[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ '06 Baseball Rookies, Why are they valued the way they are?

[marlinmania]

Can anyone tell me why there are 5-10 2006 Rookies, whose RC's are consistantly valued higher than Hanley Ramirez and Justin Verlander, who were voted the best rookie in each league respectively?

I'm currently looking at '06 Ud Ovation but have seen this as a trend in all sets:

Ramirez bv 10.00
Verlander bv 12.00

Zimmerman bv 20.00
Papelbon bv 15.00
Hong-Chih Kuo bv 15.00
Liriano bv 15.00
Weaver bv 15.00
Billingsley bv 15.00
Melky Cabrera bv 15.00
Johjima bv 15.00

Does anyone else think this is strange? Can someone explain this phenomena to me?

Sean

[tj2373]

It is part regional, who is willing to pay the asking price (see ebay for this), how good the player is no matter what round or # pick he was in the year he was drafted, how well he has played since the draft, how quickly he went thru the minors and once he got to the majors. Baseball is all about development. Look at Melky Cabrera of the Yankees. They brought him up in 04 or 05 and threw him to the wolves in a series in Boston and played terrible in center field. Sent him back down to the minors. This past year he played extremely well playing almost everyday. It all depends on the player and how hard they work not just in the minors but once they get to the majors and what they do during the off season. The best example of that is DEREK JETER. One word describes him: CONSISTENTCY. Day in, Day out plays for team, not individual. And he started out terrible in the minors but once again depends on the player and how much they want to make it to and in the majors.