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It has been a rough start for two of the the three most valuable players on the Diamondbacks last year. While Corbin Carroll has started off like he had just lined a pitch down into the right-field corner, both Ketel Marte and Geraldo Perdomo have been slow out of the gate. However,
it’s a marathon, not a sprint, and it would be foolish to extrapolate a sample of a mere dozen games to a whole season. Or is it? That’s what this week’s poll is about. Last year, this trio were head and shoulders above anyone else on the team, led by Perdomo who was worth at least seven wins by both bWAR and fWAR.
I’d say it is likely those three will again reach the finish line as the team’s three best players. But which one will come out on top? Carroll has an early lead, but coming into today’s game he has a BABIP of .346, fifty-five points better than league average of .291 (perhaps surprisingly given his speed, Carroll’s career BABIP is only .295). Marte, meanwhile, is below average by almost the same amount at .235, and Perdomo is even more unfortunate, at just .143. Part of that may be, as noted in today’s GDT, his poor launch angles. But the lowest BABIP among qualified batters last year was a hundred point higher at .243 (you know it’s Geno!). So Perdomo will regress, in a positive way.
Hence we come to this week’s poll. Which of the three do you think will end up on top at the end of the year? Or will someone else sneak up on the inside and surpass all of them? We are probably using the normal average of bWAR and fWAR, though for position players these tend to be closer than for pitchers. Please explain your choice in the comments. That way, you will have proof when it comes to gloating about how right you were at the end of the year.
