Monday, June 9, 2008

Shuffle Time, part 2

It's finally happened. Asdrubal Cabrera's day has finally come. He has officially been demoted to AAA for some find tuning. And believe me, he needs a lot of tuning. Cabrera's glove is above adequate, but his offense has been downright awful. He's batting a paltry .184 with 1 HR and 14 RBI in 158 At bats. He's also struck out 40 times with a .282 OBP. Last year, in 159 at bats, he had 3 HR, 22 RBI, .283 average, 29 K's. Either every pitcher in baseball figured him out or he just isn't the same guy as last year. He is only 22, time at Buffalo may be nice. People had to have known this was coming after he has been splitting so much time with Jamey Carroll, who hasn't exactly been setting the world on fire either. To counteract sending Cabrera down, they recalled Josh Barfield, who of course was supposed to answer all of our second base prayers last season. He wasn't that bad last year, he just wasn't the player that they had expected him to be. I think the reason that it has taken this so long to happen is the fact that Barfield hasn't exactly been playing well this season in Buffalo and they kept hoping that Cabrera could return to old form. Something like this had to happen, and we'll see if it works. Here's a heads up call to David Dellucci and Andy Marte, you two could be next.

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