It doesn't come that often, I suppose, but when he lays into the right pitch, Pedro's magnificent shots are only surpassed in recent Giants right-handed history by Matt,* the Cat*, and Ellis Burks.

(Williams and Gallaraga.)

Your stats on home run ratio are the same as the ones I quoted above, so we have no argument about them. I do like the fact you take into the fact AT&T effects on number of home runs. Most don't when evaluating Pedro's numbers.

What I'd ask is how many of the third baseman who have better home runs to ABs ratios are available as free agents? How many are likely candidates for trades? If they also have good gloves, I'm all for getting them over signing Feliz, but that looks like it isn't going to happen.

Really what I'm saying is, if one is going to consider signing another player for the position other than Pedro, his strengths as well as his much discussed weaknesses need to be considered instead of knee jerk bad mouthing of a player. A fair judgment of his strengths include both his home runs (the same number as Chavez and Rolen, and a better ratio than Lowell, Tracy, Zimmerman, and Blalock) and his excellent glove.