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Roberts Love from BP

Nate Silver has a subscriber-only article at Baseball Prospectus about players having unexpectedly good or bad starts, and Brian Roberts is headliner among the profiled players.  Silver is remarkably optimistic, essentially saying that since Roberts did everything well besides hitting for power until this year, he's got a very solid base of skills to build on, and that his year probably isn't really a fluke.

He thinks Roberts will be "among the 15-20 best players in baseball going forward" [it's not clear if he means this year or for the next few years, but it sounds like the latter], and, even more optimistically, mentions that "the precedent that I think works reasonably well here is Jim Edmonds" a player with solid all-around skills whose power blossomed late.

I love Roberts, but this kind of mainstream enthusiasm always makes me nervous.  I hope this isn't some kind of BP/stathead jinx in the works.

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