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1. Rowland Office Supplies Posted: January 18, 2012 at 07:55 AM (#4039159)It is a major league deal right? I'd think it would be weird to have an option on a minor league one.
No, it's with the Astros.
Only for the first year of the deal...
This just sets up the long awaited Carlos Lee for AJ Burnett and $$$ deal.
But, probably no. I figure that this is a roll of the dice at (presumably) a low salary to see if Cust has anything left. Rotographs had an article with this comment which is probably as good an explanation as anything:
as for LF who can't field, Clank is either gonna play 1B or play for some other team. JD martinez is OK out there and he looks like barry lamar in his prime compared to cust
bogusevic and shuck are both leftys, so i guess this means one or both will either be back at AAA, traded of DFAd. knowing THIS team, rotting at AAA is the most likely
sigh
astros like to pick up crappy vets AFTER they are finished then keep em an extra year.
or 2
C. Lee led the NL in defensive WAR last year. The 'Stros can only hope to get such production from The Cust.
I read that as Jason Dubois. Come to think of it, Jason Dubois would probably be an improvement.
sorry to sound like a jeter-ite, but i have watched the guy every day since we signed him and he has never been even league average. he had a beyond horrible 2010, but last year was back up/down to his 08/09 suckage level
he has a limp, inaccurate arm, almost always lets fly balls drop, NEVER chases balls to his right, and every 20 or so plays, somehow manages to catch up to a ball near the LF bullpen that michael bourn would have gotten
and at 1B, he's no albert pujols with the glove. he's better than mo vaughn, but that is not saying much
...which is 10 per year on average. Which is better than nothing, but isn't anything special, no matter what the connotation the writer's trying to give it.
So... not Murray Chass, then?
Considering that the first five years combined for five homers in only 169 plate appearances, it's not really as bad as all that.
In early 2007 - having already experienced the awesomeness of Scutaro v. Rivera at my first game with Amazing GF - said GF surprised me with Warriors playoff tickets during their startling run that year. We got to the Coliseum a little early to meet friends, and were just passing the ballpark when Cust hit a game-winning three-run homer in the bottom of the 9th - his fifth in four games. He was never that good again (after a week with the A's he was on a pace to hit 139 homers in a season) but he was always fun to watch, doofy expressions and all. Here's hoping he tears up the NL, or at least makes Player of the Week somewhere in there.
I have to disagree, bbc. I watched a lot of Carlos Lee's games last year, I thought he was above average defensively in both LF and 1st base. He played the best LF in 2011 I can recall him playing as an Astros LFer. He lost some weight and made a noticeable effort to hustle more. He had the third highest assists from LF in the majors, even though he split time between 1st and LF.
Heh. Hehheh. Hee. Hahahee. Hahahahaheeheeheeheheh(snort)heehaaho.
No, seriously. It hurts when I do that. Stop linking to this kind of thing.
Some of those guys in RF are worth looking at. Bogusevic had 2.4 WAR in 182 PA for the Astros last year, and Bourgeois had 1.2 WAR in 252 PA. In theory, they could form a reasonable platoon in RF. I doubt that Cust sees more than occasional time in RF.
i do agree that for the first time i can ever remember watching carlos lee - including his time with the rangers and crew, he actually TRIED to field well. i gave him that because at first i thought i was imagining it, but he wasn't like - whatever - since he had been.
but it didn't make him GOOD. he had a lot more assists than usual - not because his arm was better or more accurate, but because he used to not usually bother to even TRY to get anyone out.
i give him an A for effort, but he still was not a good fielding LF - we're just comparing him to his old el perezoso self.
and completely disagree that he was better than average at first.
now we DO agree about bogusevic and bourgeois and i really REALLY hope that cust is not going to be taking up their PT
It's a little more special than that, considering he has had "seasons" of 1, 2, 3, 65, and 73 AB's. His power disappeared last year, but in the 4 previous seasons, he hit 97 of his 105 career HR's. Saying he averages a mere 10 HR/year is more than a bit deceiving.
My favorite Cust moment was a game he had with the Orioles playing against the Yankees, probably 2003, he literally fell down twice, once running the bases (which cost them at least a run and screwed up the inning), and once while trying to play defense...
He'd been hyped as a prospect, especially among stathead types, but man did he look brutal, my thought was that he was a poor man's version of Dave Kingman
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