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11/10/2005: "Soriano would be a Boone"
Uh oh. From Ken Rosenthal, with a hat tip (do we do these in sports blogs?) to the St. Louis Sports Forum, Bret Boone has met with the Cardinals. Stop me if you've heard this before--he's begun an "extensive off-season conditioning program", through which he hopes to return to his glory days, or his useful days. He's met with the Royals, too, and they're more likely to be desperate enough to hand him a starting job, so I wouldn't worry yet. But this could be trouble.
Now, admittedly, he was a decent starting second baseman as recently as 2004, when he went .251/.317/.423 at Safeco, and that .294/.366/.535 is just the year before that. But in 2005 he was almost Neifi bad, and his defense has slipped considerably. I wouldn't mind him on the Cardinals, but only if he signs a minor league deal after they've acquired a starting second baseman, be it Grudz or...
Well, as per the same Rosenthal article, Alfonso Soriano. Soriano's a risky proposition; it's all dependent on whether both teams realize he's nowhere near as valuable as he was even while he was being overrated in New York. For those of you who are understandably disinterested in following the Texas Rangers, he's put together .280/.324/.484 and .268/.309/.512 years since then, including a nice 30-2 stolen base year in '05. Due to the AgeGate thing that broke when he moved to the Rangers, rather than being a young player on the downswing he's... well, a guy going on 30 on the downswing. Of course, when you're dealing with Ballpark in Arlingt--well, whatever their park is named now... when you're dealing with numbers from over there, it's helpful to check out the home road splits.
Well, they're pretty ugly. At Arlington last year he hit .311/.355/.656. Away from Arlington? .224/.265/.374. While that would scream four years, 30 million to the Cubs, I can't see the Cardinals getting so excited. He posted a .735 OPS away from Texas in 2004, and sometimes playing in an extreme hitters park can ruin a player's road numbers... but ouch. What happened to Alfonso Soriano, Future MVP? And why did they trade A-Rod for this guy?
I'm sure Marquis just loves all this trade talk, but for a going-on-thirty middle infielder with average defense and a potent bat but severe OBP issues, I would just barely cross the Marquis Barrier, and only because Reyes is waiting in the wings. Would the Rangers accept him straight-up for Soriano? Beats me. Would I add anything more than Wainwright, or some cool Busch Stadium memorabilia? No. Sure beats Kevin Mench, though.
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