First, over the last several years, including that one, he has not been in the top quintile of IFFB% — and I would think that would be a good measure of the rate at which players are truly popping up — which leads me to think there was always some confirmation bias at work here.

Second, while I do think there were some reasons to be concerned with his swing and approach going forward in 2009, a lot of was part of a larger concern with the organizational hitting philosophy. This was punctuated by the seeming lesson of Hank Blalock’s transformation from promising young hitter to free swinging failure. I now doubt that approach was the most significant cause of Blalock’s decline, but as a fan of the team, I was dreading anything like that happening with Kinsler. It hasn’t, and overall, I find the team’s approach at the plate to be more pleasing.

kind of suck as a writer. For what it’s worth, though, my main point was just to link what I thought was an interesting article. I was mostly just using Kinsler as a tie-in for the Rangers.

Do you mean long sentences? That’s not the same thing.

forgot UZR doesn’t track ARM for infielders. Sucks

and say he puts up the same numbers during those 6 weeks like he has the rest of the year, he is in the conversation