Re: Lefty off the bench
- From: Wayback1918 <wayback1918@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:45:38 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 30, 9:34 pm, Gnork <gn...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 30, 4:46 pm, Dave Bismo <bi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:36:54 GMT, "Srgnt Billko" <f...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
How many lefties do we need coming off the bench - especially since most of
our righties hit righties pretty well ?
You can't play Crisp, Ellsbury and Drew all at once so there is a good
chance that one of them would be a lefty off the bench.
Great point. I think they want one lefty who can play 1B, just
because Youk and Lowell are righties. This way, on the rare times
they rest a corner infielder, they can do it against a righty and gain
a platoon advantage. But for the outfield, they'd surely prefer a
righty, since they can do the same thing with Drew/Ellsbury (give them
their rest days against LHP and play the righty backup). (That's
assuming that they trade Coco Crisp; otherwise, he can be a lefty or a
righty off the bench.)
Not if they want one who can actually hit. On a good team Crisp is
best suited as a 5th outfielder. That's a guy who can pinch run, come
in for defense at times, finish up blowouts, and once in a while start
a game. He gets maybe 150 plate appearances a year. Coco will make
about 5 mil this year. Instead of the crazy pipe dreams of a few
thinking they could get another team's best prospect(s) for Coco, they
should just hope they can get another team to take on his full salary
in exchange for some minor league non-entity. Better yet would be to
trade him along with paying a nice chunk of his salary for a good back-
up catcher. He OPS+ average for his 2 years with Boston is about 80.
To get anything serviceable for him without paying part of his salary
they would need to find a stupid GM who wants a CF or take back
someone else's overpaid guy in return.- Hide quoted text -
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I'm not sure where the 'official' job description for the fourth and
fifth outfielders comes from.....
As to who might like Crisp?
I'd say Baltimore, Minnesota, Oakland, Atlanta and Cincinnati are
(or should be) looking to up grade CF.
I would think Colorado, San Diego, Pittsburg, Chicago Cubs,
Washington and possibly Philadephia would all be wise to have a viable
alternative to the CF ESPN lists as #1 on their depth chart as well.
But why be in hurry to dump him if you don't have anything better?
.
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