Troy Tulowitzki is the next Derek Jeter

My love for Tulo is undeniable. I coveted him in the GOI fantasy pay league draft getting him in the 5th round. After a terribly slow start, I finally dropped him in June because he was hitting in the low .200 and peer pressure from people in the league. I did replace him with Ben Zobrist, but it was never the same. Losing Tulo from my team was like the Cubs losing Wood and Derosa. The leadership, the intangibles, the clutchiness was gone from my team and it was never the same.

Tulo is a true leader on the baseball field and backs it up with great hitting, a decent glove at short, and tremendous knowledge of the game. His 2 full years in the bigs(2007 and 2009) the Rocks have gone to the playoffs, something they had only done once before the Tulo era. I will go as far as to say that he should be the NL MVP this season. Sure Pujols has superior stats, but look at the second half performance of each player. Tulo is OPSing 1.040 since the break leading his team on an amazing 17 of 18 winning streak and a chance to win the NL West. 32 homers, 20 steals, 102 runs, 92 RBI, above average SS, and 73 walks.

I'm starting to think that Baseball Prospectus kinda sucks at predicting things. This being my first day looking at their advanced statistics, I have seen many inconsistencies in the predictive abilities of the system. None of the breakout stars this year were predicted by BP. They had Tulo forcasted at no more than 18 homers in the next 7 years. Given his 32 bombs this year, and a 415 foot home run average, that prediction seems very conservative.

You can bet your savings that I will have Tulo on my team next year, the whole year, cause my predictive abilities tell me that Tulo at just 24 years old is the next big thing. 15 years from now, we may get nauseous at ESPN continually rubbing off Troy Tulowitzki