Dojji
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Consider the alternatives. Among the free agent SS possibles, Nick Green fits right in and is equal or superior to all of them in the skills department with the possible exception of Scutaro, who is a 34 year old Type A coming off an unsustainable career year, and Tejeda, who is noticeably declining. That doesn't mean that Green is any kind of good. It means that our options are so universally bad, that under the circumstances, it doesn't do to let emotionalism blind ourselves to an option that might be less bad than most. And don't shed too many tears over Alex Gonzalez. He had a good few games with the Red Sox but there's NWIH he repeats it next year over a full season, and he's older himself, with known knee and back problems that keep him out of the lineup frequently, so I can certainly understand exactly why Theo let him walk and would have done the same myself.
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I could go for Tejada.
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Sure, he's better than Green, but don't kid yourself into thinking that that means Scutaro's actually good. Scutaro has a .721 career OPS Green has a .660 OPS How much is that extra .061 really worth? Is it worth a first round pick?
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Nick Green has a career-positive range rating at shortstop. His problem is his hands, not his range or athleticism. Green got pigeonholed as a 2B because he first broke in there while playing on the same team as Rafael Furcal and then again with the Rays while Julio Lugo was still at least not so totally awful that you would play a Glovey McNoodlebat shortstop ahead of him. Everytime he's gotten a chance to play SS he's looked good there. Small sample sizes are prone to distortions, but they aren't useless. I'll take Nick Green's 100 games of 12.1 UZR/150 on a low-cost flier over Scutaro's -2.9 in a much bigger sample plus the contract and loss of a draft pick. Even if Green regresses by a lot, he's still a better option for the price.
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Green > Scutaro. Scutaro's bat isn't enough to make up for Green's significant defensive advantage.
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gotta put Nick Green on that list -- I'd prefer him to most of the players on it. At least Green is an above average defender and put up a career average year offensively last year.
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Elvis Andrus is pretty good too.
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Jimmy Rollins?
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Not surprising.
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Yeah, because Lincecum's cost controlled contract is really compared to halladay's fairly expensive one, and a 25 year old Lincecum is no more valuable than 32 year old Halladay. Right. I mean I don't even disagree with you, but could you please at least try not to make you analogies a total suck orgy?
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I guess that's fair, although in fairness to Hulett the Royals are one of those "veteran lover" teams -- witness them struggling through the entire year with Mike Jacobs' uninspiring bat while Kila Ka'aihue smothered in Omaha.
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Well, I went into this saying he's probably minor league filler, but I have no idea why being intrigued by a middle infielder with a .390 career minor league OBP is so laughable. If the season started today, Lowrie and Hulett would be our SS and backup INF respectively. Theo's probably working the phones frantically to make sure it doesn't actually come to that, but on the other hand both of them seem to have attractive skillsets. It'd make us all uncomfortable to go with that combination, but it probably wouldn't be a disaster. And you yourself know better than to judge a guy on 75 big league plate appearances. As for Natale, the guy has Youks-like discipline. He's also clearly not challenged by AAA pitchers. If he could cover 1B at least adequately I think he could be a very pleasant surprise -- it's a pity he'll never, ever get the chance to prove it here.
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Well, I am the same guy who wants to see Jeff Natale tried in the big leagues as a backup 1B to see if his plate discipline translates. Worst case scenario you're out a bench slot and a few thousand.
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Actually I am intrigued. Hulett is interesting. I suspect he's just minor league filler, though, especially because he doesn't really have the defensive chops to be a full-time SS. That OBP did grab my attention however.
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I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and say Favre. He's had a target on his back that tells defensemen to kill him and hope for a fumble or turnover the whole time. No matter how good your offensive line is you're going to get beat up out there. In descending rate of of awesome: Favre/Marshall (football is a violent, violent game) Jarvis (Hockey's the only game that actually allows brawls, and even the dead-run nature of the sport itself takes a harsh toll on the body) Ripken (Playing most of it at SS doesn't make up for physical abuse Favre and Jarvis took playing) Green (It's freaking basketball, someone touches you they blow a whistle)
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Boras said in so many words that some other team offered Teixeira more money than he accepted to play in New York. Now I wonder who that team might have been. Could people PLEASE drop the whole Teixeira nonsense? He's a Yankee, and no amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth is going to unsign that contract.
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Last time he played there, Cabrera was no worse in LF than Bay. Believe me, you can hide his glove.
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There's plenty of ways to get Cabrera without dealing Buchholz. The Tigers would have to be very interested in Dan Bard, considering the state of their pen and if you add Lars Anderson or Anthony Rizzo to that deal you are off to a very good start.
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Veteran.
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Baseball players play more individual games in a season than players of any sport -- nearly double actually.
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.. that besides being one of our biggest salaries, Drew is also one of our best players?
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I can sympathize, but if you only look at the numbers, he's one of the least bad options.
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If other better deals don't come up (read: Adrian Gonzalez), I'd move Lowell, and sign Adam LaRoche to a three-year deal. An elite bat he isn't, but he's not a bad Millar-type and will give us the level of offense Lowell used to give us, while adding another source of LHH power
