elbow surgery.

do you think Tavares would take $1 M to be a pinch runner late in games?

shoulder surgery I believe and will be out for the season. We have our mlb quota of those.

but i had to add this for any who is a “looney toons” fan, i could have sworn that said chuck jones when i first read it

He sounds like a “Major League” character.

He still has options remaining but would have to pass through revocable waivers to go back to Memphis

(Meaning any team can claim him but we have the right to pull him back)

the Yankees the runs. :rimshot:

please keep the knee-jerk accusations to yourself. just stupid.

“What you’ve just (typed) is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever (read). At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having (read) it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”

…Besides, Joey Gathright’s only skill is his ability to jump over cars. Linky.

Can he replace our 13th reliever?

is truly an underappreciated characteristic. Although I like Miles cuz he kicked the crap out of someone holding a gun – he’s freakin’ John Wayne he’s got so much true grit.

He has terrible on base skills for a leadoff hitter (really for any hitter, but you just know he would get lead off time here).He has no power, not even extra base power. For someone as fast as he is , you would think he could put up some decent doubles and triples numbers, but he can’t even do that. He has a terrible BB/K rate (seriously Willy, you have NO POWER, cut down on the damn free swinging already.) Add in the the craptacular fielding and you have yourself one pathetic baseball player. I am also going to assume he has a noodle arm. If he doesn’t, anyone, please feel free to correct me on that.

but I would really love to see the Cardinals bat some kid who’s a real burner seventh sometime. He gets on base, he’s got the pitcher and the ninth place hitter coming up behind him. What better time to just run like hell than when your worst hitters are up?

Strange, because the idea seems to have always been to get your speedy guys on when your good hitters are up, presumably because then said speed guys will get themselves into scoring position. However, it seems to me that when your big guys- your Alberts and his ilk- are up, you don’t want to risk losing the baserunner. If you stick the guy ahead of your worst hitters, he can just take off at the first opportunity, without worrying so much about the cost of the lost runner. Then, if he gets on third with one out by swiping second and third, just squeeze him home, or hey, a sac fly scores him.

I wonder why no one does this? I’m sure there are reasons, but I’m honestly not seeing them.

button, it’ll be easier to follow your comments.

And Taveras only value is as a pinch runner, which is to say he has very little value at all.

.251/.308/.296

That’s about as little power as anyone can possibly have. That might be okay if he got on base. Or if he was exceptional in the field.

He’s fast. End of skill set.

but after looking at Redding’s tRA in comparison with others (Sheets, RJ), I have to say “No.”

If Mo isn’t going to sign either of these guys, I’d rather he give Boggs or K-Mac a shot at the fifth spot.

which probably is a major factor with his range. Since Tampa plays on Turf, I think using 2007 would be a bad example. I’m not saying he is a great defensive player by any means, but I think he could be serviceable at 2B. Ron Belliard does it (so maybe he takes that shallow RF approach to 2nd), and you also forget he will be working with the Secret Weapon. Can you imagine his numbers in the 2 hole in front of Pujols?

the dirt on rotoworld was he was asking for $800K and the marlins would only offer $650k.

he could definitely be a poor man’s springer on our team — his advantage would be that he would show up at ST for less than $1m and springer will likely run us $4m or $5m and cost a draft pick. My concern is that the guy just can’t stay in the majors. his history makes last year likely to be a fluke. still, if he’s willing to work for just over twice the minimum, i hardly see the downside in offering him a $800k invite to ST.

even with our depth in the bullpen, If he doesn’t pan out or gets bumped by somebody else, he seem like someone we could flip for a AA player without too much difficulty in april or may for someone in need of a reliever.

even though I think we have good bullpen options, I do think that we could look for someone like him to fill a 6 or 7th inning role. I see perez, motte, and kinney filling out the 8th and 9th inning roles well. We still have franklin, yes, and kmac. It might be nice to have a depth guy in case of injuries, in case we need to rotate some of the guys with options through AAA to keep them fresh, or in case KMac ends up in the rotation. $800k is not a bad flyer on a guy who posted a 2.00 era last year, whatever his history is.

He has decent stuff and he is a lefty. He could be the possible swingman that we are looking for. He can start and can be used as a specialist.