Minor League Roundup

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<!--quoteo(post=33179:date=Apr 25 2009, 09:26 PM:name=ruby23)-->QUOTE (ruby23 @ Apr 25 2009, 09:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Jake Fox will be 27 by the end of the year.

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->The point remains: the only thing overblown is your pithy assurances that Hoffpaiur and Fox, platooning to maximize their already CLEARLY ML-calibre hitting ability couldn't easily equal Derrek Lee's obviously, rapidly declining offensive skills.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Says the guy who advocated the Dubois/Hollandsworth platoon.

<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->Not every position on a WS winning team is populated by a $10 million dollar All-Star vet.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

And none of them should be covered by 2 career minor leaguers in a platoon.
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Seems a bit unfair to call Fox a "career" minor leaguer, no? And Hoffpauir would have been a Major Leaguer a couple years ago if not for Derrek Lee never missing any time.

I think you'll find I'm much less out on a limb with this platoon idea than the Hollandbois (although many agreed with me then that it would be an ACCEPTABLE platoon because no one else was available).

You're missing (or blatantly ignoring) the main point: Derrek Lee SUCKS now.