Friday, January 30, 2004

Going way back to the Shingo Takatsu post, I think he's gonna flop. I finally found a website that has Japanes stats, and his aren't very good.
And from Yahoo: throws 84 to 86 mph and averaged only 5.8 strikeouts per nine innings against Japanese hitters the past two seasons.
Plus, he only was willing to sign with a team that promised him the closer job, which is going to lead to problems once he fails at it.

And here are some stats from last year (Avg/OBP/Slg):
petagine .323 .457 .683
alex cabrera .324 .418 .705
tuffy rhodes .276 .391 .608
nakamura .236 .357 .459

Guess we got lucky on Nakamura. I'm still convinced Alex Cabrera should be our RF. Admittedly, I have no idea about his defensive ability in RF, but he did play 11 games there for the DBacks.

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