I feel like Stoeten's been in the same camp as Law of being a bit negative on Biggio this year (though he seems to have shifted from humorous to really negative and defensive in general).
For me I think it has a lot to do with people who take a traditional and inflexible view on player development as a straight line... player A hit at ____ average in rookie ball ergo he will be this level of player at the major league level. Same guys who give up on a player after a major league season because the sample size is big enough and they will never improve. Inability to accept player development arcs outside of conventional wisdom.
Biggio has always been a guy at lower levels that prospect evaluators never really liked a lot. I think a lot of prospect raters who were down on him will have really hard time accepting that he bucked the trend and actually improved as he moved up the ladder... tough for them to admit they were wrong.
But as guys like Bautista have shown, it's not the norm, but some players do improve later in their career, even in some cases at the MLB level. I think the Jays need to be really careful with a couple guys on their roster who haven't dominated at the MLB level but could be late bloomers.
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