LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Mebbe Jerry will stop bunting. I think that's connected to the whole RISP-y thing. That and the injuries. That, the injuries and Rod Barajas, you mean. He hasn't walked once this year and gotten to ball 3 only 3 times. He is outmaking at 81%. Y'know how a few of us were arguing pretty mightily against Molina, because he uppercuts the hell out of everything, and outmakes (I like this word) so frequently that it actually mitigates anything positive he might do around the batter's quadrangular area? And how he's shit on the basepaths, and maybe not nearly as good defensively as his rep? And how he's definitely not worth a 6-7 million dollar deal, much less a 2-year/12-million one? Onfield, Barajas is the discount version of the exact. same. guy. (A lower contact rate, which isn't so good. A few more flyballs, though, so fewer DPs. That's nice.) ("Puncher's power" is pretty much his only offensive plus. And G-d help me, but I like the Tony Gonzalez bit when he blocks the plate. ) I think it's because of the discount that I like him. If you got a Big Mac for 25 cents, it'd still be a fatty slimy mess, but you'd feel better about scarfing it down, wouldn't you?