This vet thing and Dusty is greatly overblown IMO. Unless Votto tanks in spring training or gets traded for picthing he's the 1st baseman (against RHP anyway) IMO.Originally Posted by Scrap Irony
Everyone likes to say Dusty won't play young guys but honestly, what young guys has he buried? I think the vet thing is much more a function of having worked for brian sabean for so long as it is anything else. Now sabean, that guys loves him some vets.
School's out. What did you expect?
I'd also say that historically, Dusty's rosters have been chock full o' vets/old farts. He just hasn't had all that many youngsters to sit in favor of the geriatric set.
If anything, Dusty will pitch youngsters early and often. She displayed that fine strategy in Chicago. When he was in San Francisco, he used what he had, which more often than not was old old old.
Let's remember that Hatteberg walks a fair amount, Dusty won't be happy with that.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
Clogging up the bases with base runners, yeesh.
Go Gators!
Hobgoblins abound.
School's out. What did you expect?
We can put aside his "Lack of serious power aside". I really have a bigger problem with his batting average driven on base percentage. Ichiro can hit a little bit too, but that doesn't mean I want him getting AB's at 1B for the Reds. The real problem, lack of power aside, is his actually playing 1B. He's played that position at the Major League level for a total of 32 innings the past four seasons and he only has eight appearances at 1B for his Minor League career. Do you really want a 6' 0'' 1B, with that little experiance at the position, receiving throws across the diamond from Edwin Encarnacion?
Jeff Conine/Jorge Cantu made 62 starts, and combined played 537 innings last season as the RH platoon for Hatteberg. I'm just not that comfortable giving 37% of my playing time at 1B next season to a guy with that little experiance actually playing that particular position. I may even be less enthused, if that's possible, by giving Mr. Keppinger the 371 AB's that the RH platoon of Jeff Conine/Jorge Cantu received last season.
I'll say this again. If Mr. Keppinger get's 300 AB's next season, it doesn't even concern me at what position he plays while getting those Ab's, it's going to mean that the Reds have a real problem on their hands.
Can't we just find a way to play the games on paper? Less commercials for performance enhancing drugs on television that way.
"...You just have a wider lens than one game."
--Former Reds GM Wayne Krivsky, on why he didn't fly Josh Hamilton to Colorado for one game.
"...its money well-spent. Don't screw around with your freedom."
--Roy Tucker, on why you need to lawyer up when you find yourself swimming with sharks.
you don'T want Ichiro playing for the Reds really?
School's out. What did you expect?
Something I don't understand about Reds fans, is why when we have a surplus somewhere we need to trade it. Scott Hatteberg has very little trade value, but he is a VERY professional hitter.
The Reds are in St. Louis and it's in the top of the 9th, trailing 4-3. The pitcher's spot, Hopper, and Phillips are due up in the 9th. Isringhausen is on the mound. Scott Hatteberg would be the perfect guy to have up in that situation. He can work a walk, he can get a hit, he's going to make the closer work. If he gets on base, you pinch run with a guy like Freel, Dickerson or whoever is on the bench.
Scott Hatteberg, as a 9th man, is a VERY valuable player in the NL. Much more valuable then anything you will get in return.
Umm, that's not really what I said. Or should that be typed?
"...You just have a wider lens than one game."
--Former Reds GM Wayne Krivsky, on why he didn't fly Josh Hamilton to Colorado for one game.
"...its money well-spent. Don't screw around with your freedom."
--Roy Tucker, on why you need to lawyer up when you find yourself swimming with sharks.
This is exactly what he said when he was asked about the youngsters and playing them when he was questioned about it.
Not really I guess. I think you're worrying too much about it though. I'm certainly not worried about whether or not he can handle the position defensively. The guy is a SS after all.
School's out. What did you expect?
I only like volunteer hitters myself.
Well, I am a worrier by nature.
If by "the guy is a SS after all", you mean he was drafted as one out of high school in 2001, then yea' I agree, he's a SS. The thing is, he really hasn't played SS much during his pro career. Even the Pirates who drafted him immediately moved him to 2B. His 47 appearances at SS (43 games started) for the Reds last season were his first at the Major League level.
Maybe I'm wrong, but when I look at this guy the very definition of replacement player keeps coming up. Now that's not meant to be a slam against him because there's real value there. I just don't believe that value is best utilized by giving him the amount of AB's and playing time we're talking about by making him the RH platoon partner at 1B.
"...You just have a wider lens than one game."
--Former Reds GM Wayne Krivsky, on why he didn't fly Josh Hamilton to Colorado for one game.
"...its money well-spent. Don't screw around with your freedom."
--Roy Tucker, on why you need to lawyer up when you find yourself swimming with sharks.
Joe Randa does have some 1B experiance.
"...You just have a wider lens than one game."
--Former Reds GM Wayne Krivsky, on why he didn't fly Josh Hamilton to Colorado for one game.
"...its money well-spent. Don't screw around with your freedom."
--Roy Tucker, on why you need to lawyer up when you find yourself swimming with sharks.
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