ryder

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:40:21 -0800

I think the writer of this blog needs to learn the difference between a suicide squeeze and a safety squeeze. The Dodgers were right to let Beltre go. He hit 48 home runs in his final year in LA and only 57 in the two-plus seasons since. He was a one-year wonder.

AsherBaruch

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:00:21 -0800

Whoa, Jimmy. Beltre didn't bolt to Seattle. Beltre wasn't offered a contract by LA after his magnificent year of 2004. You know, the same team that let our starting catcher go at the start of the final stretch of regular season play. The same team that shipped off our cleanup hitter to a inner-division rival AND $10 million in order to get the guy who was supposed to keep your boyfriend down on the farm? The same team who still doesn't have a 3rd baseman worth a damn? Beltre, if he bolted, would have gone to Detroit, where he was offered more money than in Seattle. But he waited to see what LA would offer him, and as LA offered him jack, Detroit went in a different direction. Eventually, Beltre went to Seattle where, right now, after 5-5 yesterday, is batting .274, has 12 homers, and 36 RBI. Not too shabby, especially seeing how the 6 3rd basemen we've had since 2004 have done. Or do you miss Jose Valentin missing a ball in chalk?

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ryder

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