Christian Marrero a better prospect than B. Allen?

[beck72]

Looking at some stats, Christian Marrero had outproduced Brandon Allen in AA, hitting .308/.348/.501 in 2 levels. He also is a lefty bat and plays 1b. Did his development allow the sox to trade Allen for Tony Pena?

 

Marrero is only 5 months older than Allen. I haven't heard much about Marrero. What do people know about him? Is he a possible replacement for Konerko?

[Kenny Hates Prospects]

I'll be cautiously optimistic about Marrero, but I wouldn't say he's a better prospect than Allen at all. Allen put up better numbers including a lot more walks and fewer K's over more AB at higher levels in the minors. Allen has tons of raw power and I've never heard that about Marrero, although Marrero does have pop. Also, both are lefty sticks, but comparing the two, Marrero killed RHP (.328/.372/.529) while Allen did very well (.283/.359/.498) against RHP, but the big difference is versus LHP. Allen hit .317/.392/.500 against lefties while Marrero only hit .262/.299/.441.

 

Marrero needs to up his BB rate and improve against LHP to be viewed as an everyday position prospect IMO. He's only 22 though so maybe he does that. Right now he looks like a bench player/PH vs. RHP prospect to me.

 

[JPN366]

Looking at some stats, Christian Marrero had outproduced Brandon Allen in AA, hitting .308/.348/.501 in 2 levels. He also is a lefty bat and plays 1b. Did his development allow the sox to trade Allen for Tony Pena?

 

Marrero is only 5 months older than Allen. I haven't heard much about Marrero. What do people know about him? Is he a possible replacement for Konerko?

 

He's 5 months younger, but anyway, I wrote a blog about him on Future Sox. I really liked what I saw out of him.

Edited October 8, 2009 by JPN366