At announcing?Brandon Phillips may become better than Joe Morgan.
Maybe
At sabermetric study?
Perhaps
Playing baseball??
Not close.
At announcing?Brandon Phillips may become better than Joe Morgan.
Maybe
At sabermetric study?
Perhaps
Playing baseball??
Not close.
Another thing that stood out when I looked at those numbers was Morgan's K and BB numbers. The guy still hit for power and average and drew a lot more walks than Phillips would ever dream of. Phillips is good, but if they were both the same age today, I'd take Morgan hands down. I know one thing. I'd take his playing career over his announcing career any day.
Hey sava, if nothing else you've given us all the opportunity to discuss the greatness of Joe Morgan and that needs to be done every so often, lest we forget. So for that, we're all thankful.
Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
There were also plenty of folks who were certain that Castro would be starting in Gonzalez' absence. Didn't happen. Castro is still on the roster for one reason -- to be the backup middle infielder -- and he's barely played, which suggests he's hardly essential to DustyBall. Once Gonzalez returns, Castro has no role on this team.
The Reds seem to be trying to do right by veteran fringe players, so the question becomes, would Castro accept an outright assignment to Louisville (the Reds probably wouldn't mind stashing him as an injury contingency) or would he ask to be released so he could try and catch on somewhere else? I'm just guessing he won't retire since he has a guaranteed deal for this year.
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Last edited by fearofpopvol1; 04-07-2008 at 03:34 PM.
If Votto gets sent out when AGon comes back it's not Castro doing it. It's Votto's poor play that earned the demotion. Dusty can't give Votto and indefinite amount of time in the majors to get it together. He may have to say "we need some production out of 1B, go find your stroke in AAA."
Hatteberg is doiing worse than Votto is. There is no reason to send Votto down, just yet.
This is the time. The real Reds organization is back.
I think if your just going to go the scout route (which IMO is fine) you need to make specific points of where Utley fails as a fielder. You can't just say 'lack of range' and expect to get anywhere in a discussion about fielding.
I've always considered Utley to be an underrated fielder, so I'd like to hear your specific thoughts on where Utley's biggest weak points are.
I think Utley is a fine defender. Dunno if I'd say he's equal to or better than Phillips defensively, but a number of systems like him. He passes the eye test too, imo.
I think fielding percentage is about as useless a stat as is out there, at least when it comes to measuring defensive contributions of individual players.
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