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So he played everywhere in the outfield last season
RF/CF/LF............ L/L

Trajectory 2
Contact 9 (10 without blues)
Power 117-120
Speed 10
Arm Strength 6-7
Fielding 8
Error Resistance 7-8

Tough Out - 15.1 K% in career
Firstball Hitter - .387 BA from 2012-2014
Stealing 4 - His career SB% sits 76%

Pull Hitter - ?? Dead pull right field home run hitter http://www.fangraphs.com/spraycharts.aspx?playerid=7859&position=OF&type=battedball&pid2=7859&ss1=2014&se1=2014&ss2=2014&se2=2014&cht1=hittype&cht2=battedball&vs1=ALL&vs2=ALL

He seems borderline for Clutch 4, but I'll stick with the abilities that I listed... unless you guys have other opinions on it

I'd consider making him a LF first, since thats his best defensively
RF he's OK, pretty much just barely average
CF he's pretty atrocious, so to me thats his 3rd position and up to you if he really deserves it at all. I wish you could make RF better than CF...

CON is a solid 9 after blues, UNTIL you look at his career away from Coors, where he's hit just .243 (.335 at home). I'd consider an 8 here.
power 115-120 (I'd go with 115, 2/3rds of his homers are at Coors [18 of 28])
speed 10 works, hes a 20 steal/full season kind of guy
arm is maybe 7-8...he still has a positive number (0.3) for FG overall, but yeah scouts rate it low.
fielding 8-9, sure
E Res yeah 7 or 6 even, he's a few pts below average, and defensively OF don't have a ton of range in that error rate, heh

I wouldn't say stealing 4 - league average is expected to be 72-75%, so 76% doesn't do it for me
I like first ball, but im only seeing .356 lifetime...still good enough maybe?
I don't like tough out either...he's walked like 40 times in his whole career? And has batted .212 with two strikes.
RISP numbers are pretty close to career numbers so I'd say no on clutch. RISP and 2 outs, Late + Close, he dips way down below average

Blackmon had a real crazy good career year, but I am scared it was a flash in the pan.

Trajectory 2
Contact 8
Power 115
Speed 10
Arm Strength 8
Fielding 8
Error Resistance 7

Good Infield Hitter

From looking at his career BA, Firstball Hitter doesn't quite break the threshold for me then. Since he's starts in RF the most, I'll make that his primary, and switch LF to secondary and CF to tertiary

EDIT: I will be giving him firstball hitter

I ended up giving him Firstball Hitter so he'd have some sort of a hitter ability