Spring Training Starts One Week From Tomorrow
February 3rd, 2012 by terrybenishThere are points to consider as this year is almost upon us.
The general manager has been drafting and trading for young talent, both pitchers and players both. Some of his trades for young players and pitchers now could be called into question as those young players are either blocked from playing by people with existing large contracts or in the last 123 days since the season in 2011 finished, he signed a group of players that once were good to very good somewhere and now have fallen on hard times as their body has broken down just when they got old and no longer had a pay-day.
Somewhere Faulkner’s corpse just twitched.
So if you’re rebuilding and you have all these players you’ve drafted, why do you trade away great pitching for younger guys that are stuck behind contracted older guys that Wooden-head won’t release or thinks somebody will trade for and pick up the full contracts? Why do that?
Well maybe miracles happen and a trade happens. There is always next year too. Let’s see I mentioned the miracle part and the future, oh yeah, Wooden-head thinks playing Kevin Millwood, Carlos Guillen, Iwakuna and the other declining players under contract might compete and he can sell some beer, sushi, garlic fries.
Yeah yeah I know. Here is what I am really, really pumped about. I can not wait to see Paxton and Walker pumping 98 into the strike zone against some veteran from San Diego who turns and looks at Buddy Black and asks him why is he here and not golfing? I want to see if Danny Hultzen has three pitches and is Tom Glavine on speed or what?
Nick Franklin and Vinnie Catricala, can they hit? Can big Jesus Montero catch? Casper Wells and his cannon in right field. Ackley and Seager hitting back to back doubles.
Please don’t let me see Ichiro batting third or second or first…ninth is fine.
I don’t want to watch Millwood and Guillen, Olivo and Ichiro, Figgins and Vargas.
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