Cliche prospect comparisons

Latino lefties.

Any comp to Roy Halladay, Ryan Howard, Greg Maddux or Jamie Moyer should result in a caning if you ask me. Might as well compare them to Wakefield or Niekro, people.

He seems to be thrown around a lot.

Adam Dunn thrown around a lot for big guys with a lot of power.
Pedro Martinez for short pitchers who throw hard.
Joe Mauer for every catcher that is big for the position.
Carlos Beltran for toolsy latin american outfielders.
John Lackey for tall right handers.
There are a lot more too. I really hear the Pedroia one for small players too much as mentioned above.

He’s popular for potential 5 tool outfielders.

Fred McGriff for large black first basemen
Randy Johnson for tall white hard-throwing lefties
Omar Vizquel for any glove-based IFA shortstop

the same thing but, my pet-peeve is guys who compare players who bat or pitch from different sides of the plate – so annoying – the actual purpose of the comp is to give a visual and reasonably close similarity of the players skills.

By the way, a few years have gone by and those people who were annoyed with having Chris Young of Arizona and Cam Maybin of the Marlins compared to Cameron – they would now be extatic to have a career like Cameron’s eh?

By the way, take a look at Aroldis Chapman sometime guys and tell me if he isnt extremely similar to Randy Johnson – thesize, stuff, erraticness and left-handedness. The big question there is if Aroldis will have Randy’s DRIVE to suceed? Its that combined with his special talent that made him great. I doubt it but there arent many whoi have even the size and stuff to start with and he does.