Haven’t we learned our lesson about long contracts for tiny players from the contract we gave pedrioa?
Haven’t we learned our lesson about long contracts for tiny players from the contract we gave pedrioa?
Haven't we learned the lesson about how doing one thing that does not work out does not mean never try it again.
Which is why sandavol smiles widely when he think about boston’s Baseball operations department!Originally Posted by moonslav59
...and JD, and Price, and Lackey, and 2 rings Manny...
And how many of them are under six foot tall?
Have we learned the meaning of the word “relevance”?
Because Betts is not 6 feet tall, he's doomed to decline quicker than big hefty players?
I thought the opposite.
Big, small, whatever; I don't like giving contracts when someone is 30 or less of age that takes them past age 35.
Logical Larry. Sometimes I think he's just trolling us.
Nobody does, ken. Not even the owners and the GM's, I bet. So what do you do, just let Mookie play his prime years somewhere else?
Willy Mays was 5'10" and 170 pounds. He lasted 22 years. Betts might well be of a similar ilk.
Rickey Henderson wasn’t very big either. But he lasted a long time...
Mays and Henderson are certainly much more apt comparisons to Mookie than Pedroia.
I have no evidence to back this opinion up, but my guess is smaller players last longer than big bulky ones.
The only argument I see as being valid on Betts and longevity is the way he plays the game all out. That does increase the odds of multiple injuries or one big one, but I think Fenway's RF may be one of the safest places to play, since you are so far away from any walls and other players or infield collisions.
The RF bullpen wall is potentially lethal, but Mookie knows how to navigate it by now.
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