Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 19, 2004
Opportunity Knocks

Here's a story on the LSU sports site about former LSU Tiger Mike Fontenot. He's a 2nd base prospect with the Orioles, and the injury to Jerry Hairston has given him an opportunity to play. Hitting coach Terry Crowley has noticed:


With limited playing time since, Fontenot is 8-for-24 (.333) with six RBIs, second most on the team. That's an achievement for a guy generously listed at 5-foot-8 and wearing No. 73 who was considered an afterthought.

"I like his approach," Crowley said. "I like his quick bat. He's got some juice -- the ball flies off his bat. As a young player, he's selective at the plate and that's something you always like to see. If he stays selective -- because he's not a big guy -- he's going to get good pitches to hit."


I like a coach who sees selectivity as a positive, rather than as a lack of aggression. Mr. Fontenot looks promising.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:17 AM | Players | TrackBack (1)
Comments

Does anyone really care I the kid is 5-6 or 5-9? We don't need to worry about him being posted up on. The really funny thing is they do the same thing in hockey, where height is as irrelevant as it gets...unless you're a goalie.

Posted by: Al at March 19, 2004 11:51 AM

That's "if" the kid is 5-6 or 5-9.

Posted by: Al at March 19, 2004 11:51 AM

See my post referring here at http://soccerdad.baltiblogs.com/archives/001127.html

Posted by: David Gerstman at March 19, 2004 01:56 PM

Yeah, hasn't Houston debunked the myth of

tall pitchers = good pitchers

and

short pitchers = bad pitchers?

It's crazy! If someone is "short" (and I'm talking

Posted by: sabernar at March 19, 2004 03:00 PM

no, no one has debunked the myth of short = bad. almost every prospect report i read on pitchers by supposed stat geeks manages to add brownie points for height. as if a guy being 6'5" makes him have good mechanics, or means he won't get hurt or some other such rubbish. or he's stronger???? why is it that they say "it ain't the speed, it's the motion" as an afterthought?
same thing with hitters. bigger = better. no wonder steroids became such a problem.

Posted by: lisa gray at March 20, 2004 02:35 PM