Comments on: Slipping Through the Cracks http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/slipping-through-the-cracks/ Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary Wed, 22 May 2013 05:48:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: danny woytek http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/slipping-through-the-cracks/#comment-93386 danny woytek Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:29:32 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=8575#comment-93386 TD, did you mean Ruiz got busted or Val Pascucci? Just curious

]]> By: danny woytek http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/slipping-through-the-cracks/#comment-93377 danny woytek Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:51:15 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=8575#comment-93377 wasn’t aware of that td. makes more sense

]]> By: wobatus http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/slipping-through-the-cracks/#comment-93374 wobatus Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:30:59 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=8575#comment-93374 Well, no one expects him to OPS a thousand for a long stretch. But there. Alex Rios replaced with one aging slugger. Anymore Brian Giles and Alex Rios are god’s gift and Chone Figgins and Jason Kubel are overrated articles coming? You bet. Just teasing. Kinda. :)

]]> By: TD http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/slipping-through-the-cracks/#comment-93357 TD Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:32:52 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=8575#comment-93357 He also got busted hard for steroids a couple times, so I don’t think some teams were willing to take a chance on him.

]]> By: danny woytek http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/slipping-through-the-cracks/#comment-93334 danny woytek Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:07:20 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=8575#comment-93334 Seems as though there are lots of these guys in NL organizations especially at the AAA level. Right now here in Portland there’s Valentino Pascucci who has been with 6 NL organizations at the AAA level (career .276/.396/.490). He is large 6′ 6” and plays a sort of lumbering 1st base for the Beavers. He’s obviously not gonna get a chance in the SD org. (Gonzalez, Blanks), and he’ll be 31 in November.

]]> By: Joe R http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/slipping-through-the-cracks/#comment-93312 Joe R Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:07:05 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=8575#comment-93312 Kind of funny to remember how some people were rallying around Cito Gaston because John Gibbons “relied on walking” too much (another “rah rah boo stat geeks” cry). Wonder where that’s gone.

Obviously managing a team that has:
Robbie Alomar
Jeff Kent
good version of Candy Maldonado
Dave Winfield (he could still rake at 40)
John Olerud
Devon White
David Wells
Jack Morris
David Cone
etc

a TON of baseball know-how.

/end random cito gaston rant

]]> By: TomG http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/slipping-through-the-cracks/#comment-93308 TomG Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:01:48 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=8575#comment-93308 Somewhere Jesus Guzman nods in approval.

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