1	92	348	0.275	0.318	0.508	0.826

Two minor league careers, the bottom player is JP Arencibia. When you consider the only real setback for the second player relative to the first was when he was in AAA a year earlier than the upper player (and as I've often argued, as much as a year too soon). without that mistep, Arencibia compares favorably in almost every regard to...

Mike Piazza.

Like I said, JP Arencibia is REALLY good.