01-02-2009, 11:37 PM
<!--quoteo(post=8465:date=Jan 2 2009, 09:25 PM:name=rok)-->QUOTE (rok @ Jan 2 2009, 09:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=8444:date=Jan 2 2009, 08:43 PM:name=savant)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (savant @ Jan 2 2009, 08:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Miles has always been much better from the right side, so I really expect a straight platoon. And, if we do end up needing to get another secondbaseman Hendry has always shown an uncanny ability to accumulate people who play second so I'm really not worried.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Which is kind of interesting since Hendry has been harping about the need for more lefty bats, yet Miles is strongest from the right side of the plate.
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But, if he is able to get Fontenot another 200 ab's that DeRosa would have taken he has made the team more lefthanded. He just did it with someone already on the roster. A lot of this goes back to hendry being so honest with players. I remeber an interview with DeRosa last year where he was asked about what it was like to deal with Lou. He told about his first year in either the second or third game he was on the bench to get Theriot a start at second. He went to lou and said I signed here to be the starting secondbaseman and Lou put him in the lineup.
If Lou/Hendry went to DeRosa and said we are going to be giving Fontenot more ab's next year and some of them are going to come from you. DeRosa says I signed here to be the starter and Hendry says okay, we can move you so you can still be a starter. I have a hard time holding that against anyone the Cubs like Fontenot, and Derosa is in his contract year playing for the last contract he will ever get.
Which is kind of interesting since Hendry has been harping about the need for more lefty bats, yet Miles is strongest from the right side of the plate.
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But, if he is able to get Fontenot another 200 ab's that DeRosa would have taken he has made the team more lefthanded. He just did it with someone already on the roster. A lot of this goes back to hendry being so honest with players. I remeber an interview with DeRosa last year where he was asked about what it was like to deal with Lou. He told about his first year in either the second or third game he was on the bench to get Theriot a start at second. He went to lou and said I signed here to be the starting secondbaseman and Lou put him in the lineup.
If Lou/Hendry went to DeRosa and said we are going to be giving Fontenot more ab's next year and some of them are going to come from you. DeRosa says I signed here to be the starter and Hendry says okay, we can move you so you can still be a starter. I have a hard time holding that against anyone the Cubs like Fontenot, and Derosa is in his contract year playing for the last contract he will ever get.
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