people will be bashing this thread

but...

1) Laird... to the bench. Hes boring, this is supposed to be a development year, salty is ready and the offense could use the extra (potential) punch.
1a) Melhuse... to retirement. because hes got nothing left offensively or defensively.
2) Jennings... to the DL and then on a tour of the minors in an as long as possible rehab because he clearly doesnt have it right now.
3) Cat... to the bench or if we could find a trade partner. Not good enough to warrant the at bats anymore in this type of season. He can pinch hit and occasionally DH, but much less of him.
4) Broussard... closer to the bench. Let either botts or shelton platoon full time 50/50 with him. They both may suck, in fact probably do, but id rather find out for sure than watch broussard the rest of the season.
5) Mark Connor... because I dont like him.

Byrd needs to stick around because bradley is bradley and we dont have any compelling young guys for the spot. Id like to see more of bradley actually in the field though, which would take byrd at bats. I still like him as a 4th OF, but hes being pushed into more ABs by bradley's injury status.

For MY, its looking like maybe we should have just stayed with the previous contract, but im still not anxious to see him go or anything. Certainly not before andrus is ready, which he isnt close to yet. I think when all is said and done this year his ops is higher than last year at least.

But I went with Cat (or as I call him, Crapalanotto)

SLC’s summariztion of him was dead on: he’s worthless, and taking up a precious roster spot. Getting rid of him would be addition by subtraction.

I voted Jennings. He obviously isnt 100 percent, at least he isnt pitching like it. Cat, Byrd, and B.B. would make a lame bench but at least a semi reliable one(at one point in time). The only beef I got is with the Lardster. Granted, everyone wants to rush the Saltster up to the biggies but com’on, lets take advantage of Lard as best we can, get Salts a couple more months in AAA, then call him up to play everyday. Trade Laird, DF’A him for all I care. Keep him as a backup if you want. But Salty is part of the future, imo, or else we wouldn’t have made the trade to acquire him.

At this point Id rather see Lard instead of Salty making stupid rookie mistakes like he was bound to make this year. I want to see a better transtion for him so that his stay here is permanent and long.

Everyone take a inhale deeply. Let it out. We knew this thing was going to be awful last July. It is only going to get worse. It is going to be an ugly summer.

1)BB – They thought that he was the best available short-term option at 1B. It doesn’t look like he is. However, as soon as Wash quits giving him AB’s against LHP, he’ll look a lot better. (Wash is going to quit giving him AB’s against LHP, right?) There are at least 4 guys in the organization that I would rather see getting at bats than him, but that time will come.

2) Byrd can be a very valuable member of this team going forward. Just not as an everyday player and not hitting in the middle of the lineup.

3)Cat. TODAY, I’m going to say be a little patient. He is swinging a little better and you have to think over the course of the season he will be a productive player. He is a guy that could be moved at the deadline if he is swinging the bat well, so he should be given every opportunity to do so.

4) Without having many other options at this point (Feldman really needs more time, Hurley’s not ready, Murray is a non-factor), you keep running Jennings out there if he’s not hurt. Especially since you are getting such good starting pitching around him right now. Remember, starts like his are all we got from everyone for about a month last year. He may right the ship and be valuable trade bait or warrant an extension. Or you release him in June if he’s still giving you what he is giving you now.

5) This has to be bitterness talking. Laird has been fine offensively and has been thrown very well. Salty is building confidence in AAA and hopefully getting better behind the plate. This is working fine right now.

Although Byrd probably deserves the axe the most in my opinion – I voted Broussard simply because I had much higher expectations of him. I know we’ve been spoiled by having Teixeira around, but I didn’t think Benny-Boy would be such a step down defensively as he is. Cat gets an honorable mention – what happened to that guy the last 2 years?

No question

must go.

A singles hitting 4th outfielder with absolutely no defensive value. I’d rather have Boggs as the fourth outfielder. If Cat plays as anything but a DH it’s a travesty.

Jarrod Saltalamachia AAA
AVG OBP SLG OPS R HR RBI
.364 .447 .667 1.114 7 2 9

zero errors

Let’s get part of our future in the bigs. it sure will make me want to watch this pathetic team a little more. It is painful this year, but we knew that – much like every year.

The guys a no defense playing stiff. He’s 34 and it doesn’t seem like we have the ability to contend this year so why are we running out a guy that hit .260/.337/.444 last year who won’t be around when we are ready to contend. We are really never going to know what Jason Botts can do as a full time player if all we do is pinch hit him. He should replace Crappalanato as the DH as soon as possible.

Not to mention I’m still bitter about giving up the 16th pick for him.

JD

LSBers would have perfered I added Lewin and JD to the poll. Oh well.

who wants to be the one to tell Cat he was voted of the island?

Close vote though. JJ, BB, and OMFT are not far behind.