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Me too, Dusty. Me, too.
#2 Penn State
Oops, wrong sport.
#1 Notre Dame
#2 Penn State
I know you aren't talking about football, so what sport are you talking about?
Freel is 32 and has 2000 MLB PAs. Hopper is 29, doesn't have a lot of MLB PAs, but does have 3700 minor-league ones. You don't need to watch these guys to know what they're like as hitters. Freel walks more; neither strikes out much but Hopper does it less. Hopper has zero power -- as in a career MINOR LEAGUE ISO of 47! -- Freel has minimal power (career ISO of 108). If you want to get fancy Dusty, open your eyes, turn on the office computer, find baseball-reference.com and take a look at "pitch data summary." Oops, sorry, you'll have to click on that "internet explorer" icon first. Well, double click. With the mouse. That oblong-y thing next to the keyboard. LEFT CLICK! LEFT CLICK!
I'll grant you, great mysteries like "which one of these is better on the lead end of a double steal and which on the tail end?" will remain unanswered unless you get lucky in retrosheet ... though I'm pretty sure the answer to that is "if you think either one of the guys has any reasonable chance of being thrown out, a double steal is an horrendously bad idea anyway."
Frankly, unless the Reds are carrying 15 position players and have enough room for a pinch-running fly catcher, there's no way Norris Hopper should sniff a major-league roster. OK, unfair, his 260/300/290 line might be better than Jason Kendall.
For a long time the two were competing dynasties in fencing.
Now that is special.
Seriously, if I was the opposing manager I think about bringing in an OF when Hopper bats. Dude hits a lot of grounders and nothing hard.
Former football powers who think they still are.
NYU says hi
ZiPS actually projects him to duplicate his minor-league line (290/330/340) ... and that is significantly better than the line for Mr. Kendall (260/330/310).
And in honesty, 670 OPS from your backup CF probably isn't THAT bad.
But why even debate Freel vs. Hopper when Bruce is easily the best choice.
Where's the "any" key?
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