Comments on: MLB Site Round-Up http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2007/11/28/mlb-site-round-up/ It sounds like porn, but it's all about baseball. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:38:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ethan Michaels http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2007/11/28/mlb-site-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-12029 Ethan Michaels Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:52:30 +0000 http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2007/11/28/mlb-site-round-up/#comment-12029 http://modernrooters.blogspot.com/ If any of you have some free time, please check out this article I wrote on Jon Lester. I’m hoping for some feedback from fans who don’t like the Red Sox. Thank you to those of you who take the time to read it. http://modernrooters.blogspot.com/

If any of you have some free time, please check out this article I wrote on Jon Lester. I’m hoping for some feedback from fans who don’t like the Red Sox. Thank you to those of you who take the time to read it.

]]> By: KC2HMZ http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2007/11/28/mlb-site-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-11896 KC2HMZ Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:35:35 +0000 http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2007/11/28/mlb-site-round-up/#comment-11896 At this point I'm not sure the Reds or anybody else should want to be like the Cardinals, and I don't mean that as smack talk. They've got a new ownership group that fired one of the team's most successful GMs ever because he wasn't listening to their new Moneyball-type front-office honcho. They have a pitching staff that's in tatters. Scott Rolen does not get along with Yony LaRussa and reportedly wants out. Jim Edmonds apparently has said he'd waive his no-trade clause too, though only for a southern California team. And now they've deluded themselves into thinking they can replace Eckstein with Izturis? "But Izturis won a Gold Glove!" That bunch of hooey and $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee. They removed an important piece from their offense, replacing him with a guy whose OBP last year was only one point higher than X-Factor's BA. Or to put it another way, the guy they just refused to re-sign had a career batting average of .278 in nine postseason series, with a .333 OBP. His replacement has appeared in the postseason only once, going 3-for-17 (.176) with a .222 OBP for the Dodgers while they were getting their butts kicked (by the Cardinals, no less) in the 2004 NLDS. My condolences to Cardinals fans. Watching a championship team descend into rebuilding mode is never any fun. HMZ At this point I’m not sure the Reds or anybody else should want to be like the Cardinals, and I don’t mean that as smack talk.

They’ve got a new ownership group that fired one of the team’s most successful GMs ever because he wasn’t listening to their new Moneyball-type front-office honcho. They have a pitching staff that’s in tatters. Scott Rolen does not get along with Yony LaRussa and reportedly wants out. Jim Edmonds apparently has said he’d waive his no-trade clause too, though only for a southern California team. And now they’ve deluded themselves into thinking they can replace Eckstein with Izturis?

“But Izturis won a Gold Glove!” That bunch of hooey and $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee. They removed an important piece from their offense, replacing him with a guy whose OBP last year was only one point higher than X-Factor’s BA.

Or to put it another way, the guy they just refused to re-sign had a career batting average of .278 in nine postseason series, with a .333 OBP. His replacement has appeared in the postseason only once, going 3-for-17 (.176) with a .222 OBP for the Dodgers while they were getting their butts kicked (by the Cardinals, no less) in the 2004 NLDS.

My condolences to Cardinals fans. Watching a championship team descend into rebuilding mode is never any fun.

HMZ

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