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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 |
Pickoff Moves
The Can't Win Prospects
Joe Sheehan confesses his sins about last year's guys he liked (mercifully, he was right about Jeff Weaver). Now, he goes over guys he's sure will prove a bust, which includes Dioner Navarro:The minor leaguer I see as a disappointment is Dioner Navarro. Once the Yankees' top prospect, now with the Dodgers, Navarro is a small catcher who doesn't pack much power. His run production is going to be tied tightly to his batting average, which was .341 in Double-A in 2003, but just .263 across two levels last season. Comparisons to Ivan Rodriguez are just shy of "laughable." Navarro more closely resembles a younger Mike Lavalliere, a player who had more value than he appeared to thanks to his great walk rate. He may end up as a contributor, kind of a Gregg Zaun with better defense and more opportunities. He won't be a star, and his time as even a top prospect is running short, no pun intended.Well, let's hope he's wrong.
New Things At The Baseball Cube
Gary Cohen, proprietor of The Baseball Cube, has made some interesting formatting changes. I'm not sure I like all of them (the mast is now huge), but he's gotten Google-savvy and changed player links so that they contain the player's name. Googlephiles know this is a near-sure way to boost page rank; I tip my hat to anyone so enterprising.Previously, my main beefs with the site were
- Coherence. Many's the time I've had problems with multiple entries for the same player.
- Accuracy. All too often, a given player has wrong or missing data. (The worst example I've found so far was the old Cal Ripken, Jr. page, which was missing his 1982 season.)
- Slow corrections. Believe it or not, I did check the Ripken page about a month or so after I found the error (on December 31), and it still hadn't been fixed.
Will Carroll's Dodgers Team Health Report
Bad news for a lot of players, unfortunately, with Jayson Werth, OP, Penny, Jackson, and Ishii unsurprisingly listed as red lights, and yellows for Ross, Drew, and Bradley. He also adds this coda:[Dodger team physician Frank] Jobe's UCL reconstruction may be well known, but the reduction in rotator-cuff injuries over the last few years is just as significant. That's also a Frank contribution; his "thrower's ten" exercises get a lot of the credit. It's shoulders that may tell more of the tale than elbows this season for the Dodgers. Penny should be the ace of the staff if he's healthy. He's returning from the nerve injury that ended his 2004 early and dramatically. There's a theory that this injury may be labrum-related, though it's only a theory at this point.
Baseball Reliquary Benefit
The Hollywood Improv is the site of a benefit for the Baseball Reliquary. Tickets are $25, with a two-drink minimum. Performers include Fred Willard, Jack Riley, George Wendt, Ronnie Schell, Greg Proops, Dom Irrera, John Caponera, John Mendoza, Andy Kindler, Wayne Federman, Tom Tully, and others.
Comments:
Whats the deal with David Ross? I can imagine why everyone else has either yellow or red flags, but I dont recall hearing anything about an injury history to Ross.
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