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From: David Short on 5 Feb 2010 17:26 On 2/5/2010 4:10 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Which would be an important point if Cabrera was Janish's equal > defensively. > > Do you believe this to be the case? After watching Janish in Dayton and cincy...yeah. I know the numbers scream how great he is, but ....I also don't think the low BAPIP is a chance thing. He's overmatched by major league pitching. One of the press guys here wrote about how Janish got the bat knocked out of his hands several times last year. I didn't witness that, but it wouldn't shock me if it was true. >> >> Again, I'm not going to get too excited here "We�re just talking about >> different shades of suckitude." > > Which is my complaint. The money would be more usefully spent > setting fire to it before the home opener. OK, fireworks > would be even better. > > Cabrera's about as known a commodity as one can imagine. Spending > money > on him makes sense only in the context of a "this close to making > the playoffs" kind of team. > > To be clear, I'm not arguing for Janish. Any GM who can't > do better for (essentially) free is not competent. John > McDonald is his upside and I've got no use for him. I don't know how bad Cabrera is likely to be....35 year old shortstops usually aren't world beaters. I do have a pretty strong feeling that Janish at the plate is like sending up a pitcher. That's a LOT of defense. dfs
From: Ron Johnson on 5 Feb 2010 18:03 On Feb 5, 5:26 pm, David Short <David.No.Sho...(a)Spam.wright.Please.edu> wrote: > On 2/5/2010 4:10 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Which would be an important point if Cabrera was Janish's equal > > defensively. > > > Do you believe this to be the case? > > After watching Janish in Dayton and cincy...yeah. I know the numbers > scream how great he is, but ....I also don't think the low BAPIP is a > chance thing. He's overmatched by major league pitching. That could be. But I don't think you understand what an outlier Janish's numbers to date are. Howsomeever I was asking whether you believe Janish and Cabrera are equals with the glove. If they're at all close, it's a sign that the Cincy organization doesn't have their act in gear (in that Janish should have been released years ago -- his glove probably peaked last year)
From: john smith on 5 Feb 2010 18:06 35 year old shortstops like Cabrera are best suited on a contender in need of a shortstop who is going to bat eighth. If I was the Reds, I would roll the dice on Janish who has more upside at this point. If the Reds think this guy Cabrera is a number two hitter, they are living in the land of KOOL-AID... Thank God for Taveras being elsewhere. He was a cancer on this club. Getting him at bats would have been catastrophic to any chances this team has going east...
From: John Kasupski on 5 Feb 2010 23:43 On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:21:24 -0800 (PST), Ron Johnson <johnson(a)ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca> wrote: >On Feb 5, 3:16�pm, RJA <agentvau...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Wonder what those projections said about Bruce and Taveras last year. > >Well you can check easily enough. His spreadsheet is archived at >Primer. > >http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/szymborski/ZiPS2009.xls > >.276/.328/.522 for Bruce and .272/.318/.331 for Taveras > >And .228/.293/.347 for Janish So much for that, then. Besides, what matters isn't what's projected, it's what they actually do. JK
From: John Kasupski on 6 Feb 2010 00:10
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:06:35 -0800, eddygdvd(a)msn.com (john smith) wrote: >If the Reds think this guy Cabrera is a number two hitter, they are living in >the land of KOOL-AID... Yeah, why would they think that? |