Brad Eldred

[TruffleShuffle]

2-4 with a double and an opposite field HR that didn't look like it was hit that well.

 

In the NSBB home run derby, I waited to see if he'd make the Pirates and hold down a starting job. He isn't starting and therefore I didn't pick him as my wild card, but he has amazing power. I saw him play in Altoona in early 2005, and he was just destroying that league.

 

If his plate discipline is improved, he could end up being a really interesting player. It would seem that he's going to mostly spot start this year, unless Nady comes down with an injury.

[BigbadB]

Eldred plays some outfield? I thought he was strictly a 1b?

[TruffleShuffle]

Eldred plays some outfield? I thought he was strictly a 1b?

 

according to the box score, he played RF yesterday. I can't imagine that he's even an average fielder out there, though.

[Jake]

He's supposedly not bad out there - I haven't had a chance to actually watch him out there at all.

 

He played Righ a bit in College, but never after he was drafted. He played out there a lot in the spring.

 

But, with LaRoche at first, he had to do something to make the team.

 

That his first start was at the Great American Small Park isn't a co-incidence.

[rawaction]

Why are the Pirates hitting Bay 5th? Doesn't make any sense for him to hit BEHIND Laroche.

[Derwood]

everything I read preseason said that Eldred was stuck behind LaRoche because he could only play 1st.

[Jake]

Why are the Pirates hitting Bay 5th? Doesn't make any sense for him to hit BEHIND Laroche.

 

Freddie

LaRoche

Bay

 

Gives them a 3-4-5 of Righty, Lefty, Righty.

 

Most of us want to see that as a 2-3-4 instead of 3-4-5.

[Jake]

everything I read preseason said that Eldred was stuck behind LaRoche because he could only play 1st.

 

That was early spring training. So, Eldred took the attitude of, If I want playing time, I'll play some place else. He approached management and asked to try the outfield. They liked his attitude and gave him a shot, and he played it well enough.

 

He'll probably get a start every other week between first and right.

[Derwood]

everything I read preseason said that Eldred was stuck behind LaRoche because he could only play 1st.

 

That was early spring training. So, Eldred took the attitude of, If I want playing time, I'll play some place else. He approached management and asked to try the outfield. They liked his attitude and gave him a shot, and he played it well enough.

 

He'll probably get a start every other week between first and right.

 

pirates are bad about having good players with no position. They wasted Craig Wilson because of that

[Jake]

everything I read preseason said that Eldred was stuck behind LaRoche because he could only play 1st.

 

That was early spring training. So, Eldred took the attitude of, If I want playing time, I'll play some place else. He approached management and asked to try the outfield. They liked his attitude and gave him a shot, and he played it well enough.

 

He'll probably get a start every other week between first and right.

 

pirates are bad about having good players with no position. They wasted Craig Wilson because of that

 

I wonder about Craig Wilson.

 

The Yankees left him off of the playoff roster, and made no attempt to resign him They chose unheralded rookies and Meinktw-however-he-spells-it over him. No one made him an offer in an offseason of over the top spending. Not many in the league seem high on him.