ESPN.com – MLB/PLAYOFFS2003 – Klapisch: Yanks facing eventful offseason
Rumors that the Yankees will trade Alfonso Soriano are rampant, and for all I know they may be accurate. What’s funny is that for two years all the talk about Soriano’s profound free-swinging ways and his defensive deficiencies were overshadowed by his rather large talents. But a truly woeful stretch in the postseason has made it seem as if he’s a horrible ballplayer.
Soriano was screwed up for sure during the playoffs, and like all players who don’t really know what’s a strike and what isn’t, he’s going to have times when he looks dreadful. But we don’t have to look any further than Reggie Sanders, whose career seemed even more tenuous than Soriano’s last year at this time, but whose perfectly fine 2003 campaign demonstrates that even when pitchers know how to get hitters out, they can’t always do it.