Brandon Laird's Nice Season

Written by Josh W. | 27 May 2010

Brandon Laird had a huge game yesterday, hitting for the cycle and collecting three rbis. This gives him a .305/.356/.531 (.887 OPS) line on the season to date, which is great. Yet these numbers may actually lead us to underestimate his contributions this season. If we go to minorleaguesplits.com, we can see that his luck and park-adjusted line actually gives him a .940 OPS. This doesn't even account for the fact that minorleaguesplits.com is late on updating its statistics, so it doesn't include his monster game yesterday.

Now it's no guarantee that Laird keeps hitting like this, but if he does, expect to see him in the top-half of Yankees prospect (top-30) lists by the end of the season. Unfortunately for Laird, he plays mainly at the corner infield positions, which will be occupied in the majors by A-rod and Tex for years to come. However, he can still have value as either a trade chip or as a utility/platoon type player.

*photo credit: MILB.com player page