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Just because the Diamondbacks don't think Gerardo Parra is good enough to play every day doesn't mean that nobody else does. Think. That.
Feb 25, 2012 - When the Arizona Diamondbacks signed DH Jason Kubel this winter, it seemed like a really good move except for the Diamondbacks rarely getting to use a DH in their games, which means that Kubel will routinely be playing left field for the Diamondbacks while ex-left fielder Gerardo Parra routinely watches Kubel not making defensive plays from the bench.
Hey, it takes all kinds. But it seems that at least one other team thinks more of Parra than the Diamondbacks. MLB.com's Bill Ladson:
The Nationals are still looking for help in the outfield and they have expressed interest in D-backs outfielder Gerardo Parra, according to a baseball source.
--snip--
The left-handed-hitting Parra can play all three outfield positions. If he were to join the Nationals, he could be the team's center fielder, which is his worst defensive position.
Well, sure. Center field is a lot of guys' worst defensive position. But Parra is a) fast, and b) his numbers in the corner outfield spots are excellent. He's got only 363 innings in center field, and my guess is that his sub-par numbers there are largely a statistical fluke. If I needed a center fielder, I would be perfectly comfortable giving Parra an extended try-out. Though if Bryce Harper makes the Nationals' Opening Day roster, they won't need a center fielder because presumably Jayson Werth's going to slide there, with Harper in right and Michael Morse in left. Unless they dump Adam LaRoche and move Mike Morse from left field to first base and Werth from right to left which would open up center for Parra which would probably make the Nationals about as good as they can be but now we're just piling fantasies atop wishes and we know what that leads to.
Chaos.
Or, sometimes, a division title. Maybe.
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The article in question suggested John Lannan perhaps going the other way
Which makes perfect sense, because Arizona are looking for a pitcher to shore up the #8 spot in their rotation.
Oh, wait…
"There's one rule by which I generally run my life:
What would Mothra do?"
by Jim McLennan on Feb 25, 2012 10:34 PM EST reply actions
Hahahahahahaha!
And would they let him hit eighth, too?
"There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League."
—George Vecsey
by extavernmouse on Feb 25, 2012 11:36 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe
that’s the plan. Have a 162 pitcher rotation!
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." - Sir Winston Churchill
#SuperAL
by imstillhungry95 on Feb 25, 2012 11:59 PM EST up reply actions
Well, they are four deep in left field now anyway
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by NASCARbernet on Feb 26, 2012 12:23 AM EST up reply actions
It's funny, because Lannan routinely puts up 180-200 IP and a sub-4.00 ERA
But he’s getting crowded out of the Nationals’ rotation by four power arms and two pitchers with no minor league options. He may end up as the only $5 million pitcher in the International League.
by d_c_guy on Feb 26, 2012 1:01 AM EST up reply actions
He probably will be traded, I agree
But I sincerely doubt it’ll be to the D-backs, unless Kevin Towers’ fiendish plan to dominate the NL West by acquiring every single starting pitcher in baseball…
"There's one rule by which I generally run my life:
What would Mothra do?"
by Jim McLennan on Feb 26, 2012 1:41 AM EST up reply actions
No. Just no.
Never ever ever in a million years. I’ll give ’em Kubel though if they want him.
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." - Sir Winston Churchill
#SuperAL
by imstillhungry95 on Feb 25, 2012 11:59 PM EST reply actions
Also
we signed Kubel, not traded for him
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." - Sir Winston Churchill
#SuperAL
by imstillhungry95 on Feb 26, 2012 12:00 AM EST up reply actions
Never ever ever in a million years trade a player on your bench?
You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry!
by Bsullivan on Feb 28, 2012 8:59 AM EST up reply actions
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