Honestly i was not sure about rowand at all. I felt it was his make or break season in a white sox uniform. I stuck with him because he has always been one of my favorite players because of his all out hustle and his good attitude. Last year i thought if we traded konerko we would regret it because i felt we would be able to get more than just perez after a bounce back year. Makes no sense to trade a guy while he has his lowest possible value unlees it is nothing more than a salary dump. I mean did anyone actually expect him to have back to back years like he had in 2003? 2003 was a fluke and nothing more.
I think i am gonna give him one more year since he is yet to have a year with 500 at-bats. But if he is indeed the starting second baseman and does not improve his stolen base total and all the other good stuff. I think it would be time to trade him.
I do not consider .262 decent i guess and a .342 obp is not very good imo. It seems we agree on everything else outside of that. Hasn't someone gotten his batting average against lefties in the minors before?
Everything about willie is what ifs. What if he can learn how to bunt. What if he can learn how to steal a base. What if he can learn how to be more agressive on the base paths. What if he ever learns how to hit left handed pitching.....
I don't think what i said is really unfair. He ended the year with an era near 5 and if someone said he was an up and coming star that would be foolish imo. I know he is young, and i know he has a really good chance of busting out at any moment but until he proves that he can be more consistent for a longer period of time i don't think he should be considered one. If anyone wants to think or say he is that is cool, i just do not agree.
I have nothing against him, i just don't think he would or should be considered an up and coming star with an era in the 5's and 6's throughout the majority of the year. Is that an unfair thing to say?
I think he will be a good pitcher never said otherwise but he is not the best starter on the team at this point. I still think it is a pretty fair thing to say that they have little to no starting pitching. I do like whip alot because it is one of the better ways if not the best way to evaluate a pitcher.
I have never said he won't be, but i still feel he has a ways to go to be considered an up and coming star. Era around 4.25 over a full year i would start saying that.
Edit: It is qwerty not gwerty, you have said thta like 3 times.
His era was in the 5's and 6's the majority of the year. I don't think he would be considered an up and coming star on any team while pitching like that.
His stuff may be electric but apparently he has not learned how to use it yet. I could give a s*** what his win loss record is. But i do look at whip, era, baa, and pitches per game.
Nomar wants to get a 1 year deal to get his stock up for one more big pay day. I don't think he will be signing anything more than a one year deal unless some team is willing to vastly overpay.
They are at least 2 year away from getting really serious i feel. Even with one of them their starting pitching will be horrid. They do have the makings of a pretty nice pen with a pretty potent offense.
Percival would only sign with a team that he would be the closer. So that is a very very strange thing for them to say that. I highly doubt that the tigers convinced him to set-up.