With all the talk here and there of Biggio moving to the Outfield or coming back to second and maybe having a reduced role if they want to bring up the new guys. Do you think Biggio will reach the 3000 hit plateu? He needs 361 Hits to reach that point. He hit about 170 Hits last year to lead the team in 156 games but if Garner starts to limit his role to bring up new people which has been talked about recently i don't think he will have a chance to reach this milstone unless he plays for at least 3 years. What are you thoughts on it? I feel that he will make the Hall of Fame regardless but it would be nice to have him in the 3000 hit club.
I doubt he will do it. Well, definitely not as an Astro. He is just not going to get enough at bats. I can see him moving to the AL and being a DH to get the 3000. But not as an Astro. BTW, I met a new employee at Live Sunday during the day. Hotness, Pure Hotness.
Considering everything else he's done, he doesn't need more than 2800 to get into the Hall, and he'll secure that this year. I know he's said he'll hang on for 3K here or elsewhere, but if he slows down even farther after 2005 and the Astros don't award him a starting job in 2006, I don't know who else will pick up a 40-year-old 2B with a bum knee.
If you think Drayton is going to allow Bidge to be benched, you're crazy. He'll get 3000 hits, and it'll be in an Astros uniform.
Well Garner has been talking about cutting down his work load this year compared to last year so that's why i started to think about this... Biggio would have to have at least 2 full seasons and a part of a third to get to the 3000 or at least 2 great seasons full time. And the way Garner has been talking he is not going to play him all the time and rest him more. Which i don't personally like becuase behind Berkman, Biggio was the most consistant and put up great numbers.
I say no. simply due to reduced playing time and biggio probably going elsewhere he could do it though, just not in an astro uniform.
Now,I could see him doing it in the American League as a DH.And I must admit,I didn't think he would get there....looks possible. Although,Drayton's penchant for ridin a PR pony into the ground might just become legendary here.
He's averaged about 167 hits/year for the last 4 years, but I just don't see how he can continue to get the AB's necessary to keep up that pace. And, even if he does, it will be part way through the 2007 season before he reaches that plateau.
I don't know why all the hate on Biggio. The guy is older yes but he's still one of our better hitters. And as far as 2nd basemen go he is way above average both defensively and offensively.
I say yes. We let Nolan Ryan go before 5000K's, we won't make the same publicity mistake again. Drayton likes putting people in the stands. After Clemens leaves, the hype will be about Biggio reaching 3000 hits.
Biggio is a defensive liability at 2b in addition to being a butcher in Cf.Age and his knee injury have cut down his batspeed,speed on the bases,and ability to cover ground.Also,Burke needs to play.C'mon Drayton,Biggio has been a great player and a PR machine...but,it's time to let him go elsewhere.If he makes the Hall,he'll go in as an Astro.
I'm thinking a lot of people don't realize the significance of 3,000 hits. I'd give anything to see Biggio do that in an Astros' uniform in front of the fans at MMP. If that means we have to make Burke wait an extra year, then so be it. It's not like Biggio is Willie Mays on the Mets out there like the vast majority of Astros fans seem to believe. It'd be like letting a player go right before 500 HRs or 5,000 Ks. Oh, wait. Seriously, how many Astros fans were insanely jealous that Ryan was doing all those things in a different uniform?
exactly... half of you biggio bashers are ludicrous when you bring up his offense as a reason to why Burke should be playing. Bidge will still be amongst the league leaders in hits, 2B, lead-off HR's, and getting HBP... to do that in his late 30's is quite a testament to how much work he puts into training. The only reason to criticize Biggio being an everyday player is his defense... not his offense.
He will get it, they will discover a statistical error, remove three of the hits, and we will see Bidge at the end of the season behind the plate for the Astros in 2013 or so
It's not an extra year, Biggio isn't that close. 3 years if he stays healthy. 3 years is a long freaking time. He'll be 42 by then. Mays, btw, was 40 when he had his last good season. He lingered on in a Mets uniform until the age of 42, at which point he was brutal. If Biggio could maintain his level of offensive production for 3 more years to get to 3000, then he'd be serviceable even with his defensive woes. But if he drops off, are you prepared to go to bat with him anyway just to see him hit a number that dozens of players have hit before?
Why don't we wait to see how it plays out before we hand the spot over to someone who a) apparently can't beat out Biggio at a position he hasn't played at in two years and b) isn't a Houston icon. If he can play like last year, he's just a tad over two seasons away from reaching 3,000. The way the man approaches the game and the way he takes care of his body gives me no reason to doubt that he can do it. Like it or not, there's something to be said for how lucky we are as Astros' fans to have Biggio and Bagwell, two potential future Hall of Fame inductees, to play every single MLB pitch of their career in our uniform. People want to b**** everyday about Beltran leaving, then turnaround and advocate getting rid of someone like Biggio. It's mindboggling.
Well, it is two dozen, which you could technically call dozens. However, if only 25 players in the history of MLB have reached that mark, it's worth it to do as much as you can to see it happen while he's an Astro. I'm not advocating throwing him out there if he turns into Willie Met, but why don't we wait to see if that'll even happen before we let him go?
