Tim McCarver: Baseball Quotes
I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.
They won't trade Hamilton. He's had plenty of publicity in Cincy already -- that's a sign, IMO.
If he continues to hit like that for the entire year, sure.
So far in his career, he hasn't.
Nice to see EdE hit it well, though.
I think it's going to largely depend on whether or not he can stick at SS. If he moves over to 2B, he doesn't become as valuable to the Reds unless the Reds trade Phillips before he has 10/5 rights. I don't see that happening, but maybe it will.
Hamilton at 3B could be a possibility I suppose, if he could stick there.
Raise your hand if you think that the Reds should have kept him, put him in LF, paid him $11MM over the past three years, kept him after watching the same offensive production as we saw prior, and stuck it out until he possibly turned a corner in 2012?
Oh, and that's to say that he would be doing the same thing in Cincy while playing the field and not DHing in the Skydome, where he is making all of the impact.
Hoping to change my username to 75769024
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