Comments on: Where’s Pedro Cerrano?

By: Steve Price

Steve Price — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:45:30 +0000

Plead guilty to hyperbole; the Cardinals continued to build on similar principals

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:14:13 +0000

Jocketty spent the 80s in the A’s system, though. He didn’t show up to St.L until ‘94.

By: Steve Price

Steve Price — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:07:01 +0000

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.

By: Y-City Jim

Y-City Jim — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:07:48 +0000

Because he’s fast?

Well, that would be Dusty’s reasoning.

By: Kurt Frost

Kurt Frost — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:24:32 +0000

If what you say above is true…why did Jocketty run out and sign him? Because he’s fast?

By: Steve Price

Steve Price — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:27:18 +0000

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…

By: RiverCity Redleg

RiverCity Redleg — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:49:48 +0000

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.

By: rpa

rpa — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:49:00 +0000

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.

By: preach

preach — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:35:28 +0000

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.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:04:20 +0000

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.

By: rob in stl

rob in stl — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:04:16 +0000

Yeah, .302 OBP and still stole 68 bases. Few more points on that OBP and 100 bags is within reach.

By: Mark in CC

Mark in CC — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:56:57 +0000

As I recall Willie Mays Hays actually became a pretty good player once he got it. Maybe our Willy finally gets it.

By: Sultan of Swaff

Sultan of Swaff — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:22:05 +0000

Didn’t WMH say he was going to steal 100 bases too? This is too funny.

By: John

John — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:10:17 +0000

Maybe next off-season they can switch him with Omar Epps and no one will notice.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:07:57 +0000

“Runs like Hayes, hits like shit”…