Your 3/23 Baseball Prospectus 2009 Nugget
Baseball | Baseball Prospectus - Stephen Hawking
by Memphis Bengal on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 at 01:55pm
When you get a chance to fully peruse the 2009 BP Annual, make sure you linger on their insightful rundown of the current state of the Padres ownership (and their review of San Diego’s checkered ownership history). It sets the stage to properly appreciate this note on likely 2009 SS for San Diego, Luis Rodriguez:
“The Venezuelan took over for Khalil Greene when the latter was battered into submission by a hopped-up suitcase. Rodriguez isn’t much of a shortstop, has all the home-run potential of Stephen Hawking, and is a ’switch-hitter’ who checks his bat against left-handed pitching. Unless the Padres have acquired another shortstop by the time you read this, Rodriguez will start. It’s going to be a long year.“
They have not. And it will be.