Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 01, 2008
Philosophical Player

Who knew Scott Rolen was a deep thinker? He put the two tough Jays losses into perspective:

"I was actually encouraged by the loss we had," Rolen said of Tuesday's effort. "I had encouraging thoughts. There were some people pissed off. There were some people fed up. I didn't see anyone waiting for the next shoe to drop, or whatever the cliché is.

"Down on the field, it wasn't, `How are we going to lose this one?' What I saw was a very strong, competitive game. We had a shot to win in the ninth inning. We were pissed. I saw emotions that a lot of people were angry. I'm not a yeller or screamer, throw-my-helmet, slam-my-bat guy, but there was, to me, good intensity. I think a lot of guys wore that one a little bit," Rolen said.

He goes on quite a bit more, and praises Gibbons for building a winning mentality on the team. Rolen's contributing two, with six hits in five games, five of them for extra bases.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:19 AM | Players | TrackBack (0)
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Scott Rolen is the Greatest 3rd Basemen in Blue Jays History.

But seriously... his competition is a season and a half of Glaus and Kelly Gruber.

Posted by: Andrew at May 1, 2008 11:53 AM

Ed Sprague

Posted by: Bandit at May 1, 2008 12:51 PM

Sprague is not even close... his best year came with the Pirates... other than that, he was a below average 3B.

Posted by: Andrew at May 1, 2008 01:51 PM

He had 36 HRs 101 RBI with Toronto in '96.

Posted by: bandit at May 1, 2008 10:10 PM
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