Comments on: Winter Leagues Begin

By: Tom Waits

Tom Waits — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:29:39 +0000

95: Agree. You go after a Patterson-type player when you’re a few years from competing and can take a chance on him realizing his potential. He’s been bad for way too long for us to roll the dice on him.

97: Patterson’s got a big defensive edge on Guzman, but at least Freddie knew what the heck the strike zone was.

By: Steve C

Steve C — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:23:10 +0000

Re: 94 didn’t the Padres trade Freddie Guzman

By: Mark Ase

Mark Ase — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:22:05 +0000

Not to rain on everyone’s parade(again) on Schilling, but as much sense as that makes for the Padres to bring him in, I can’t see it happening.

If I remember correctly his family is more comfortable in the north east because of his wife’s health situation(skin cancer some time ago)

By: Mark Ase

Mark Ase — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:08:23 +0000

As nice as it would be to have Patterson’s speed I can’t imagine he would help a playoff team…no power, terrible OBP and fringe defense in center….seems like a guy to avoid at all costs.

By: Masticore317

Masticore317 — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:57:15 +0000

What about signing Cory Patterson for CF?

I like the idea of Schilling…

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:00:50 +0000

92: That’s certainly interesting. I wonder what that does to the value of center fielders in free agency.

By: Less Nessman (a.k.a. Peter Friberg)

Less Nessman (a.k.a. Peter Friberg) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:52:49 +0000

The Phillies are not re-signing Rowand. They plan to use Bourn/Victorino. On a related note, I was told an Atlanta area paper (AJC?) said the Braves plan on using Jeff Francouer in CF (where he played in the minors) so while we’ve seen lots of discussion about Cameron going to Atlanta, chances are Atlanta doesn’t intend to spend additional money on their OF.

By: Less Nessman (a.k.a. Peter Friberg)

Less Nessman (a.k.a. Peter Friberg) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:47:23 +0000

TW, I’d pretty much agree w/ those percentages… The cool thing is, we’re not in a situation where if our one starting pitching prospect (i.e. Jared Wells) doesn’t pan out, we’re SOL… There’s enough depth there that there’s a decent chance we have at least one above average pitcher to add to Peavy, Young, and co…

By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:09:55 +0000

85 … Venable DH’ing … Antonelli @ 2B …

http://mlb.mlb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=l119&t=g_box&gid=2007_10_09_peswin_scowin_1

By: Dann

Dann — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:58:55 +0000

Here’s an idea for CF. How about bringing back Shane Victorino? While the Philly fans seem to love him, they have Michael Bourne who they may want to give a shot as well. I don’t know if I would deal Chase Headley for him, but the Phillies do have a need for a third basemen. Perhaps there is a better combination of players that can make this happen. And if the Phils save money at 3B, they can still try and re-sign Rowand to play CF.