Hamilton being sent to AA

[19braves77]

I have always liked Juan Pierre.

He had more hits last year with the White Sox than anyone on last year's Phillies roster. Took a contract for 800,000 in a utility role with smile. That says a lot.

He's outplayed Shane Victorino this season.

Heard Reds are interested in him at the trade deadline.

[Steve4192]

There was a reason he was moved from CF.

The reason was Matt Kemp was better at it. That doesn't mean Pierre was a bad fielder. The Dodgers just chose to take the CF with the weakest arm and stick him in LF.

I've always considered him to be a more than adequate flycatcher with a less than adequate arm. As far as converting batted balls into outs goes, he is perfectly serviceable in CF. Sure, he's not going to do you any favors when it comes to preventing baserunners from advancing, but in the grand scheme of things, creating outs is FAR more important than controlling the running game.

[redsmetz]

Here's a clip of Hamilton's inside the park home run from last night's game. Eric Davis was there and watch him just shake his head when Hamilton comes into the dugout.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/ey...epark-home-run

[Scrap Irony]

Here's a clip of Hamilton's inside the park home run from last night's game. Eric Davis was there and watch him just shake his head when Hamilton comes into the dugout.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/ey...epark-home-run

From the article:

According to Baseball Prospectus' Larry Granillo, who tracks such things on his Tater Trot Tracker at BP, Hamilton rounded the bases in 13.8 seconds. It's the fastest he's ever timed a player circling the bases.

He also jogged home from third base.

I'm guessing Hamilton leads the entire minor leagues in head shaking and incredulous smiles.