Ian Stewart

[Durango53]

At the age of 19, and less than two years removed from his high school graduation, Ian Stewart has been called a left-handed-hitting Scott Rolen. He has been compared to Oakland's Eric Chavez. Both were high school phenoms in California, where Stewart set single-season Orange County home run and RBI records.

Even Vladimir Guerrero's name gets brought up in assessing Stewart, who has been proclaimed the future of the Colorado Rockies franchise.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/rockies/article/0,1299,DRMN_19_3673274,00.html
This dude is going to be a STUD......

I think it is great he is getting compared to some great players in MLB right now but I think he is going to make his own name....

[Durango53]

He doesn't have to say much about his offense. The bat speaks on its own. After hitting .317 with 10 home runs and 43 RBI in his 57-game pro debut with rookie Casper in 2003, he hit .319 with 30 home runs and 101 RBI at Class A Asheville in 2004.

This off-season, Baseball America ranked Stewart the fourth-best player in minor-league baseball.


"The last player I had who would be similar (to Stewart) was (Vladimir) Guerrero," said Rockies director of player development Bill Geivett, who was the farm director in Montreal when Guerrero was coming up. "Not the type of player they are, but the elite level of their ability is similar and so is the work ethic.

"People tell me, 'Good season,' " said Stewart, without a hint of arrogance, "and I think, 'What did they expect me to do?' . . . I expect to go in and put up numbers."

Pro baseball has, after all, been Stewart's ambition forever.

STUD I say. Remember this name for everyone will be like Walker and Helton when they first saw him. When Walker told Helton he just saw his replacement and Jason Jennings walked off the field when Stewart jack a bp ball in the third deck of Coors saying he saw enough. :thumbsup: