I know Oz has mentioned Rowand as the CF but we'll have to watch in spring training,  things have a habit of changing.  Based on last year's numbers, as nice as Aaron played, I have to give Pods the edge.

 

 

Great problem to have...this is probably the most excited I've ever been for the beginning of baseball...and after last year's offseason...it's a good change.

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Great problem to have...this is probably the most excited I've ever been for the beginning of baseball...and after last year's offseason...it's a good change.

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Glad to be here...heard about this site from another board I'm on...and figured it would be a good place to be throughout the season.

 

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Great problem to have...this is probably the most excited I've ever been for the beginning of baseball...and after last year's offseason...it's a good change.

 

Couldn't agree more!

Stats & Ozzie go for Aaron & so do I since I'm one of the biggest Aaron Rowand fans of all time.

We all know Rowand can play a damn decent CF. Just because Pods may be faster doesn't mean he'll cover more ground than Rowand. You have to consider positioning, reads, jump, etc. Unless Pods just proves to be a superior CF in ST, which I highly doubt, I think we'll see ARow roaming CF at the Cell.

I forgot about TangoTigers scouting report by the fans, for the fans -- http://www.tangotiger.net/scouting/scoutResults2004.html -- But it further enforces my belief that Rowand should be in Center.

 

Here's how the two ranked.

Player	Age	GP	Overall Position-Neutral	Instincts	FirstStep	Speed	Hands	Release	Strength	Accuracy	Ballots	Agreement Level
Rowand, Aaron	27	122	70	71	74	71	66	67	69	67	17	0.79
Podsednik, Scott	28	151	44	31	53	83	35	36	22	39	11	0.46

Rowand is in the top 20% in every defensive category. The agreement level is very low for Podsednik, but across the board his numbers are worse than rowands.  The low agreement means that some people rate him very high, while others rate him low (see Jeter/Valentin)

Very cool. As you point out, that low agreement indicates some fans just hate him. I, myself, have a personal bias toward speed in center -I used to campaign to put Willie out there full time- which predisposes me to favor Scott. But I must admit I have not seen nearly enough of him to back up my argument with anything more than Baseball-Reference stats. To get the CF job, all he's got to do is play better than Aaron Rowand, so he'll have to do pretty good to pull it off.