Yeah because it really helped last night. The Hidalgo trade is off to a great start. Especially that droop fly ball that landed between Biggio and Lane. They finished the sweep.
Of course, Hidalgo probably wouldn't have been playing last night anyway. I don't think he'd have gotten there anyway, even if he had. Not to mention his replacement hit a HR, something Hidalgo couldn't do since the second week of the season.
I saw this and I'm not sure if we got enough...I know he's slumping, but damn, an veteran closer and youngster... I know from a business standpoint, it makes sense, and to be honest with you, I'll miss him... Jason better fill the void...
But they still lost. Hildago is a scapegoat. At least now there is no question they have the absolute worst outfield in baseball.
Defensively they are not good although they generally make the plays they get to (Berkman's drop on Tuesday notwithstanding). The problem is they collectively have a poor-mediocre range factor. They are a good offensive outfield. Berkman's over .330 with 15 HRs. Biggio around .300 and performing well in the lead off position. Lane should be hitting over .300 in another week. They are far from the "absolute worst outfield in baseball".
Yeah because it really helped last night. The Hidalgo trade is off to a great start. Especially that droop fly ball that landed between Biggio and Lane. They finished the sweep. Yeah, Lane's 2-4, 2RBI performance certainly hurt. You realize Lane has more RBIs in the last week (6) than Hidalgo does in the last month (4), right? Hidalgo's not a scapegoat, he's a sucky player who was contributing nothing in the 5 or 6 spot in the lineup. Are there more sucky players? Of course. But he was both the worst and the most expensive of the bunch. Why would anyone complain about getting rid of him?
You can say that again. 100% my sentiments. I really would not want to see the great season Clemens is giving to us go for not.
That's great . A new york paper did say that met's scouts already have detected a easily correctable flaw in his swing. Say goodbye to Harry Speilman.
I doubt it... severely. Can we PLEASE get Gary Gaetti up here? He's got New Orleans banging out hits like crazy right now... and they're hitting HR's in a pitchers park. We can't hit HR's in a freakin hitters park right now.
Here are the stats of spilman: Career average is .237, while averaging 5 hrs a year. http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/spilmha01.shtml
I didn't know it was THAT bad... but hell, that sure doesn't help. Actually, I feel that hitting coaches should be recylced every 4-5 years or so, simply because eventually there won't be anything you can contribute to a hitter anymore. (same thing happens in Golf, Tennis, etc.). Also, while his stats are bad... it doesn't mean he doesn't know what you're "supposed" to do. Maybe he had a great mental approach, but just didn't have the physical tools to enact them... thus he became a coach. I also just realized that Dave Duncan (the pitching coach for St. Louis, and Oakland back in the day), was actually NOT a pitcher. He was a catcher...
