The nominees for most disappointing player of the year

I would really like to see 3 rookie batters named Matt added to this list.  Two-thirds of the way through the season I vowed to avoid all rookie batters named Matt after enduring tours with these three:

Matt LaPorta
Matt Joyce*
Matt Wieters

*I’m not sure if Joyce is technically a rookie, but I feel comfortable calling him a rookie batter based on his time in the show this year.

I don’t really think that LaPorta has been disappointed. If I were him I would have stopped trying completely. There’s no reason Trevor Crowe or Andy Marte should have been called up instead of him.

Jim Callis has to be pretty sad seeing Moustakas on that list.

I agree with Miller. I admit I do not have the greatest knowledge of minor league baseball, but I doubt there has ever been a prospect as good as Miller who was derailed by such an odd injury. Dude hasn’t been truly healthy since 2006.

I guess you left him off the list because he’s been in the majors more than the minors this year, but you’d have to say David Price has been a huge disappointment this season. 

After all the hype, his performance in Sept ‘08 and in the playoffs, and being named the #2 overall prospect by Baseball America, a lot was expected of him, but his ERA is over 5.00 and he’s got only three Quality Starts in 14 outings.  That’s got to be among the most disappointing prospects in the game, and a big part of the reason the rays aren’t contending for the AL East like people thought they would.

GO ROYALS!!!  Dayton Moore’s draft process is awesome!!