Loading ...Willy Taveras. Willy Mays Hayes.
Separated at birth.
UPDATE: I love this quote by Taveras:
“I didn’t play all the time last year, for some reason,” he said. “I can only remember playing one Sunday game all year.
Taveras really doesn’t know the reason? How about a .302 on-base percentage!!!?!?!!!?!!
“Runs like Hayes, hits like shit”…
Maybe next off-season they can switch him with Omar Epps and no one will notice.
Didn’t WMH say he was going to steal 100 bases too? This is too funny.
As I recall Willie Mays Hays actually became a pretty good player once he got it. Maybe our Willy finally gets it.
Yeah, .302 OBP and still stole 68 bases. Few more points on that OBP and 100 bags is within reach.
Well Omar Epps looked pretty uncordinated when he was swinging the bat.
Truthfully I guess you could say that I am an optimist during Now until Mid May in that I really think the Reds will have a good season this year. The main thing is thay have to get off to a good start.
EE signed a two year deal by the way.
Willy needs to step into the pitches and take one for the team a little more often. Not only would he get on base, but it would make me smile.
i was impressed with the quote from willy, though, that was around that 100 sb prediction – basically, something like “if i can get on base enough” and “i’ll bunt a lot, get lots of infield hits”.
not sure if it’s likely or even possible, but at least he gets the idea that he has to concentrate on getting on base to steal the bases. so maybe there’s hope.
You gotta love his attitude and optimism. Some of you need to let him play in a Reds uniform first, before you decide you don’t like him.
Wouldn’t it be funny if Dusty starts making him do push-ups at the plate every time he pops it up.
I’m glad he has a great attitude, but, I’ve gotta say, what do we expect him to say?
100 stolen bases sounds real cool, but unless he’s Rickey Henderson, we’ve already had Vince Coleman.
Now…with the (utter lack of) offense that we have, his stolen bases may matter more than they did with Colorado. We have neutered the offense of this team, so if he’s stolen base rate is above 75% that helps. However…he MUST get on base more than 35% of the time, or we’d be better off with Adam Dunn leading off.
As for liking him or not…he’s just not a good ballplayer…I mentioned the other day that Baseball Prospectus is anticipating a Corey Patterson-like year for him, with less power.
Playing for the Rockies doesn’t just help homers, it also help batting average.
In other words, he was even worse than the stats show for last year.
To make matters worse…studies show that players do worse after leaving the Rockies than before…not just due to aging, but because playing in Colorado led them to changing their batting approach.
Knowing that he can bunt more will help…it will also endear him to fans and announcers who don’t understand that Adam Dunn’s offensive was nearly 50% more productive than Taveras’s is going to be…
If what you say above is true…why did Jocketty run out and sign him? Because he’s fast?
Because he’s fast?
Well, that would be Dusty’s reasoning.
Vince Coleman was a Cardinal…so was Jocketty…and the Cardinals of old, playing on the old Busch Stadium turf, were built around speed.
GAB ain’t.
Jocketty spent the 80s in the A’s system, though. He didn’t show up to St.L until ‘94.
Plead guilty to hyperbole; the Cardinals continued to build on similar principals