Thats if the pitching holds up. The Red Sox are notorious for falling off mid season. Someone will get injured and the bats will fall asleep.
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Official 2007 MLB Season Thread
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I'm sure they always do. The Bill Mueller thing was tough break for all involved. Anyhow, Miguel Cabrera looks pretty good. Maybe come July the Marlins will hold one of their famous fire sales.
It's a criticism that has been brought up before, but the teams like the extra revenue more than the unfairness. What surprises me is that Chipper even figured any of that out on his own.
Considering how good and young Cabrera is, that's going to be expensive. Then again, there aren't many good and young third basemen around. In fact, a third baseman with decent power of any age is hard to come by.
Big if: if La Roche can play this well the whole season, I've got no problem with playing him. And if Betemit is going to pinch hit like that, then I've got no problem with keeping him on the bench either.
LaRoche (I believe he's dropped the space) will get a chance to prove himself over the next month or so. We'll see what happens when the pitchers start to learn him. For now it's working out -- with Anderson on the DL, they need the left hand bat on the bench so Betemit is it.
I don't think Cabrera is all that great defensively, but he's got the power, that's for sure. Colletti would probably sign him in a heartbeat if he had the opportunity.
Well, there was an exception to that one year...
From his Baseball Almanac page:
I think that sums him up pretty well. (As a player anyway, certainly not a person)
For a guy who until recently was an outfielder, I'd say he's acceptable at third. I don't think he's going to lose you many games with the glove.
Anyone would sign him if they could, which is the problem. He's going to cost a lot, probably Alfonso Soriano-type money.
This is either his fourth or fifth year. I'm not sure if his first season of 80+ games counts as a full year, free agency-wise.
The way I see it, he's close enough to free agency that only a team that thinks they're one slugger away from pennant contention would trade for him without thinking they can sign him too. And he's so valuable that the Marlins would want a lot of prospects for him, probably so many that only one of the richer teams could pay up that way either.
I had a look here. Apparently he's in his fourth season. Given what the Marlins are paying him (under $500,000), he's not going to be mid-season rental material unless, as you say, some team is willing to hand over a bunch of prospects in return.
i know. i hope this doesn't turn into 2006. last year sucked. also can't believe we got no hit for seven innings.
Bergmann was on fire, no shame in losing to his pitching there, he's the bright spot in the Nat's rotation, he's just suck with a really bad team. He's pitched well all season and deserved a win, I just wish it hadn't been against us.
That was last year's salary. He's getting over $7 million this year after winning arbitration in the offseason. But I think the logic still stands.
Yeah, thanks. I could not find that number. Still $7 million is a bargain for guy with his talent, even in Florida.
Not just a bargain for his talent, but in terms of the stats he's already put up too. As Verducci pointed out on SI.com last week, he's one of the few young players any team would want to build a team around.
its been rainin here for an hour off and on, i hope tonights game between the whitesox and yankees dont get rained out. im lookin forward to the whitesox kicking some yankee ass
You mean like that beating you gave the Royals Sunday.
Ouch- match point goes to MacNut
you got me on that one. but the sox still have the better record at 2 over, and the yanks are 2 under. we'll let the game do the talking.