QUOTE(southsideirish @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 11:44 AM)
Jermaine Dye hasn't committed an error at shortstop either. By the way that helped out my fantasy team a great deal. To be able to put a stick like Dye in my MI spot is just awesome.
However, I digress. Hibbard, there is not a statistic out there that can actually prove someone's defensive worth. It is really impossible to do that. Just watch the games and you will notice how damn good Uribe is at SS. Watch the games and you will see such a huge downgrade in quality when Pablo fills in for Uribe. Uribe is a stud in the field and that should not even be up for debate.
His bat I would like to improve. However, is Pablo really that huge of an upgrade offensively that you would be able to deal with the huge downgrade defensively? Who is to say that if you start playing Pablo day in and day out that he will be that good offensively? Plus SS2K pointed out that Pablo has absolutely no power. There is no way I am taking a chance with him playing everyday when I am not making my team any better. Now if you want to acquire a SS like Vizquel then I can understand that and I am with you, however I am not for replacing him with Pablo as the everyday SS.
Hibbard, I understand you jsut want to try to make this team better, but this would not do that. This team is based on pitching and defense. The Sox are close to unbeatable when they don't create an error. You can't risk losing a guy like Uribe when your team is built like that.
Great response. I do appreciate that some of what Juan does is unquantifiable, and I may have been hasty in suggesting Pablo would be a great fill-in perse. I was honestly just surprised at how bad Juan was at the plate and coupled with what I viewed as mediocre defensive stats, I got on my pedestal and started shouting.
However, our most glaring deficiency is on offense it seems, and our most glaringly bad offensive player is Juan Uribe. Isn't there someone available that is better offensively and not a significant downgrade defensively?