I mean, the park isn’t going to help any lefty slugger, but check out Fielder’s bombs for the year. It almost seems to me that the fact that he doesn’t hit any in the 60-70 degree range would be to his benefit at the booth.
He’s no Adam Dunn when it comes to hitting for distance, but he is tied with Carlos Delgado for 2nd in baseball with 11 “no doubt” shots.

He’s been trying to lose weight by eating vegetarian, isn’t he? Well, I can’t think of many places in the world that would be worse for vegetarians than Milwaukee, and man places in the world that would be BETTER than San Francisco.

Plus, we can’t get rid of him right before his record breaking season! We can only do that the season after.

Who else would do Wells Fargo ads with Lisa Stevens?

J.T. Snow’s son.

To all the teams who’re just dying to take on his contract?

Listening to the Sabean show, I really got different impressions on what he said. He said they’re looking to Burriss as the starting shortstop, but mostly because it’s hard to find a good shortstop in the trade or FA market. He said it’s easier to fill other positions. As for Randy Winn, he said they would decide in the offseason whether to offer him an extension or not. I would expect them not to offer him one, especially if Nate does anything at all this September. As for CC Sabathia, I certainly didn’t hear him say he was interested. He said if they can get a starter on the FA or trade market that might enable them to trade another starter for a big hitter, but he expected the market on Sabathia to be off the charts. When’s the last time Sabean made a huge trade anyway?? All these machinations we want to see in the offseason are never going to happen. Make a big trade for a bat, sign a big FA pitcher. That requires too much time and effort for our GM!! He’d rather stand pat, make a couple of minor FA signings, and avoid another AJ trade like the plague.

That’s not a chance, though. That’s giving him a _. And that’s not a fill-in-the-blank right there. That’s just a blank. No player can reasonably prove ANYTHING in Spring Training.

If the team made their decision on Ortmeier because of Spring Training, that’s an absolute joke, and asserting that they reasonably could have made their decision based on those at bats is nuts.

No, I’m sure they, more than likely, made their decision based on over 2000 crappy minor league at bats and roughly 200, at the time, far crappier major league at bats. Let’s not fool around with this. Ortmeier NEVER had a chance. He was always regarded as a last resort non-prospect that the team would rather have anything to replace with. They just didn’t say so much because that would be some awesome PR right there.