Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 24, 2007
Bad Trade

I turned on the Cardinals game in the sixth inning. The Pirates homered to cut the lead to 2-1, and they had a man on first with one out and LaRoche. LaRoche, I'll note is batting fourth today despite a slugging percentage in the low .300s. He grounded into a double play to end the inning. Adam is hitting very poorly, and on top of that he's a left-handed hitter who hits into a lot of double plays. That was his eighth of the season, fifth among all hitters in the National League. Mike Gonzalez is hurt, but when he's pitched he pitched well for the Braves.

Until Adam starts hitting, there's no way he should be in the middle of the order. Breaking up Sanchez and Bay with LaRoche is idiotic.

Update: Gorzelanny is hit on the thumb by a batted ball in the bottom of the inning. He comes out of the game, but he had thrown 118 pitches and the bases were loaded, so he was likely to come out of the game anyway.


Posted by David Pinto at 02:48 PM | Trades | TrackBack (0)
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What defines starting to hit? The guy hit like 136 in April, that is tough to turn around quickly. He's over 200 now, or was at one point, and I think without checking he's hit like 278 over the last two weeks, with like 9 or 10 RBI. Unfortunate that he bounced into the double play. But the Pirates traded for him to be a middle of the order guy. And now that he has started to produce again, they've got to put him back there. They can't write him off after one horrendous month.

Posted by: Raff at May 24, 2007 03:14 PM
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