Orlando Cabrera at short?

by LastRites on Feb 24, 2009 1:19 PM EST Comment 30 comments

So what if Alex Gonzalez's knee is A-Gon? He's already missing the first week of practice.

I've always liked Orlando Cabrera and he does fill Dusty's adage: Shortstop hits No. 2.

He'd make a nice stopgap until Frazier is ready. Keppinger could go back to being a utility infielder, and Cherry could be the OFF DAY fill-in player for the other five spots.

What are the chances, the Reds sign Orlando for a 1-year deal?

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I think he'd be a great fit.

But with this being a rebuilding year, it would be a waste of cash, would piss of Knee Bass, and might retard the development of Todd Frazier or Chris Valaika.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 24, 2009 3:10 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

not to mention

cost a draft pick

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by MixFMKyle on Feb 24, 2009 3:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

That shouldn't be that big of a reason

Per Joe Sheehan BP subscription required:

For all of the hue and cry about the compensation system this winter, the scheme for Type-A free agents isn’t all that restrictive. The clause that prevents picks in the top 15 from being forfeited dramatically reduces the value they can return, and separates the image of a First-Round Pick! from the reality. Furthermore, the supplemental picks serve to lower the real cost of signing Type-A free agents for teams in the top 15 of the draft, knocking their second-round selections deep into the player pool. If anything, it appears that the teams in that part of the draft are being far too conservative in a market where players are cheap; the associated costs are so small that compensation can be ignored, leaving just your team’s needs, the projected value of the player, and his salary.

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by Snake the Jake on Feb 24, 2009 4:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

not to mention

throw off the entire balance of the universe, causing peteyhendrix to never meet his unknown son.

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by justin007000 on Feb 24, 2009 4:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

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Will I bother to come back in time to conceive the leader of the resistance that defeats SkyNet?

Would I really risk my life to battle a cyborg, roid-rage governor in my quest to get a little strange from Linda Hamilton?

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 24, 2009 5:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

A very cracked out looking and acting Linda Hamilton

by Reynard on Feb 24, 2009 6:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

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gotta be!

by saboscork on Feb 24, 2009 10:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

If we didn't have Gonzalez

I would say do it. But since we have his payroll, we have to go with him (if healthy) or one of the backups (Keppinger, Hairston, Janish).

Speaking of all of this, if the Reds don’t think Valakia or Frazier are MLB Shortstops, why not move Brandon Phillips now? Think in two years:

LF- Votto
CF- Stubbs
RF- Bruce
3B- Francisco
SS-Phillips
2B- Frazier or Valakia
1B- Alonso
C- Hanigan

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by MixFMKyle on Feb 24, 2009 3:31 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Can't do that

BP should not be hitting 2nd.

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by Paul Householder on Feb 24, 2009 3:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

damn!

I forgot all about that. Seriously, thought this makes so much sense to me. Maybe it will happen in next year when Sea Bass is gone, or once the Reds are out of things this year.

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by MixFMKyle on Feb 24, 2009 3:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I doubt Frazier plays 2B

he’s kinda big for 2B. I’d say he’s more likely to end up at 3B or OF if he doesn’t play SS.

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by Slyde on Feb 24, 2009 3:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

How can you be too big for 2B but be ok for shortstop?

I don’t know how to write this in a way that doesn’t sound rude, but i don’t mean it to be so.

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by The Crushinator on Feb 24, 2009 7:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

it just seems like bigger guys don’t play the position. Only 5 players 6’3" or taller have played more than 100 games at 2B in a season for a combined 11 such seasons. Alexei Ramirez was the first to do it in 30 years last year.

There have been 15 such players at SS for a combined 70 seasons (including 47 in the last 25 years).

I don’t know if there is a bias or a legitimate reason, but that’s the way it is.

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by Slyde on Feb 24, 2009 8:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Red Oester Cult

Ron immediately came to mind. Though a beanpole, he seemed pretty lanky. Per BBRef, 6-2, 190 lbs. The 1981 perm mighta’ bumped him to 6-3, though:

Interesting (to me) to look at his line since that was the Stone Age— no one talked OPS or K/BB ratios; Fantasy leagues were called “Rotisserie” and tallied by hand from box scores while you walked to school uphill in the snow; but that was OK because you only got a handful of Reds games on TV,anyhow— usually on UHF channel 19. But I digress.

Ronnie for his career: .256/.323/.356, OPS+ 87; Best Season (1981): .271/.342/.398, OPS+ 109

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by "Red" Moskau on Feb 25, 2009 6:11 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

He was supposedly one of Marge's favorites

and hung on with the team a couple of years later than he otherwise might have.

by ken on Feb 25, 2009 8:52 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

from what I remember,

he also played really good defense, and played a pretty second base down the stretch in 1990 when either Bobby Doran or the great Mariano Duncan was injured. Huge pinch hit in the 1990 World Series.

by timb116 on Feb 26, 2009 9:38 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs