Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
January 07, 2009
Strong at the Wrong Position

Bill Center starts a series on the Padres by position at first base. The title says it all, "At one position, at least - first base - the Padres organization is flush." Let's face it, that's not a position where a team wants to be deep in their organization. The Diamondbacks were busy making themselves deep at shortstop, and were able to turn one of those into an outfielder. If you have a log jam at shortstop, you can move the player to another position, or trade for some value. If a player is stuck behind a good first baseman, there isn't much room to maneuver. Sure, the Padres can trade one of them away, but it looks like there's not much of a market for first basemen right now. This is a surprising organizational mistake by a group of pretty smart baseball people.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:19 PM | Team Evaluation | TrackBack (0)
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It's a lot easier to develop 1B than other positions. Plus there's a certain randomosity in developing baseball players because you get kids at different ages at different levels of experience. The Giants at one time brought up Bill White, Orlando Cepeda, Willie McCovey and Felipe Alou in a 5 year stretch. 2 MVP's and HOFers, 1 perennial GG winner and 100 rbi guy and another real solid pro.

Posted by: bandit at January 9, 2009 11:25 AM
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