Gathright

[bmmac27]

Any potential here?

[Pogotheostrich]

potential for SB but that is about it.

[d18Mike]

Yeah -- he can steal all right, but batting 9th won't help and will crush any microscopic value he has any other category.

Here's nice chart on projected "Speed Surgers" through the remainder of 2006 by Baseball HQ.

Player Tm AB SB SBA SX SBO pSB pSBO pSX
============ === === == === === === === ==== ===
Freel,R CIN 216 17 21 119 30% 18 33% 128
Gathright,J KC 166 12 15 127 30% 16 38% 149
Furcal,R LA 311 17 24 124 24% 15 25% 129
Beltran,C NYM 244 12 15 93 19% 14 21% 115
Burke,C HOU 147 6 6 118 15% 11 25% 130
Hermida,J FLA 125 2 2 95 5% 10 13% 109
Bay,J PIT 280 6 8 84 8% 9 12% 106
Hunter,T MIN 279 6 10 70 11% 9 16% 84
Rodriguez,A NYY 275 8 11 99 11% 9 12% 102
Giles,M ATL 289 7 10 103 12% 7 13% 108
Granderson,C DET 293 5 9 113 9% 7 15% 129
Guerrero,V LAA 296 5 5 66 7% 7 10% 94
Iguchi,T CHW 273 5 8 90 10% 7 13% 112
Mauer,J MIN 257 7 8 88 7% 7 8% 97
Rowand,A PHI 227 4 8 96 16% 7 17% 109
Everett,A HOU 244 2 4 76 7% 6 13% 89
Holliday,M COL 294 4 5 101 7% 6 11% 108
Luna,H STL 170 3 6 77 12% 6 20% 122
Martin,R LA 156 3 4 96 8% 6 19% 106
Winn,R SF 294 3 9 91 11% 6 15% 101
Berroa,A KC 257 3 4 61 8% 5 11% 91
Eckstein,D STL 300 5 8 77 8% 5 9% 90
Giles,B SD 282 5 7 57 6% 5 7% 77
Kubel,J MIN 110 2 2 58 7% 5 21% 125
Mackowiak,R CHW 143 0 1 31 2% 5 10% 91
Rolen,S STL 237 4 8 66 11% 5 12% 83