but Hessman could easily, actually be better than Davis. Poor Ike has an OBP of 294 over his last 286 PAs (ouch!) and an OPS that’s rather worse than Daniel Murphy’s the season we all figured out Murphy was never going to be a full time 1Bman.

Desperate times, desperate measures—I’d give Thole 80% of the starts at C, and see if Hessman could put up an OPS of 850 at 1B. I’d start giving Bay plenty of days off in favor of Carter, too, just for luck. What else… is Havens healthy enough to stand at 2B and in the batter’s box w/o falling down? Get him up. And Gee: let’s see if he can go through the league once or twice with an ERA around 3.00 before the league catches up with him.

“From yaw lips ta God’s eahs”

and Davis and Bay haven’t. Wright hasn’t been getting days off either, which starts to make sense when your options at 3b are Blanco and Cora.

we would still have 3 catchers on the roster. With super utlity Cora backing up 1st, 2nd, 3rd, SS.

he was the starting catcher. I understand what you are saying, but it isn’t that Rod Barajas is being scapegoated. It’s Rod Bawilsonvaldezmathewsjrjacobscatalanottocoranieve…not one bit player, but the whole smorgasbord of failure that has been the supporting cast to the all-too-human holy trio.

And besides, people are mostly celebrating Hessman’s call-up.

He’s just the biggest procrastinator. He waits too damn long to eventually cut GMJ, Jacobs, Nieve. Too long to remove Ollie and Maine from the rotation. He needs an injury to stop the 3 catcher nonsense and promote Hessman/Evans. Mejia being up was stupid to begin with, but he needed to see him fail for 2 months to the point that even Jerry knew the kid was over his head.

that stretching routine.