Comments on: Injuries Hamper Josh Hamilton

By: yochuckie

yochuckie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:07:11 +0000

Texas has plans to start him in RF instead of CF, hopefully this will preserve the wear and tear of playing CF day in day out. Quite frankly I don’t know why it took the Rangers this long to figure out. I guess it’s not coincidental that this franchise has never won a Championship. Smarten up Rangers.

By: elgringo79

elgringo79 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:51:36 +0000

JD Drew, Jr.

Another thought. Hamilton and Smoak should not be on the same team together.

By: R M

R M — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:30:24 +0000

he can still be good in roto….

By: thehemogoblin

thehemogoblin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:13:13 +0000

Trade Young. Everyone seems to think that he’s good defensively… I seem to recall him being a butcher.

By: Pat G

Pat G — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:02:04 +0000

My biggest problem with hamilton is whether he will ever help you when it counts most in fantasy, september.

He just doesn’t seem durable enough to make it there without serious off time during the season. I had him in a dynasty league in 2008, and flipped him and sheets mid season (with villalona) for sizemore and lincecum… which looking back on it now is probably the best trade i’ve ever made…. He had just come off his dirty first half and HR derby… and he hasnt strung together a successful second half in any season he’s played in. I think it’s pretty safe to assume that he did some significant damage to his body with the years of cocaine/crack abuse

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:32:05 +0000

And do what with Young?

Smoak isn’t ready for the big leagues yet. When he comes, Davis and Smoak should be 1B/DH.

By: thehemogoblin

thehemogoblin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:45:52 +0000

In reality, he should play the field about as often as Rocco Baldelli. They both seem to have the same sort of “Don’t look at me wrong, I might shatter” thing going on with their body. Texas should use him as their primary DH, start Davis at third, Smoak at first, resign Byrd for center, and find some sort of reclamation project for left field. It doesn’t take much to hit well in Arlington, after all.

By: mo

mo — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:05:45 +0000

great read

I think hamilton will have a great year as long as they limit his innings in the OF

By: Kampfer

Kampfer — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:23:32 +0000

No one can predict injury — not even on Bedard. All you can do is guess. 1~2 DL stint seems a reasonable guess on a player labeled injury-prone.

By: SmallBall

SmallBall — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:53:19 +0000

Great article on Hamilton. I think he is one of those guys that could make or break a fantasy season next year.

He represents (next year) a guy who can be taken in the middle that could put up first or second round numbers.

However how can you really predict Hamilton as “serving a DL stint or two?”

Other than Eric Bedard, you can’t.

When people talk about the exception to the rule, as far as baseball goes, Hamilton is the exception in the truest form.