I hate when people present themselves in this way.Its not being partial or being impatient.
It's about track records and trends.
Arias has a two year, 1000 PA track record of basically non performance, with a few 50 PA sprees of hot hitting sprinkled in. 1000 PAs is hardly a small sample size.
And whenever he is in one of his hot streaks, often powered by unsustainable underlying factors, we hear from some so called experts.
Now we here about Rocchios first 170 PAs compared to Arias first 170.
Rocchio has to play better, but its not like the bar is set very high. Arias' wRC+ stands at 79 in 462 PAs. One short hot streak would eclipse that quickly.
I just laugh at the bashing. I've heard it many times before. I heard it during Gimenez first year here, when I said that he was by far the best MIF player/prospect in the org and better than any prospect we had at any position. I heard it when I immediately said that Brantley would become an impact player.
I heard it when I said that Naquins rookie year was a fluke and we should trade him at his highest value.
Just give it all some time, and we shall see.
Give us your misses too.