BBTF on Burrell Deal

It’s been mentioned that players moving to DH lose about 5 runs off their offensive output. I don’t have links though.

Sandy is really doing his part to get the team good pub.

I know it’s polite to talk about the “open competition” in right field between Joyce, Gabe Gross, Justin Ruggiano, Fernando Perez, maybe a re-inked Rocco Baldelli should they go that route, and a partridge from a pear tree to be discovered later, but let’s be serious about the likely outcome of that fight. Talking up Perez is just standard-issue fanthead steals-mongering; he’s a nifty aspiring reserve type on this team, and would make a nice starter in center for several second-division teams, but his offensive production’s well shy of what most teams expect and get from their right fielders, and he barely showed up at the position after his debut for that very reason. Baldelli (should he be re-signed) and Ruggiano are looking at something that might be bigger than a strict platoon role, but I wouldn’t envision either winning the job barring a Joyce disaster on the scale of Exiles this spring. Although the notional incumbent, Gross didn’t contribute much in the way of power, and had some scary-bad moments in the outfield—it’s best if he’s seen as the insurance policy in case Joyce has an awful camp, and perhaps someone who gets dealt before Opening Day when Joyce doesn’t. So why call this a competition? Because it’s January and it’s too early to start squelching ambitions, especially when you’re a team in charge of so many guys’ competing ambitions, so why rush that facts-of-life talk before the convenient fiction of camp performance spells things out for those concerned?

Okay, so she doesn’t comment on Perez’ defense and then says Gross had “some scary-bad moments”? Is it really that hard to look at UZR and note that both are above average? This reeks of her watching the playoffs, seeing Gross playing the worse defense of his career and making presumptions based off of it. That’s unacceptable.