Options in house

by louslovechild on May 21, 2009 2:08 AM CDT

I am a firm believer that you play hot hands, but at the end of the year, the numbers for most players will be there. What I mean by most players, is proven players. We can bash Lee, Bradley, and Soriano, but at the end of the year they will have the same type numbers they have always had. Maybe a little higher or a little lower, but they will be there. Theriot has been an everyday player now for only 3 seasons, so what he puts out on the field has really nothing to be compared to. He has his ups and downs like anyone else, but his recent power surge (only at home mind you) and his ability to get extra base hits is not what we are used to, but it may actually be the type of player he is.

Fontenot, on the other hand, has proven nothing other than he could spot start, get 350 - 400 AB's and surprise a few people along the way. I am not going to go the route of many others by finding out what we can give back to Cleveland for DeRosa, even though it would be a buzz in that locker room that might light a fire under some butts. I am actually talking about Koyie Hill.

I saw him play third in college, he did it with ease and had pretty good range. He has hit all year: spring training and each start he has gotten. You cannot take the bat out of Soto's hands, he needs to get going on his own, plus his relationship with the pitching staff is too good. Hill playing third, Fontenot back at 2B, might be somthing to look at. A bat in that line up that has so far hit, might not be a bad option to the plethora of .200 hitters we have out there every night.

Hill has been taking ground balls at third as an emergency infielder, and if I am not mistaken, played 3rd for an inning earlier this year. Hitters who have been hitting, sitting on the bench is not a great idea. If Soto goes down, which I hope to God he doesnt, than Hill moves to C, and Fontenot is right back at the hot corner where he doesnt belong.

Our options in house are limited. MLB pitching is starting to figure out Scales, Miles has been a big bust, and Jake Fox cannot play in the field. It is May, the only options are in-house, and when things head towards rock bottom, changes need to be made, no matter how out of LF they may seem to be.

Koyie has my vote for at least an attempt at 3rd, and maybe few good games and a few knocks here or there will help get the rest of this team going a little bit.

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Com'on, really? Our friggin' back-up catcher isn't gonna be our infielder.

We are 38 games into the season. If the playoffs started now, we would be 2nd for the wild card behind the Cardinals. We are in the BEST division in baseball, as determined by BP a few weeks ago by outside-division records (BP email, can’t find the citation right now). We’ve turned our R/D positive (huge sign, at least IMO), and we’ve seen Soto, Aramis, Lee, Zambrano, Bradley (gag me), and just about every other significant player suck ass. We have no real middle infield, and our best bench player should be starting…which hurts me A LOT to say. Our bullpen sucks more than the Nationals starting rotation.

I was gonna put this up as a FanPost, but this is a much, much better place. Our team has sucked on just about every level—and we are still in the division race, and essentially near the top of our division/wild card standings. Every possible injury or suckness that we could envision has happened this season. Yet we are winning. Winning. We are 4 games over .500 and in the chase, and we still have yet to play a lot of crap-tastic teams. Chill the hell out.

Dan

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--Ernie Banks

by dtpollitt on May 21, 2009 3:53 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs

So you claim that Fox can’t play the field, but yet you want to play Koyie Hill a much less offensive threat at 3rd base? If any kind of desperation move is going to be made I say why not let Fox play 3rd. Its not and shouldn’t happen but Hill at 3rd is probably worse than Miles or Scales.

by jeff_pico on May 21, 2009 4:19 AM CDT reply actions

If we are going to go for pure offense

then we move Sori to 2B and bring up Fox so he and Hoff can platoon in LF. Our defense would be terrible but hey maybe we could outscore teams.

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by CHCOWNTHECENTRAL on May 21, 2009 4:55 AM CDT up reply actions

LOL

Could you imagine that. We’d go the rest of the season without turning a DP.

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by SackMan on May 21, 2009 8:42 AM CDT up reply actions

We could turn a DP

just never a 6-4-3 or probably not a 4-6-3

Derrick Rose-2009 ROTY Tyrus Thomas-2009 MIP...hope I'm at least half right

by CHCOWNTHECENTRAL on May 21, 2009 11:04 PM CDT up reply actions

Koyie Hill at 3B?

Only in a dire emergency. Remember, Hill’s several years out of college and had that serious hand injury a year and a half ago.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on May 21, 2009 8:34 AM CDT reply actions

And dire emergency is defined as...

“Everyone else on the team is dead”

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by Worf on May 21, 2009 11:57 AM CDT up reply actions

Wow. Just wow.

Koyie Hill at third base.

Wow.

When we have a utility player sitting on his hands in the dugout with 727.2 innings of major league experience at third base.

Wow.

I’m sorry, this is just…wow.

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by daver on May 21, 2009 10:13 AM CDT reply actions