It was mentioned on the FoxSportsNet broadcast last night that Piazza wants to reach the .300 mark in batting for his season. Sounds nice but the reasoning in selfish once again. Aside from Piazza not wanting to move from behind the plate because he wants to be remembered as the greatest hitting catcher of all time --and if he moves now he is worried that people would remember him as a 1b and not a catcher--now he wants to keep alive his streak of consecutive years hitting over .300. Playing yesterday in the park where a player (Gwynn) hit over .300 for I think it was 18 consecutive years, Piazza wants to keep his personal streak alive which would reach I believe nine years.
Also they finally made mention of something that I have been complaining about for over a year now and that is the hitting of Rey Ordonez. They showed a comparison of Rey's numbers through x amount of games and compared them to the legendary Wizard of Oz Ozzie Smith himself. Ordonez' numbers --average, stikeouts, walks -- were all better than Ozzie's for the same amount of games. Rey has 28 rbi batting eighth compared to Ventura who has 45 batting 3-4-5 all year. And remember after Smith was traded from SD to St. Louis he obviuosly became a better hitter but also moved up in the lineup -- to second in the order. Personally that's where I would have liked to see Rey earlier this year but they don't show any support to him. If he is 2 for 3 in a tight game, Bobby V will pinch hit for him in the 8th or 9th. Why? Is it that impossible for Rey to have a 3 hit game. Would it kill Bobby V to show some support to a guy who might need a little coddling offensively because God knows he'll make up for it on 'D'.
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.
Also they finally made mention of something that I have been complaining about for over a year now and that is the hitting of Rey Ordonez. They showed a comparison of Rey's numbers through x amount of games and compared them to the legendary Wizard of Oz Ozzie Smith himself. Ordonez' numbers --average, stikeouts, walks -- were all better than Ozzie's for the same amount of games. Rey has 28 rbi batting eighth compared to Ventura who has 45 batting 3-4-5 all year. And remember after Smith was traded from SD to St. Louis he obviuosly became a better hitter but also moved up in the lineup -- to second in the order. Personally that's where I would have liked to see Rey earlier this year but they don't show any support to him. If he is 2 for 3 in a tight game, Bobby V will pinch hit for him in the 8th or 9th. Why? Is it that impossible for Rey to have a 3 hit game. Would it kill Bobby V to show some support to a guy who might need a little coddling offensively because God knows he'll make up for it on 'D'.
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.
