Comments on: Middle-Age Wasteland http://www.blueandorange.net/?p=1019 Hoping for a Miracle since 2005 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:54:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: ckmagic http://www.blueandorange.net/?p=1019&cpage=1#comment-486372 ckmagic Fri, 07 May 2010 07:03:34 +0000 http://www.blueandorange.net/?p=1019#comment-486372 You are so totally wrong on Catalanotto. You don't hit .292 overall and over .300 with RISP and RISP and 2 outs in 14 ML seasons and suck. Cat ONLY has one start, compared to EVERYONE else on the roster having at least 5. You don't put up that high of a BA over that long of a period WITHOUT having proven yourself, which Cat would if he got 1-2 starts a week. I guarantee if he had a one-two day a week platoon with Francouer, he would put up the same numbers he has over his career. The reason why his power numbers have been down the last few years is because A) injuries (he is now healthy) B) lack of consistent playing time. If you think a CAREER minor leaguer will come to the majors and all of a sudden realize that he HASN'T spent his ENTIRE career in the minors and start to rake is insane! If CC is the next Lou Gehrig like you say, why oh why did the Red Sox not trade for one but TWO LH hitting 1B-DH last season BEFORE Carter was traded to the Mets???? It's not like Adam LaRoche and Casey Kotchman are Willie Stargell and Willie McCovey either...Someone in the Red Sox front office realized this guy WOULD NOT be able to get the job done in the majors. Look up Andy Tracy, Micheal Abreu, now Mike Hessmann, Andy Tomerlain, Mark Johnson, Jorge Toca, Chip Ambres...then tell me why a CAREER-MINOR LEAGUER IS EXACTLY THAT...BECAUSE putting up solid Triple A numbers is not in the same hemisphere as putting up solid MLB numbers. Stop making things personal and actually LOOK at the players. Cat is a PROVEN...PROVEN player. All he needs is consistent playing time, which would be about 8-10 AB a week. You are so totally wrong on Catalanotto.

You don’t hit .292 overall and over .300 with RISP and RISP and 2 outs in 14 ML seasons and suck.

Cat ONLY has one start, compared to EVERYONE else on the roster having at least 5. You don’t put up that high of a BA over that long of a period WITHOUT having proven yourself, which Cat would if he got 1-2 starts a week. I guarantee if he had a one-two day a week platoon with Francouer, he would put up the same numbers he has over his career. The reason why his power numbers have been down the last few years is because A) injuries (he is now healthy) B) lack of consistent playing time.

If you think a CAREER minor leaguer will come to the majors and all of a sudden realize that he HASN’T spent his ENTIRE career in the minors and start to rake is insane!

If CC is the next Lou Gehrig like you say, why oh why did the Red Sox not trade for one but TWO LH hitting 1B-DH last season BEFORE Carter was traded to the Mets???? It’s not like Adam LaRoche and Casey Kotchman are Willie Stargell and Willie McCovey either…Someone in the Red Sox front office realized this guy WOULD NOT be able to get the job done in the majors.

Look up Andy Tracy, Micheal Abreu, now Mike Hessmann, Andy Tomerlain, Mark Johnson, Jorge Toca, Chip Ambres…then tell me why a CAREER-MINOR LEAGUER IS EXACTLY THAT…BECAUSE putting up solid Triple A numbers is not in the same hemisphere as putting up solid MLB numbers.

Stop making things personal and actually LOOK at the players. Cat is a PROVEN…PROVEN player. All he needs is consistent playing time, which would be about 8-10 AB a week.

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