Where every other character became a parody of him or herself, Chandler actually became a character with depth where he had not been one before. He was, in essence, the only redeeming factor of the last 3-5 years of that show.

Also contrary to that joke, I will not buy any of the seasons of Friends, as though I find it mildly amusing, I don't make a habit of buying hundreds of hours of being occassionally entertained.

Also, the series finale was teh uberlame. Yeah, I said it.

Besides, everyone knows I'm just coasting off my earlier success.  I haven't made any good jokes since early 2006, and even that one was an accident.

I was going to use your example, by comparing Kotchman vs. Dye for 2007, but Kotchman hit .372/.467 and Dye hit .317/.486, so of course Kotchman is better, he has an equivalent SLG and much better OBP.  Giles is a better one to compare so I tried him.

Using the Morong data, Giles would generate just about as many runs as Dye would in the cleanup spot; Dye was about 3% better in run production from the cleanup spot.  Giles, however, would be better in spots 1-3 and 5.  Dye was better 6,7,8.  

Of course, Dye should be better, his OPS was .803 while Giles was .777;  that shows the power of OBP, particularly at the top of the lineup.  However, it also shows the power of SLG in the bottom of the lineup, which is where I expect Ortmeier to bat, Lewis too, if you played him at 1B instead.  We need more power in the bottom of the lineup to drive in the guys who get on base at the top.

I would be OK with Schierholtz playing 1B, particularly since he was a 3B previously, maybe the Giants could platoon him with Ortmeier at 1B so as to get them both ABs, while opening up ABs in the OF for Lewis.  Lewis at 1B, I'm not sure what aptitude he would have there, but I'd be willing to give him a shot there in a platoon with Ortmeier also.

I mean, I've seen Ortmeier's minor league stats, so I know it's an uphill climb and I'm not sold on him, but the main thing is that I just want to give him a chance to show whether 2007 was a fluke or not, why not reward good play?  Platooning him with someone would do that for me.

Plus, as Grant had noted in a post previously, Matt Holliday didn't show much of anything in the minors, it was certainly as good (i.e. bad) as Ortmeier's, so his 103 OPS+ first season (albeit with 400+ ABs so more substantial), much like Ortmeier's 107 OPS+ in 2007, wouldn't have convinced you to play him in the majors then and you would have put him back in the minors the next season, it seems from your logic.

I'm not saying Ortmeier will be a big success, and I'm willing to split 1B between him and Schierholtz, if you want to put Nate through another defensive change, but at what point do you say he has shown enough in the majors, even if he didn't have the greatest of minor league stats?

I've never said Roberts would be better than he is today, that's not the question I was tackling, the question is if you had to chose between Roberts and Winn, who would you pick and why?  

Obviously, Winn won't be better tomorrow either, heck, I'll throw out Barry Bonds out there too, I'm sure he won't be better tomorrow either, and there are those here who still want him back.  Vizquel, Molina, Durham, any pro above 30 won't be better in the future than what he is today.  May I assume that your stance is that we dump everyone above 30 and just go with young players?  That's what you seem to be implying.

Both Bill James and Chone's projections for Davis and Lewis have them in the low .340 OBP range, so I don't think they'll be matching Roberts approximately .360 OBP that he's done the past 2.5 seasons.

True, he don't hit lefties, neither does Lewis hit lefties and neither does Davis hit righties.

Yes, Roberts is injury prone, that's good for our prospects to get extended time to start when he's out.

That's not true about Robert's fielding in LF, he was highly ranked for fielding in LF in the stats I saw for him when he was playing LF for the Padres.  CF, yet, he doesn't field well there, but Rowand's our new CF now.

So I don't agree that a Lewis/Davis platoon wins on all counts, mainly because I'm not even sure what your strategy is.  If you are just looking to the future, then yes, obviously that's true as far as future development goes.  It's also not realistic because the Giants are not going to do anything like that if they don't trade anyone.  And if Winn is traded, meaning the Giants will start Roberts and Winn, no, a Lewis/Davis platoon does not win because I would much prefer to see Schierholtz get the nod to start.

Nate has earned a chance to start in the majors due to his minor league stats. I see placing Lewis, Davis, and Ortmeier more of a matter of giving them playing time and seeing what happens, none of them has done anything in the minors to earn starting in the majors, they are only up because we have space on the major league roster and no obvious candidate.  Ortmeier has done more with his time in the majors so I prefer to give him the nod.