Thursday, November 10, 2005
From “Sayonara” Vinny to “So Young” Zimmy
November 04, 2005
The torch has been passed in D.C. (Dell Comics) Land. Batman Ryan can soon begin turning heads again.
The Nats (remember them?) have just traded incumbent 3rd baseman Vinny Castilla to the San Diego Padres in exchange for starter Brian Lawrence (of Arabia) in order to make room for phenom Ryan Zimmerman, the youngest player in Expo/Nationals history to ever bat clean up, with all apologies to “Boots” Day and “Coco” Laboy.
Suddenly, there’s renewed hope for peace (and victory) in the Middle East of the National League.This move makes a lot of sense, despite Lawrence’s less than stellar career won-loss mark of 49-61 as the 29 year-old is a most dependable hurler when it comes time to eat up innings, having pitched over 200 innings three of the last four years, narrowly missing last year with 196.
Meanwhile, this only confirms what all of us had concluded last September when the 21 year-old Zimmerman, the number four draft pick last June, proved to be one of the rare Nats who didn’t wilt under a pennant race pressure (he had 10 doubles in 58 at-bats and a .397 BA in September) though there’s absolutely no guarantee that “Zimmy Stardust” will get to experience the thrill of another race anytime soon.
Unless they get rid of other under-achievers (you all know who these are) and replace them with players that view a major league season as constituting six months of work, and not merely four months. It might also help if they get bought by someone (anyone at this stage will do), so that their player payroll becomes on a par with other teams not named Yankees, Red Sox, Braves and Cardinals.
So who will be the next culprit to be shown the door I wonder?
Source: http://www.all-baseball.com/
The torch has been passed in D.C. (Dell Comics) Land. Batman Ryan can soon begin turning heads again.
The Nats (remember them?) have just traded incumbent 3rd baseman Vinny Castilla to the San Diego Padres in exchange for starter Brian Lawrence (of Arabia) in order to make room for phenom Ryan Zimmerman, the youngest player in Expo/Nationals history to ever bat clean up, with all apologies to “Boots” Day and “Coco” Laboy.
Suddenly, there’s renewed hope for peace (and victory) in the Middle East of the National League.This move makes a lot of sense, despite Lawrence’s less than stellar career won-loss mark of 49-61 as the 29 year-old is a most dependable hurler when it comes time to eat up innings, having pitched over 200 innings three of the last four years, narrowly missing last year with 196.
Meanwhile, this only confirms what all of us had concluded last September when the 21 year-old Zimmerman, the number four draft pick last June, proved to be one of the rare Nats who didn’t wilt under a pennant race pressure (he had 10 doubles in 58 at-bats and a .397 BA in September) though there’s absolutely no guarantee that “Zimmy Stardust” will get to experience the thrill of another race anytime soon.
Unless they get rid of other under-achievers (you all know who these are) and replace them with players that view a major league season as constituting six months of work, and not merely four months. It might also help if they get bought by someone (anyone at this stage will do), so that their player payroll becomes on a par with other teams not named Yankees, Red Sox, Braves and Cardinals.
So who will be the next culprit to be shown the door I wonder?
Source: http://www.all-baseball.com/
