Lots of great quotes in there. Hairstons was awesome, saying how spring training stats don't mean shit but that Puig is still awesome... Greinke saying the OF was "sexy", that GM quote, and then Moylan asking about SS lol
you mean there is 'someone' at Yahoo who can write? No shit? I agree that was a better than average written story
Grienke is a full on dork... he should have media anxiety. :doh: I like the whole SS idea but truthfully the best SS are born SS. Kind of like NBA PG's. Some people were just born with that fast twitch physical dexterity that most of us don't. Whereas if you can hit .300 then you can bluff at an OF position, case in point Manny. We'd all groan at his errors but as long as he hit .300 no one cares...
There really isn't anything we can do about it. We need a 5 hitter but there isn't a place to put him. It sucks but it's just the reality. If there is another way to wedge him into that lineup let me know. On that note, Carl Crawford will be in LF tomorrow according to Dylan Hernandez.
agreed as much as i want him with the big club, he needs to play every day plus there's something a lot of us (myself included) either didn't know or didn't factor in: By breaking camp with Puig, the Dodgers would start his service clock. If they wait about three weeks to call him up, it would ensure control of Puig through the 2019 season. Assuming he stays in the major leagues from his debut, starting him in L.A. this season means he could hit free agency following the 2018 season. unless crawford has a setback and/or absolutely can't go, it makes sense -- at least for the first three weeks -- to start him in double-a
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/true-s...ins-dodgers-for-season-s-start-004409427.html Story on Puig on yahoo home page.
Irish, you beat me to it. I came on to post the above article. Regardless of how any of us feel about what has happened so far this spring this article can make all of cry with joy that we are Dodger fans.
I posted the same thing somewhere if not here the other day and was corrected so I will now issue the same correction and it should make us all cry and say Ned you freaking done well either that or Stan thank you for giving Ned a brain. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ng-a-monster-spring-with-the-dodgers/2005857/ If he truly becomes a monster this could be the greatest contract negotiated by a GM in the history of the game. Of course we would have to pay him more and not stay with this contract at the risk of ruining a good thing. Should make him ours through the 2019 season regardless.
Certainly there are drawbacks to the idea of plopping a 22-year-old Cuban in his first full season of professional baseball in front of 50,000 people in a city that can eat alive a kid who signed a $42 million contract after spending his first two decades living in a totalitarian country where there's no such thing as a working wage. since when did we become a city that can eat a kid alive? most nights are too busy w cell phones and beach balls to even boo.
Hey and for $42,000,000.00 he can endure a boo or two... WTF... People talk about bruising him like he's a fresh fruit for pete's sake...
but not so much... He's going to be sent down to AA either way because the Dodgers can lock him up for an extra year. Nothing else matters... the Dodgers will waste the first 30 days of the season simply to obtain the extra year of contract. No doubt.
That's when you know you have a special talent. I recall Tampa doing that with Longoria 5 or 6 years ago.
Lol what a buzz killington What was he saying about Kemp when he was a raw 22 year old? Guys develop. They get better. They learn. Can't just enjoy a guy who's hitting balls that could decapitate guys--have to try to be the cooler head. Nobody knows what he's gonna be. But he's fucking good and could get better too. Keith Law knows baseball. But shut up. Valid points but loses me when he declares to know the future. "Optimistic view would be hitting 30 HR one day"...pretty bogus to say it with such conviction. I think Puig's best case scenario is a little better than that. And "TOOLS" is a pretty undefined term at this point in someone's career. You can have tools you don't optimize. I see a lot of natural tools he will hopefully optimize.
I like Keith Law. I am hoping beyond hope that he is hedging his bets because he is afraid to buy into the hype. According to the worst announcer in sports--the white sox broadcaster who will not be named---Jarin told him that he thinks Puig is the best he has ever seen. I also wonder if Law saw him get 3 hits in tonight's game, turn a single into a double, and take third on a bad throw to first.
There's probably an underlying complex of Puig being a guy nobody really knew much about in great length and these guys have their big lists of who's supposed to be the next coming of god and when an unknown Cuban pops up he doesn't belong in that exclusive club. The kid can play. I don't think Puig is an MVP in the making or anything but a fringe star he could become...we don't know and I think Law is being a tad unfair trying to predict what the best case scenario for Puig is at this point.
