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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Burroughs DFA'ed

The Devil Rays have designated Sean Burroughs for assignment.

It would seem that he'll soon be available for the taking. I doubt the organization shares this sentiment, but I'd like to see the Padres re-acquire him, if only to send him to AAA and wait for him to hit.

He's still just 25, is an above-average defender at third base, and has hit .280 with a .340 OBA through 440 major league games. Considering he is still the age of many major league rookies, I wouldn't be surprised if he rebounded to have a solid career as a regular. It is fairly rare for a player to play in that many games before age 25 and not become a good player. And he's far better than Vinny Castilla.

6 Comments:

Blogger Richard B. Wade said...

I agree 100%. Bring 'im back!

10:31 AM, June 23, 2006  
Blogger Lance Richardson said...

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but there can be little doubt that he's a better, cheaper player than Castilla.

1:06 PM, June 23, 2006  
Blogger Richard B. Wade said...

I meant it.

1:59 PM, June 23, 2006  
Blogger Lance Richardson said...

Burroughs would at least be a solid bet to post an OBA above .300, jessemundo. Same thing can't be said for Castilla.

Considering Vinny's hitting for ZERO power, as well, and that Burroughs is a better baner and at least as good a defender, I don't see how he could be worse than Castilla.

Plus, at age 25, there a good chance Burruoghs gets better, and becomes a long-term solution at the position. I think we all realize that there's absolutely no chance Vinny improves, and even if he did, he wouldn't be anything more than a stopgap, and a shitty one at that.

9:26 PM, June 23, 2006  
Blogger Howard Lynch said...

I'll be sure to tell Sandy, on Friday at the BP Pizza Feed, the we (the Friar Faithful :-) ) would like to give Sean one more shot!

The downside of such a move is that it'd put Justin Leone out of a job, as I'm sure that the Padres' brass would not replace Vinny with Burroughs straight away.

Unless we'd let Sean try to rebound down in Mobile?

This is good, out-of-the-box thinking!

1:30 PM, June 27, 2006  
Blogger Lance Richardson said...

Howard, I regret that I will be unable to attend Fri night.

Find out which players are nailing Boch's wife this year for me, would ya?

7:34 PM, June 27, 2006  

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