There’s a new column up at mlb.com, rantings and ravings about trades and the players in the big leagues who will be the best players in baseball in five years.
Also, if you’ve been following the Erubiel Durazo story this week, he’s been benched for ordinary rest, benched against Livan Hernandez for reasons we’re unsure of and benched because the hand that hurt so badly he missed six weeks of the season was hurting again.
Pardon me, and I know he’s going to hit six homers tonight to make a monkey of me again, but if you’re counting on him to be some kind of star, I think you’re going to be disappointed.
Just as I love all the hand-wringing at Baseball Prospectus about Jeremy Giambi, I’m betting that Durazo ultimately confounds their aggressively singular view of the world, too. The point is that there are human elements to all this, and if you stick too closely to the metrics you may just end up championing Roberto Petagine long past anyone cares.
Cheers.