January 15, 2009
Young to Third
Michael Young accepts the move to third base:
While the 32-year-old Young said Thursday he doesn't think it's the right time in his career to switch positions again, he said he's ready to focus on preparing for next season and he didn't want the pending switch to be a distraction to him or the team.
"After some careful consideration over the last month or so and in an effort not to let this thing drag out," Young said during a conference call, "I decided to put an end to this and start bearing down on playing third base."
That's good. When someone is being paid millions of dollars, they should be very willing to make moves like this. As much as I dislike Pete Rose, he played anywhere the Red decided to place him. If he were in the lineup, it didn't matter what glove Pete wore. More players should be that open to these types of moves.
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Oh Captain, my captain - what will you do?
As long as Rose played on a rug so his groundballs went thru for hits.
When Rose bad-mouthed Braves reliever G. Garber
for bearing down & ending Rose's streak, you knew what a me-firster Rose was.
Not too surprising, he really didn't have any choice. Glad he accepted reality, and I hope he was sincere about helping Andrus.
Young was a gold glove 2b man. He moved to short for Soriano, has played a excellent SS over the years. He just now gets a gold glove at SS and the team says:" you have to move to 3b". I wouldn't be willing to do it either. Credit to Young for putting his team before himself.
I don't know.
I keep going back to the Mets team where Mike Piazza was forced to play first, after taking a rare beating in the media, and a young Jose Reyes, new to the league, was forced to play second so that Kaz Matsui could play short.
The team won 71 games and manager and the entire front office was -- correctly -- fired.
Baseball is not easy. If it was, we'd all be major league third basemen. Sometimes the players know more about it than the front office does.
Yes I know that the Texas front office has Nolan Ryan, and there is nothing about playing the infield that Nolan Ryan doesn't know about.
We'll see.
I think we forget sometimes the tremendous pride these players take in trying to play their position to the utmost. If they make the switch and then start piling up the errors, the fans and press will be all over them.
I think we forget sometimes the tremendous pride these players take in trying to play their position to the utmost. If they make the switch and then start piling up the errors, the fans and press will be all over them.