Soriano...0/16...should I worry?

[wrveres]

Well if this keeps up, I'd say in about two weeks, right before the saason starts, it would be a good time to try and trade for Soriano. Its probably the cheapest you will get him all season

[so0perspam]

Well if this keeps up, I'd say in about two weeks, right before the saason starts, it would be a good time to try and trade for Soriano. Its probably the cheapest you will get him all season

Exactly.

[HOOTIE]

0/16 or 16/16, who cares? It's meaningless for the most part. I don't even follow spring stats. I don't want to cloud my judgement for my drafts.

[Juhlz]

Let me show you what BP's book has to say about Soriano:

[quote="BaseballProspectus2005"]Probably the single most overrated player in baseball. Yes, it's interesting and axciting that he can hit a pitch two feet down and in over the fence. But what the hell is he doing swinging at it in the first place?

sorry, you lost me at "axciting"

I try to avoid paralysis by analysis and projections or not, to me the bottom line is his value as a second basemen and numbers he has put up in the not so distant past make him a solid late first rounder. He is young and plays in a hitters park with a solid cast around him. What's the big debate, I don't get it. It's not like he hits .250

[LBJackal]

Do that trade in a second. Soriano more or less equals Crawford in value, and Giles is far and away better than Buehrle (though I do like him as a pretty good sleeper this year).

[TheYanks04]

Hmmmm.....

18 sbs...77 runs...91 rbis...280 avg

Absolutely first round material over the likes of Schmidt, Abreau, Manny, Helton, Santana, Chavez, Schilling, Sheffield, Bonds and many others.

Heck, why wouldn't you want to pay a 1st round premium for Soriano considering someone like Kent last season posted:

.289 27/107/96 7 SBs


or Giles in only 379 ABs:

.311 8/48 61 runs 17 SBs (1 less Sb than Soriano in only 379 ABs...almost as many runs).


I would definitely bypass Tejada and Manny and Abreu and Helton and Schilling and Schmidt and all those guys for the truely elite 2b that is Soriano. Those numbers in a hitter park are just too much to pass up.

[quietstorm]

Let me show you what BP's book has to say about Soriano:

Probably the single most overrated player in baseball. Yes, it's interesting and axciting that he can hit a pitch two feet down and in over the fence. But what the hell is he doing swinging at it in the first place?

sorry, you lost me at "axciting"

I try to avoid paralysis by analysis and projections or not, to me the bottom line is his value as a second basemen and numbers he has put up in the not so distant past make him a solid late first rounder. He is young and plays in a hitters park with a solid cast around him. What's the big debate, I don't get it. It's not like he hits .250

LOL... sorry... that's what happens when I copy that from the book without looking at the screen.

[quietstorm]

Hmmmm.....

18 sbs...77 runs...91 rbis...280 avg

Absolutely first round material over the likes of Schmidt, Abreau, Manny, Helton, Santana, Chavez, Schilling, Sheffield, Bonds and many others.

Heck, why wouldn't you want to pay a 1st round premium for Soriano considering someone like Kent last season posted:

.289 27/107/96 7 SBs


or Giles in only 379 ABs:

.311 8/48 61 runs 17 SBs (1 less Sb than Soriano in only 379 ABs...almost as many runs).


I would definitely bypass Tejada and Manny and Abreu and Helton and Schilling and Schmidt and all those guys for the truely elite 2b that is Soriano. Those numbers in a hitter park are just too much to pass up.

Soriano's only better than Abreu by about $2-3, on the basis of his higher AB totals. I'm not such a fan of banking on a player being more valuable due to 650 AB instead of 575...

[nuggets]

The last two years an owner drafted Soriano 1st and 2nd overall. Since then I have reffered to him as "Sorryano"

[io]

Soriano isn't lucky.. he's uncanny .... for some reason, his best pitch to hit is about 10 feet outside the strikezone... i know he swings and misses at it alot, but when he gets a hold of one, the ball flies.....

also, he said that he didn't work out at all during the off-season because he was worried about his leg. sounds like he's gonna get off to a slow start , maybe during the season too .... but he'll catch up. if he can stay healthy he should be fine