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Nick Hundley is the definition of a Coors Field beneficiary. He’ll be 32 this year and has spent most of his career mired in mediocrity on the Padres. if you just blindly look at his line – 389 plate appearances with 45 runs, 10 homers, 43 RBIs, 5 steals, and a .301 average – you might think he's easily in line to be a top five catcher.
You'll want to pump the brakes a bit, but he does have things going for him. Now the Wilin Rosario experiment is officially over in Colorado and the inconsequential Dustin Garneau is Hundley’s backup for 2016. His 2015 was cut short by a cervical strain, but all of this should mean that Hundley sees plenty of ABs.
Here’s what you really want to know though: that season long stat-line hides an even prettier set of numbers. Hundley’s numbers at Coors in 2015: 211 plate appearances with 31 runs, 7 home runs, 33 RBIs, 4 steals, and a .355 average. The .396 home BABIP is unsustainable and will regress, but we’re all familiar with what Coors can do and a job there in 2016 holds similar promise for a cheap source of power with an average that won't hurt.
