DiamondMind

Ugh, pull him.

The sky is blue.

Damn Cabrera can hit.

Granderson is everything I wish Soriano was right now.

Until Foxy comes up again. :beg:

Well yeah, he had better matchups. He was Derosa's backup for the most part. With Derosa gone, and Aramis injured, Fontenot is being exposed. Exposed...that was the word I was looking for.

Font is my biggest disappointment this year. I really thought he was capable of coming in on an everyday basis and putting up a .285 .360 line with 15 HR pop. Same here. :( And really, there was nothing that would lead you believe otherwise before this year. I mean sure he's going to regress from that 906 OPS or whatever he posted last year....but I didn't think this would be what would happen upon him receiving a starting role. Really depressing. Nothing? He hit double digit HR once as a pro and just barely put up those AVG/OBP as a relatively older minor leaguer. His pre-2008 numbers didn't come close to what he did last year and every indication was he was not an everyday player, because he can't hit against LHP. I thought he'd be a little better than he's been, but not much. His numbers are dragged down by a 400 OPS against LHP in more PA than he should really be getting against them. But his .246/.342/.401 line against RHP is not that disappointing from realistic expectations. Last year was a fluke. He's 29 now and he's not getting any better. I don't think it was a fluke at all. Serious regression, but not a "fluke". With that said, I didn't realize how lame he's been over his career against LHP. Is it fair to assume that last year he had better matchups picked out for him by Lou, and this year he's being figured out by the league and basically being overmatched?

I don't get it!! Hanging a curve or offspeed or whatever that was on an 0-2 count? WHY!?

/puts head in hands /sigh

Font is my biggest disappointment this year. I really thought he was capable of coming in on an everyday basis and putting up a .285 .360 line with 15 HR pop. How in the world is Fontenot a bigger disappointment than Bradley? We grew to love Fontenot last year, where as we were skeptical of Bradley from day one? The Cubs spent huge money and presumeably traded Derosa in order to be able to obtain Bradley. He's a much bigger disappointment. Eh, I see your point. I don't think there's a point in debating this either. They're both pretty massive black holes of disappointment....I think we can agree on that.

Font is my biggest disappointment this year. I really thought he was capable of coming in on an everyday basis and putting up a .285 .360 line with 15 HR pop. How in the world is Fontenot a bigger disappointment than Bradley? We grew to love Fontenot last year, where as we were skeptical of Bradley from day one?

Font is my biggest disappointment this year. I really thought he was capable of coming in on an everyday basis and putting up a .285 .360 line with 15 HR pop. Same here. :( And really, there was nothing that would lead you believe otherwise before this year. I mean sure he's going to regress from that 906 OPS or whatever he posted last year....but I didn't think this would be what would happen upon him receiving a starting role. Really depressing.

Yea it was. If Hill can get him in here as well, with 2 outs, that'd be awesome.

Standing triple for Fukudome!

The legs are the first thing to go. yeah but they didnt go at a normal rate. he went from 40 stolen bases to below average in no time. I don't see how he went to below average in no time. He still stole 19 in 2007 and had a higher rate. The difference is he attempted more in Washington. But that's a stupid strategy. He got thrown out a lot. When he was in his mid-to-late 20's he stole just as much with a higher rate of success. And as he passed into his early 30's he started to get injured and his legs got worse. It wasn't over night. He's a worse runner now than he was in 2007, pre-injury. Good post. This is pretty much exactly what happened.

Ran over Theriot trying to make a wide ranging play rather than letting Theriot make the easy play on a ball hit right to him. The Cajun Connection! Why'd Kasper give Fox such a hard time on that ball yesterday, but kind of glossed over that Fontenot gaffe? edit - Newsflash, apparently Fox can also hit the baseball well.

The legs are the first thing to go. I thought the mind was the first to go? And that'd be a good argument, did his legs or mind crap out first.

Sigh.

/shrug

You would think that major league baseball players would be capable of counting to 3, and our outfielders continue to have difficulty. That ish is unforgivable.

Soriano..... come on man.

Fuku still has an OBP near .400 and we dont have anyone better to play CF. And that's why I'd like to see him batting leadoff, or at the minimum #2, so that he at least has a CHANCE to be driven in when he's on base 40% of the time. When he's got Fontenot or Soto or some crap behind him, when he's hitting 6th, he's completely worthless in the lineup.

I think Dempsey and Ryan Braun were separated at birth.

I was amazed he stayed in the game in the first place.