Compare & Contrast: A superficial glance at Third Base

They need to put bodies in them seats. Get me Beckham-Posh Spice and Rihannakemp and you’ll have the season ticket sales to sign Crawford and Lee. Which I guess means you won’t need Matt Kemp. And definitely not David Beckham.

mini-golf course.

I don’t think Frazier will make the club as a utility guy, but I doubt they want to use END like that either. Which means both would likely start the year in AAA anyway, and an older veteran or Drew Sutton-type will be signed to back up Rolen.

The good thing about an END trade means that Frazier might very well get plugged in to 3B on a full-time basis then. If that happens, his prospect status immediately shoots up IMO, because his bat might actually play there in the bigs. Then if Rolen goes down for a while, he can come up and be the long-term sub.

what i meant was: i think the organization is enamored with his upside, sees a lack of depth at his position, and will refrain from trading him.

That’s his average in AAA.

That’s his AAA OPS.

He’ll get on base enough.

but where would he do it? His ceiling might be a sort of “showcase” player that could swing a WMP-for-Arroyo style trade, but even that path seems blocked.

I don’t like ragging on players in general, and especially not for limitations that seem to be largely beyond their control, but the odds are stacked against him – and that BB/K rate is a critical reason why.

Of course I take his AAA stats with a grain of salt, but I really believe you guys are undervaluing him because he reminds you of a couple noteworthy busts.

.270/.300/.500

This is what he’d do over the course of a season right now, at age 23. That’s his floor. Maybe it’s also his ceiling.

He might get better, he might not. I wouldn’t want to see him out there every day right now, by any stretch of the imagination, but I really think we ought to keep him around another year and find out what he’s got.

I can tell you he has a presence at the plate. He’s a big strong guy, but beyond that I got a sense that he really belonged up there mashing. I really do believe he could become a great hitter and it would be a shame if it was for another franchise.

just saw this, so ignore my earlier post.

in Japan?

He’s older than Uribe, but he’d put together a better year in 2009 in terms of rate stats.

Uribe is going to require at least two years and some assurances he’d start. So if the Reds could spring for that, Janish would be in the caddy shack again. If Rolen or BP went down, I wouldn’t expect much flexibility – Uribe would probably stay at SS. In ‘12, you’d have a left side of the infield making close to $15MM, with a combined age of 70 or so.

This is in place of playing winter ball, so my guess is that the Reds are hoping to see if he can learn to play either 3b *highly doubtful) or LF (possible if he can improve on his speed.

and I still don’t want to lose him, but offering him arb might be the best thing Walt can do. He can say, “We’d love to have you back one more year and work out a fair salary. If you want that, accept arb. If not, good luck to you”.

I’m torn on Rhodes. I think I’d probably rather take the draft pick, but I’m not sure he’d get signed if a team was going to lose it’s first rounder for him.

I don’t want any possibility of Cabrera on the team, so I say don’t even offer him arb.

I think people might bite on Rhodes, since he really was dominant this year. Doubt there’s anyone who signs Ramon if it costs em a first rounder

1st round picks are going to be much more valuable this coming year than they normally are.