"I can make all the stadiums rock."
-Air Supply
Just to add to the above list.
Justin Turner is filling in the utility slot for the mets to the tune of 341/364/415 in 45 at bats at the age of 28.
Turner is also the rare minor league second baseman who actually has a big league career. Granted it's as a utility player, but pension time is pension time.
For Ramon Hernandez the Orioles got Ryan Freel, Brandon Waring and Turner and it looks like Turner who they lost off waivers to the mets was the only thing of value they got besides salary relief.
"Even a bad day at the ballpark beats the snot out of most other good days. I'll take my scorecard and pencil and beer and hot dog and rage at the dips and cheer at the highs, but I'm not ever going to stop loving this game and this team and nobody will ever take that away from me." Roy Tucker October 2010
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement. --- Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
Didi Gregorius remains on fire.
He obviously isn't nearly as good as he has shown so far, but after the game tonight where he went 2-3 with a walk and double he is hitting .422/.469/.733.
Let's add in Rosales, finally healthy enough for a short stretch anyway of every day play. 44ABs: .318/.400/.477/.877. Always liked the kid; I wish him well.
Let's add Chris Valiaka: .219/.261/.344/.601
on second thought, let's not. Apparently he fractured his wrist other day, which is a real tough break for a guy finally getting a shot. Of course, if he continued to hit like he was, his shot was probably going to end soon regardless of injury.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
Is Gookie Dawkins still playing? Can we add him too?
Cincinnati Reds: Farm System Champions 2022
I think we need to add in Bo Hart and John Gall. And Stubby Clapp.
[Phil ] Castellini celebrated the team's farm system and noted the team had promising prospects who would one day be great Reds -- and then joke then they'd be ex-Reds, saying "of course we're going to lose them". #SellTheTeamBob
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
[Phil ] Castellini celebrated the team's farm system and noted the team had promising prospects who would one day be great Reds -- and then joke then they'd be ex-Reds, saying "of course we're going to lose them". #SellTheTeamBob
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
REDREAD (05-10-2013)
I'm sure Towers is feeling nice right now. But let's be honest, Gregorius still has the same ceiling he had before: .280 with 40 walks and 15 home runs to go along with plus defense. He just may get there a little sooner.
I wrote about Gregorius last October at MinorLeagueBall.com and noted that if he could just settle on one approach at the plate rather than the 3 or 4 he seemed to use, it would benefit him. Of course, my timeline did seem a little bit off:
So what do we make of all this?
That is going to depend on what kind of player he wants to become. Right now, he has several different approaches in his game (the make-contact approach, the two-strike approach, the power approach). I think he needs to settle on one style, decide whether he wants to focus on contact or on power. The frequent shifts in emphasis and indecision could potentially be holding him back.
Gregorius will be just 23-years-old for 2013, so there is still development time on the clock. If he adopts the power approach, I suspect he'll need a full year of Triple-A to make it work. If he focuses on being a singles hitter and looks for contact, I think he'll need less time.
REDREAD (05-10-2013)
After his unfortunate home run the other day, as of now Juan Francisco has 83 PA, the usual low walk rate, a high strikeout rate (he had one in 2012 too), a UZR rating of 0.4.
His slash line is .295/.337/.500/.837.
I post this not to compliment Francisco so much, but to compliment the Braves. As someone who has been a fan of Francisco, I think the Braves understand this player well and are using him very effectively.
TRF (05-10-2013)
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