Sunday Bird Droppings

I’d just wish that’d he’d break his leg, he doesn’t need those 4 RBI’s.

that’s my fantasy team crashing and burning without him.

I really do, since what isn’t there to like about a standout defender in center with good plate discipline.

Except for his overwhelming groundball rate. This season, for example, he has hit 76.1% of balls on the ground. He hit only 6.5% of all balls hit as line drives.

Prospects with those ratios just don’t make the majors. I wish he made better contact. But I just don’t see it happening at this point.

No one is going to trade for him under the present circumstances – why would you, when it appears he is both worthless and soon available for free on waivers?

I don’t think they would want Luke, but I could see them pursuing Miggi, Wiggs, or Ohman. If I were the O’s, I’d put it out there right away that we’d do something for one of their arms from last years draft – Tyler Skaggs, Tyler Kehrer, or Garrett Richards – all of whom are looking promising but not among the top echelon of their prospects. Teams will sense the Angels’ desperation and try to pry Mike Trout loose from them; this gives us a chance to move quickly for someone less valuable and will help the Angels increase their leverage in talks for higher end players.

there’s no way we could land him in a trade with luke. also consider that the luke scott show of smoke and mirrors is due to vanish any day now. maybe with wiggles, but that’s in doubt IMO.
plus, as it’s been said, wood is free in a short amount of time. finally, getting rid of luke, miggi, or wiggy would mean a whole lot more atkins in our future. that is unacceptable.

As you implied above, nobody had a good week anyway.

The problem with spending big bucks on big named players is that big named players aren’t necessarily worth all the money they’ll command, plus you’d have to pay them extra to come to the worst team in baseball that also happens to play in the best division. And good young players are getting locked up more and more these days. The answer is to develop from within, I think, but if our system is broken in how it develops then we’re really in for trouble.

Please don’t use all caps :)