Toe Nash said:Well, I put out some statistical reasons to not expect a huge drop-off this year, but yes, a few random players who were famously flash-in-the-pans over 35 years is a good counterexample.
Nava could certainly struggle. I doubt it's much more likely than any other 31-year-old. It seems much less likely than the chance of Sizemore being injured. You're working from the same info as me here so whatever, it seems you really want to disagree.
The only thing I want to disagree with is the assumption that he's going to repeat what he did last year. He's not that guy. I do think he's going to be a perfectly acceptable platoon player. High OBP, not so much with the power, decent enough defense at the corners. He leads off against righties at least until JBJ is ready to take that job full time, and if that doesn't happen until 2015, I'm totally cool with that.