Re: *** Official St Louis Cardinals to the 2006 World Series Thread **
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john rodriguez is a career minor leaguer who basically plays only against righties, often in late innings of blowout games where the other team is using its worst pitchers
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This is simply not true. Earlier in the season he was playing nearly every day. Lately Taguchi and Duncan have been getting the playing time. The numbers he was putting up playing every day are better than the numbers he is currently putting up while playing sporadically. I'm not saying he's better than Edmonds, but to say he is a bad player is completely ridiculous.
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with a more realistic .270 average (his projection for this year was .265), his OPS is now .750, and he is no longer an offensive contributor.
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What does this have to do with anything. I don't really care what he was projected to do, what he is actually doing is much more imporatant.
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one of these guys is likely to be a major offensive asset the rest of the way, and the other is not
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This is true, but it has nothing to do with Rodriguez and everything to do with LaRussa.
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