Can I get excited over Berry Yet?

[mjsb2]

Well it's still a drop-off from last year, unless his numbers last year are unsustainable.

How many catches in the history of the game regularly posted OPS+ over 140?

Yes, what he did was unsustainable, unless you believe Alex will go down as one of the top 3 or 5 greatest catchers of all time.

A 120 OPS+, somewhere in that range, is all that could reasonably expected of him, and he's doing that.

 

[mjsb2]

Expected is all relative. You might expect different numbers than what someone else expected.

Hence why I said reasonable.

No reasonable person would have expected Avila to repeat last season.

 

[Mitchrapp]

The great Johnny bench was at 126 OPS+ in his career. So anything close to that and we have something.