According to this morning's PG, GM Neal says that newly recalled Neil Walker "will see playing time off the bench and in spot starts." I guess this means that Walker's hot .320+ average in the minors will be allowed to cool off on the major league bench while we still get large doses of the pathetic Aki Iwamura batting lead off and playing second base. I am waiting for GM Neal to next tell us that Aki is ready to turn it around based on hitting a triple last night. (For those of you who didn't see the game last night, Iwamura's triple was a lazy can of corn the center that the center fielder lost in the lights.)
For a humorous and better written view of the current Buccos, I refer you to Gene Collier's column from this morning, which features commentary on Pirate standouts, Iwamura, Charlie Morton, Jeff Clement, and Lastings Milledge:
Hi Bob - Not Pirates related but I wish I was going to SF for Memorial Day. Ubaldo Jimenez vs Tim Lincecum. Good luck with your new guy!
ReplyDeleteThat is a pitching match-up made in heaven! We will be at PNC n Memorial Day, Pirates-Cubs, AND a free Pirates Stars 'n Stripes cap!!
ReplyDeleteHey Grandstander! This is directly related to some of your recent Pirates' comments. File this under "Convoluted Logic". The following is direct from today's USA Today: "Aki Iwamura ... .166 (average) with a .269 OBP, will remain the leadoff hitter." Manager John Russell said; "If he's going to get out of this, you'd like to get him up there as much as you can." (Huh?) Belongs in SI's "They Said It" feature.
ReplyDeleteBigPoppy - John Russell's credibility, what little he had, is slipping away rapidly every time he starts Charlie Morton or pencils in Aki Iwamura and Jeff Clement in the starting line-up. It's unbelievable.
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