Since you guys love talking about size, Pedroias first 30 games were abysmal in both defense and offense, look it up. Jose Altuve's OPS was 700 in his first 3 seasons. Madrigal deserves more time to develop just like any other player that comes up. Eloy, Moncada, Tim, Robert have all had stretches in their first couple of years that had us pulling out our hair, yet never even seen the hate close enough to this.
Moncada had 300 strikeouts in his first 900 atbats and hit a whopping 715 OPS.
Anderson had a 730 OPS in his first 100 games.
Paul Konerko had a 600 OPS in his first 80 games.
Are they stronger than Madrigal? Yeah I am not going to argue that at all, but Madrigal's OPS in his only 40 games played is 745. Madrigal is also surrounded by strength and conditioning coaches, theres no reason to think hes at his strength ceiling. I would be happy with an .800 OPS from him, especially if he shores up the defense.
On that note, going back to Pedroia, I love this scouting report during his draft year:
Thats pretty much a Madrigal scouting report.
His defense has been really pissing me off just as much as anyone, but its not worth writing him off because of it. I am going to give him a couple of years before I grab the pitch fork and make short jokes all day.