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Okay folks, Corey Dickerson is now a Tampa Bay Ray and there are plenty of questions surrounding the fallout. What does this mean for Dickerson? How valuable is he? Which is a nice way of putting “how much of a hit does his stock take leaving Coors”?
Well, outside of copping out with a “no one can say for sure”, the answer is most certainly much closer to a mediocre, league average hitter. In 2014 his triple slash away from Coors Field was .252/.305/.431, and in 2015 it was .257/.272/.453. His ISO fell from .321 to .178 on the road in 2014, and in 2015 it fell from .303 to .196. Last year he struck out eight times more than he walked on the road, whereas at Coors he only struck out two times more. He has a comfort level at Coors Field, and now that's gone.
There is also the lingering issue of his foot injury, which isn’t going to go away by heading to Tampa Bay. I don’t doubt that he will be able to adjust his approach as he gets acclimated to his new digs, but you don’t want to pay the current price for this. As he readjusts and learns to pick up pitch breaks in a new home park and all I'd wager he settles into being a .275-.280 hitter with a decent chance at 20 homers. Don’t let him fall off the face of the earth on draft day, but his current ADP of 76 according to NFBC is over his head as a Ray.
