But he also has a HELL of an arm which would be a waste at 2b. I like 3b for based on what Ive heard of his skills.

but age isn’t a bad proxy, since it works for both developmental time and physical maturity.

admittedly, age may be a weakly correlated proxy within the range of 1 year for phsyical development (as compared to a scout or doctor examining the player), so developmental time alone might be the better thing to look at (since it’s a better proxy than age for what the more important category may be). at the same time, it’s imperfect even at this measure, too: how do you measure, for instance, a player who didn’t start playing baseball until junior year of high school or something? it’s inappropriate to use their graduating class as the proxy, but it’s not really accurate to say they’re as advanced as, say, a little leaguer who’s only played baseball for two years (kind of obvious).

anyway, i guess my only point is that there are other factors involved that i’d want to know (physical developmental and actual years playing baseball), so completely dismissing one of these factors doesn’t seem fair. at the same time, i’m not saying you’re not using the most accurate singular measure in the majority of cases.

Haven’t you heard?