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by R.J. Anderson on Jan 4, 2009 3:18 PM EST Comment 30 comments

Credit to JI for the Griffey pic.

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haha nice lil graph there

Evan Longoria and David Price - the fight for my heart

by joeybw on Jan 4, 2009 3:39 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

i understand griffey isn't the right fit, but...

let’s be a little fair here. the “injury prone” label doesn’t quite fit anymore. Old age, maybe. But from 2005-2007 he was pretty healthy. Even last year he nearly put up 500abs.

by raysfaninminnesota on Jan 4, 2009 3:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

and hit like 3 hr's for the white sox because his knee was leaking fluid half the season from tripping over a locker.

He is the grant hill of baseball.

by putupyourDUKES on Jan 4, 2009 3:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

yes, he was injured last year on a stupid injury

but the last three years before that, he was healthy. That creates a trend. That is not injury prone. If you want to argue he’s more likely to get injured because of his age, fine. You can make a case on that. But you cannot argue he’s likely to just collapse like dominoes because he’s injury prone. That no longer is the case. It was 5 years ago. Not now.

by raysfaninminnesota on Jan 4, 2009 3:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

"yes, he was injured last year on a stupid injury"

I would’ve said an odd injury, but it’s still getting hurt, and even worse is that he played through it.

by R.J. Anderson on Jan 4, 2009 4:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

my sister walked by and said it is the stupidest graph she has ever seen

by RayOfLight on Jan 4, 2009 3:59 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

tell your sister to go suck a railroad spike

by BossmanJunior333 on Jan 4, 2009 4:05 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Your sister must not read this site.

by R.J. Anderson on Jan 4, 2009 4:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

If we get griff, we better still pick up pat burrell

Then ill be okay with it.

by putupyourDUKES on Jan 4, 2009 4:10 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Hypothetical what if

What if…we signed our big DH (Burrell/Bradley/Dunn/Giambi) and the FO decided Joyce needed some extra time in the minors (1-2 months) to work on hitting LHP, so they decided to sign Griffey for 1 mil plus incentives, with the intent of playing him in right field everyday until Joyce was ready, at which point, we would agree to trade him (with his value up from being healthy and playing every day) or release him, assuming he wouldnt want to sit on the bench. Would you guys be up for that?

by BossmanJunior333 on Jan 4, 2009 4:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

you have it backwards.

Put griff in the field and his hamstring will explode all over that turf.

by putupyourDUKES on Jan 4, 2009 4:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Holy Jesus no.

Perez/Gross in right field then. Griffey is a -2 win defender.

by R.J. Anderson on Jan 4, 2009 4:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ugh I know

Just trying to think of a hypothetical situation that could make both sides somewhat happy. Maybe if we signed a Dunn or Burrell, they could play RF while Griffey Dhed. ehh I’ll drop it. Griffey shouldnt be an everyday player with us under any circumstances. Doubt he would want to play the bench anyways, which wouldnt make sense with Crawford, Joyce and our new DH (if its not Bradley or Burrell) all left handed. We are already left handed heavy in our line up and dont need another left handed bat on the bench.

by BossmanJunior333 on Jan 4, 2009 4:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs