Comments on: Jose Vidro, your 2009 designated hitter

By: philosofool

philosofool — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:29:32 +0000

[metacommentary, and this isn't a Griffey thread, not that difficult to understand]

By: philosofool

philosofool — Sun, 25 May 2008 01:20:42 +0000

[we can't advocate the benching of an exciting young player like this in favor of a Griffey acquisition, at least not in this thread]

By: bunk_medal

bunk_medal — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:19:22 +0000

25 – If Vidro performs as bad as is expected then nobody could blame the team for benching him. I think these arguments would only work if Vidro put up numbers that were in some way impressive.

By: JMHawkins

JMHawkins — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:01:23 +0000

And hear hear X. Or is it here here?

It’s “hear, hear” as in “hear him, hear him.”

Or in this case, “read read” I guess. Not to be confused with “Reed, Reed.”

By: ThePopeofChilitown

ThePopeofChilitown — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:58:55 +0000

Maybe Bavasi can trade Vidro for some bats.

By: Relyt

Relyt — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:50:50 +0000

If we’re the Knicks, I wanna see BB come down outta the front office and put on a uniform and manage the team himself!

By: Mike Snow

Mike Snow — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:01:45 +0000

Isn’t there some hope in that he’ll at least miss half the interleague games?

By: jro

jro — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:49:56 +0000

The most frustrating thing about this is that Vidro has been putting the ball in play and getting on base during the past week. It’s a spoonful of success in an ocean of failure, but methinks it’s just enough to give the FO enough of a reason to say “hey, we’re not THAT bad at this. Look, one of the guys is coming around. Now, if we can just get the rest of the team to do the same.”

I’m literally to the point where I believe the team has to be no-hit while surrendering double-digit runs for two consecutive weeks before they (the FO) says “wow, something needs to change.”

By: G-Man

G-Man — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:35:53 +0000

24, and everyone else: It violates the labor agreement to bench, release or otherwise manage a guy to to prevent him from vesting or achieving any contract incentive.

You can say they’ll never porove it, but teams have always been reluctant to play it loose in this area. It nmay be more that they don’t want to have a bad reputation among the players when they compete for free agents.

By: Badbadger

Badbadger — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:13:30 +0000

I don’t think you can assume that he will keep getting ABs at the same rate the whole year. If they don’t want his option to vest, they’ll release him before he gets 450 abs (or whatever the number is).