Nelson Cruz Community Projections Discussion Thread

I know minorities seem scary (and dirty!), what with their baggy clothing and their love of that nonsensical rap music (Biggie Smalls! How the fuckedy fuck-fuck can a person be both big and small, you stupid dark-skins?)

My guess is this stems from a) the idea that he’s a “bad route runner” and that because of this he must be a dumb-dumb McGillicutty, and b) he strikes out a lot, and apparent perception that player’s who strike out a lot are somehow dumb. It’s amazing how low contact rates seem to always be met with an assumption of stupidity on the offending player’s part. I don’t understand it. I really don’t.

And even if we grant his stupidity (which, again, I don’t), how does this preclude him from improvement? Stupid players improve all the time. If you can show me a correlation between a player’s braininess and his capacity for improvement I’d love to see it.

The age thing I’ll grant, but I think this will be at least somewhat cancelled out by the fact that since the Cowardly Cattleman has been muzzled this year Cruz will no longer have to constantly look over his shoulder for fear that he’ll be benched in favor of the Murphsquito just because the Coward likes it when he gets to see white players play baseball or whatever.

Additionally, shouldn’t we also take into account that this is his last year of pre-arb team control? He needs to perform if he wants to make serious money next year in his first year of arb elgibilty.

After all, those dirty dumb-dumb foriegners will do anything to get their grubby little immigrant hands on our soft green American money.

I mean, you have seen Scarface, right?