Philadelphia Daily News: Amaro: Feliz ‘a winning player’ (RR)

and as his B-Ref sponsor page calls him…The “Prodigious Out Making Machine.”

Why would the Giants, a team that finished next to last in runs scored in 2007, make so little effort to keep him? Why, in fact, would they offer him less than the $5 million he made last season and why did he end up having to take a pay cut to come to the Phillies?

“I don’t know,” Feliz said softly. “I would love to know. But I don’t know why.”

One ranking baseball official with intimate knowledge of the San Francisco front office, offered this opinion: “He has the ability, the raw tools,” he said. “He has the potential to be a pretty decent player. His raw numbers are pretty good. And he’s a manager’s dream, an outstanding young man who doesn’t complain about anything.

“But then you see him swing at a 1-2 slider in the dirt with two outs and the tying run on third. Or you know that he’s a pretty good third baseman with a superb arm, yet when a big play is needed, he sometimes drops the throw.

“Maybe somebody can get to him. But you look at his on-base percentage [.288] and the other things and he just wasn’t consistent enough.”