That's nice. I'm a forward-thinker. "That's nice", now foward-think this. In Lopez's 7 season, he has posted an OPS above .750 once. That's nice. He wasn't a full-time starter until he was 25 and got a lot of on the job training as a young player. Since then he's been pretty good with most of his OPS being OBP-driven (which means OPS underrates him). That's nice. Remove 2005 and his .258/.321/.399 line ges even uglier. His .294 OBP in 377 ABs this year screams "pretty good job" to me. Did I mention he is an awful defensive SS? That's nice but he's been good two of three years as a starter, which is more than Cedeno will probably say. He's not good defensively, but not anemic. He'll get the job done. He's not any worse than Theriot. I would rather have A-rod