Barmes is going to go into the starting lineup, it was announced tonight – so Sanchez is gonna grab some bench. Fact is that the dude could have hit like Barry Lamar 2001 and fielded like Ozzie and he WAS going to be benched as soon as Barmes came back. Because 3.7 mill is more money than minimum wage. That simple.
Same reason that Carlos Lee, in spite of complete loss of hitting ability, is still hitting cleanup and Brett Wallace isn’t.
Will be interesting to see how long Barmes will stay in the starting lineup if/when he stinks it up with the bat. Sanchez has been a good #2 guy
Inglett, who has had 2 solid singles and 2 bloop hits and a lot of strikeouts and groundouts, is going to have to pass through waivers. Bogusevic will be kept on the 25 man because, as we saw, Bourgeois can play second AND he can play it well. We don’t need another utility guy because Sanchez is gonna be that guy, although he can NOT play third, AND we have Downs.
Tags: Houston Astros, MLB
I wonder what will happen when Keppinger is ready to come back.
If I were running the Astros, it’d be pretty hard for me to bench Sanchez with the way he has been hitting the ball. I know that some people who don’t really know all that much about baseball, like Ed Wade, think that you have to have middle infielders who hit home runs, like Bill Hall has(n’t) so far. I sort of like having a couple of guys like Keppinger and Sanchez around who get on base a lot and don’t strike out all the time. Seems to me you could have those guys hitting in front of guys who are supposed to be big hitters, like Carlos Lee, Hunter Pence, and Chris Johnson, and let those big hitters knock the ball out of the yard or at least drive in a few runs.
I guess I shouldn’t be so critical of poor ole Ed Wade. After all, it makes perfect sense to go out and get players like Barmes, Bill Hall, Kaz Matsui, and Pedro Feliz. And hey, just look at the stellar bullpen he put together. Ole Ed’s a great baseball man.
Why didn’t Ed try to sign Ozzie Smith to make a comeback? Hell, he’s not that much older than Barmes
becky and all yall
check out this entry from 0ct 07 when we were looking for a second baseman – check out who i wanted…