Determining what a player can do is always a tricky task. The great thing is that if you do it accurately, you’ll look like a genius, and if you make the wrong call, nobody will call you on it, so long as you sounded like you knew what you were talking about. Hopefully I’ll accomplish the former as I weigh in on Carlos Quentin’s 2012 campaign.
There are a number of factors that we can measure analytically to make an educated guess as to what Quentin will do with the Daddies next season. We could look at the ballpark change (U.S. Cellular Field vs. PETCO Park), his BABIP, his batted ball data, the difference in his competition, or we could ignore these things and chock up his success or failure next season to the cliche “change of scenery,” saying that he will succeed or fail because he was either sad or happy in Chicago (this would save me a lot of work). Let’s assess the ballpark situation.
PETCO is notorious for destroying offense and making pit...
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