Cuts like a knife…
Yes, I’m referencing an old Bryan Adams song. The recent cuts announced by the Rockies yesterday of seven players to minor league camp was somewhat of what was expected to a point, but then again maybe not so much.
Matt Murton and Carlos Gonzalez who will both end up in the Springs, I’m 50-50 on this. I know Fowler has been hot as of late in spring training at the plate and in the outfield but I believe Triple A is where he needs to start the season out of the gate. I say that because though Fowler is speedy and can cover alot of ground in center, but he has yet to log any mileage in the cavernous center field of Coors. Gonzalez and Spilly are your best bets to man center field. Maybe the idea at first will be to use Fowler in certain situations during the game and then have him sub in center field. Podsednik, though I am somewhat of a fan, should probably be waived. As for Murton, I would like to him see take over or at least platoon out in left field with Seth Smith. One of the problems with the Rockies is they like to create a logjam players at certain positions and they do nothing to either move the player in a trade or allow a player to be full time at set position. So this will mean Hurdle will again have a different lineup everyday almost in trying to be the nice guy or the players manager instead of having a set lineup and putting the best team on the field each night. I’m not saying you dont give players a break at times but without any consistency this team will have a team batting average and team fielding percentage both lower than they should be. I have to believe that Hurdle overthinks the game alot of the time and things backfire on him more times than not.
As for the “dragonslayer” Josh Fogg, is anyone really surprised by this? I hope not. Maybe he will get it together in triple A and we’ll see him at some point because we all know the pitching staff we’re going into the season with will look different week by week.
Edwin Bellorin didnt have a chance in hell of making the club with Iannetta and Torrealba already ahead of him and then Sal Fasano (who looks like he walked off the set of the recently cancelled show ‘Life on Mars’ on abc or That 70’s Show) comes in and has a good spring to boot.
Other cuts were Greg Smith, Randy Flores, and Paul Phillips.
Rockies are currently leading the White Sox 2-0 in the 5th inning.
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