Dyson seems to have become way overrated.  He is a pinch hitting and defensive specialist.  Cain OTOH might be awesome.

 

Dyson seems to have become way overrated.  He is a pinch hitting and defensive specialist.  Cain OTOH might be awesome.

Guy has more or less averaged 3 WAR the last two years and did so even though his playing time was basically half a season.  He SHOULD be playing somewhere full time to see what he can do. 

 

And I doubt he's overrated.  He seems very under-rated to me.

 

Dyson seems to have become way overrated.  He is a pinch hitting and defensive specialist.  

 

You mean the sort that WAR might not be the best single stat to use when evaluating?

 

Dyson seems to have become way overrated.  He is a pinch hitting and defensive specialist.  Cain OTOH might be awesome.

Cain is obviously way better, and given equal health/aging, Cain will make way more money and have a longer career.

 

But that doesn't mean Dyson is a slouch.  He's kind of like the Royals outfield version of Eduardo Escobar right now.  He's a few runs worse at hitting, almost entirely in the SLG department, but he more than makes up for it with consistently plus base running and defense.

 

The knock on him is that he is basically just a platoon hitter so far in MLB, although he's left handed so he could get the greater share of starts in a platoon.  And his pinch hitting/running and defensive work would still be valuable even on those days he's not starting.