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October 17, 2005
Does Phil Garner read Clear Thinkers?
This NY Times article from over the weekend contains the following blurb from Stros manager, Phil Garner:
Phil Garner praised the Astros' owner, Drayton McLane, for his willingness to re-sign Carlos Beltran after his scintillating 2004 postseason, but he said he thought the team was better off this season without him. The rookie Willy Taveras has emerged as a fine defensive center fielder and has performed better at the plate than expected."I didn't necessarily think it was a big loss," Garner said before Saturday's game. "One of my things that I feel is, if you put so much of your capital in any one player, it's going to hurt you, in my opinion. So I think it might have been a little bit of a blessing."
Did Phil read that here first?
By the way, that Taveras has performed well defensively and has hit better than expected is true, although that latter point is a bit frightening, given how bad Taveras' hitting has been.
Posted by Tom at October 17, 2005 07:18 AM
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