Tuesday, November 11, 2003
FURTHER HAIR-BRAINED SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
This is aided by Jeremy, who suggested that an outfield of Jenkins/Ichiro/Guerrero would make everyone forget about the "best defensive outfield ever."
Ichiro is a freakin awesome defensive outfielder. Barely any errors, and has that arm that quite a few people don't take the extra base against.
Geoff Jenkins, as I said in a post earlier today, had ZERO errors in 124 games last year along with 11 outfield assists in 124 games. In addition, Jenkins has had four errors in the past three seasons combined. He also recorded 14 assists in 1999 and 12 assists in 2000. I'd have to say this guy probably has one hell of an arm.
Vlad Guerrero. He's good for about 10 errors a year. But I and many Mariners fans will look that over when he pops well around 35-40 (maybe more) bombs and drives in over 100 runs. And they'll even look it over defensively when they realize that over the past five years, Guerrero has averaged 13 outfield assists each year.
Mariners fans, I present to you my 2004 outfield of Geoff Jenkins, Ichiro, and Vlad Guerrero. An outfield that's great defensively, an outfield that absolutely no one will take the extra base against, and an outfield that can RAKE.
Of course, the drawbacks are that Jenkins is due $8.25M in the final year of his deal (and is a tad bit injury-prone) and Vlad will get well over $13-15M or something. But hey, let Garcia walk and cut some of the fat on this team, and damn, that's an outfield from hell.
Ichiro is a freakin awesome defensive outfielder. Barely any errors, and has that arm that quite a few people don't take the extra base against.
Geoff Jenkins, as I said in a post earlier today, had ZERO errors in 124 games last year along with 11 outfield assists in 124 games. In addition, Jenkins has had four errors in the past three seasons combined. He also recorded 14 assists in 1999 and 12 assists in 2000. I'd have to say this guy probably has one hell of an arm.
Vlad Guerrero. He's good for about 10 errors a year. But I and many Mariners fans will look that over when he pops well around 35-40 (maybe more) bombs and drives in over 100 runs. And they'll even look it over defensively when they realize that over the past five years, Guerrero has averaged 13 outfield assists each year.
Mariners fans, I present to you my 2004 outfield of Geoff Jenkins, Ichiro, and Vlad Guerrero. An outfield that's great defensively, an outfield that absolutely no one will take the extra base against, and an outfield that can RAKE.
Of course, the drawbacks are that Jenkins is due $8.25M in the final year of his deal (and is a tad bit injury-prone) and Vlad will get well over $13-15M or something. But hey, let Garcia walk and cut some of the fat on this team, and damn, that's an outfield from hell.
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