On this blog, I often describe someone as the worst hitter in baseball, or the worst PLAYER in baseball.
I was watching Frenchie strike out tonight when I thought, "Man, he is the worst!"
So I looked it up. He's not the worst.
Among qualifying outfielders (71) he is 57th in on base percentage and 52nd in OPS. So, there are almost 20 outfielders that start in baseball that are worse than him. I believe his OBP is down to .290. WOW!
The thing is, when you look at the guys on that list (who are worse than him), they're all either making $20M (Carlos Lee), young and up and coming (Drew Stubbs, Adam Jones), were recently terrific (Carlos Quentin), or play CF. In other words, all those other teams have a REASON for playing these awful outfielders. Why are the Mets playing Frenchie?
I have no idea.
If we didn't have him, would we be trading for Lance Berkman? I guess we'll never know.
On a totally unrelated note....Omar Vizquel (4 hits this season) is batting 9th and playing DH for the White Sox tonight. ????????
You gotta love when a manager makes a lineup so stupid you wouldn't let someone do it in MLB 2K10 on Nintendo, because it would mess with the integrity of the video game.
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