Comments on: Rockin’ in the Infield

By: Rox Girl

Rox Girl — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:58:33 +0000

The Rockies were able to hang onto Herrera with a minor league contract and an invite to the big league camp after non-tendering him.

I like how the team is starting to expand this depth to all the up the middle positions. At catcher this season Mike McKenry and Wilin Rosario had years big enough to draw attention, and while Dexter Fowler will probably be safe for a couple of seasons, the center field depth at the two short-season clubs was impressive with Charlie Blackmon, Delta Cleary, Scott Robinson, Leonardo Reyes all flashing quality tools, plus David Kandilas drawing some raves from Australian scouts, all bodes well that the team will have a steady supply of talent at the premium positions.

Now if they could only do something about getting some legit corners.

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:03:52 +0000

With middle infielders, though, you have depth at two positions: SS and 2B… three if you count utility infielder. You also know a few will flame out – and the Rockies non-tendered Herrera last night, which was surprising. They also serve as trading chips. Depth is never a negative.

By: bablue

bablue — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:46:11 +0000

To add on to what David Foy said, it’d be nice to have this kind of depth if you were the Red Sox and you could stash it for emergencies and use it for midseason trades to improve your club, but I’d rather just have a couple of really good guys then a bunch of decent talents (Utley/Rollins or Hanley/Uggla). Those are extreme examples but if I’m not mistaken Tulowitzki is the only guy here with potential to be more than average, Barmes really isn’t very good. On a team with as many needs as the Rockies (Corner OF’s and IF’s if they trade Atkins, SP, 2B) having a bunch of decent guys at one position doesn’t really help much.

By: David Foy

David Foy — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:17:29 +0000

Thanks for extremely informative post “Helpful” Harry

By: Helpful Harry

Helpful Harry — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:05:51 +0000

You are.

By: David Foy

David Foy — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:36:44 +0000

Is it considered a good thing to have that many players in your minor league system at one area? I’m of the mind that you should stock up on as much talent as you can get regardless of position and then just trade it away once you need to create space for the prospect you feel deserves the major league playing time. However, it seems to me that there is nothing positive to having this much talent in one area. None of them seem to be blow you out of the water talents and yet they are all talented enough to be considered to play in the majors at some point. Seems more headache than anything else. But maybe i’m seeing this all wrong.