Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Pinstriped Bible on the case.

Bob Raissman should note that the endless Yankee criticism of the Pinstriped Bible is allowed to exist on Al Yankzeera's website:

"There is no reason that Tony Womack is playing over Bernie Williams. None. The weakened, enervated, aged Williams can outperform this hitter. Womack's current .265/.306/.297 percentages would easily qualify him for one of the two least productive seasons by an outfielder in team history, right there with Bill Robinson in 1967. He'd be worse than Gary Ward in 1987, worse than Rondell White in 2002. If the Yankees don't trust Williams to adjust to spacious left field, he should be restored to center with Hideki Matsui returning to left. In a concomitant move, Russ Johnson would be returned to Columbus and Bubba Crosby would come up to be a religiously-used late inning replacement. An alternative strategy, but something of a long shot, would be for the Yankees to try Kevin Thompson of Double-A Trenton in left field. Thompson is currently hitting .322/.413/.525 in 51 games. Thompson is in the Womack line, but in addition to speed he has power and patience the incumbent lacks. Though unproven, Thompson will turn 26 in September; if the Yankees burn him by rushing him, they're not losing all that much. In any case, the nice thing about baseball is that you can end an experiment at the moment the player appears overmatched. No permanent harm will be done."

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