ESPN.com: MLB – Bautista to miss at least three months with injury
I somehow missed this story yesterday. Bautista will be missed by the teams you picked him up. He was demonstrating that his breakout post-season in 2001 wasn’t a fluke.
The notion that Quinton McCracken is going to end up a regular outfielder in Arizona is amusing, at best. McCracken has gotten chances to play on some of the weakest offensive teams in modern history (Tampa Bay, Minnesota, need I say more?) and hasn’t been able to contribute, much less stick. And in his prime he was only able to hit .290 in Colorado.
He’s no longer in his prime and won’t be a factor.
Because David Delucci has never really shown much and Jose Guillen has shown too much, it seems entirely plausible that Durazo could end up in the outfield and Mark Grace could become a more or less regular first baseman again. Stranger things have happened.