I'm debating signing an FA midseason to platoon/fill-in off the bench at heavy-fielding positions. Whoever I sign will probably bat 7th or 8th in the NL. The core of my question, I think, goes to whether LHP/RHP splits are more important, or the Contact rating. Both have solid batting-eye, but are slow (though good baserunners.)

#1 Benny Sewell

and

#2 Felipe Valenzuela

i would go with sewell, velenzuela's low contact is gonna kill him

I agree about Sewell, but in over 800 BL at bats Valenzuela has a .734 OPS, so "kill" is probably a bit strong.

Valenzuela has a forearm injury also

I wondered about the injury...looking at the transaction report it looked like it happened last year. I thought maybe since it didn't give a number of injury days, perhaps he had recovered?

Sewell. Wouldn't think twice, unless there's a third choice to consider.

If Valenzuela wasn't too expensive. He wouldn't be a bad option to throw on the DL and see how he recovers from the injury. He can play most positions and has a bat you wouldn't mind coming in as a pinch hitter.

The best formula for a high OPS is a high OBP + a high SLG, in my opinion. Other may differ.

The answer is obvious... 42.

They're both retired, aren't they?

Posted by petec on 1/19/2011 7:15:00 PM (view original):
You can always get to come out of retirement with the right offer

how can you even make an offer?

Very carefully, I think pete was joking because this thread is a year old and the guys have since retired

PeteC knows, if you treat the ladies w/ respect, they're always willing to come out of retirement.