Baldelli

[Erboes]

Hootie, I'm just playing the odds here, which I am sure you'll understand. There just aren't too many players with high strikeout and low walk totals who make it for long in the majors. Eventually, pitchers will keep throwing the pitches he can't handle out of the strike zone until he finally adjusts, and looking at his stats for the last couple months last season it looks like that process has already begun. He may adjust, but looking at his swing I don't think it will happen over night. I remember Cory Snyder, a guy for the Indians who had all the talent in the World but for as long as he played he kept swinging at the curveballs down and away in the dirt. It eventually chased him out of baseball.

It's just an opinion.