{"id":2017,"date":"2010-01-25T20:45:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T02:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2010-01-25T20:45:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T02:45:54","slug":"the-probable-outcomes-of-passing-on-a-pure-dh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/2017\/the-probable-outcomes-of-passing-on-a-pure-dh","title":{"rendered":"The Probable Outcomes Of Passing On A Pure DH"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sox today, finally, acknowledged<\/a> what we’ve all sort of known all along: Andruw Jones, Omar Vizquel and Mark Kotsay are all just POWDERKEGS, waiting to explOOOOOOOODE all over the American League! Mega-platoon! Wrecking ball city! Your team has one DH, our team has THREE! Battalion of Bash! Army of Awesome! Team of Destiny!<\/p>\n

So with the team poised to REVOLUTIONIZE American League roster-building, what does the future hold? The 35th Street 8-ball says “Outlook not so good.”<\/p>\n

Carlos Quentin, forced to play in the field, gets hurt and missed a minimum of 20 games due specifically to injury.<\/strong> Past performance, future results, et cetera. So there’s that to look forward to.<\/p>\n

Andruw Jones does not hit well in positions of any importance.<\/strong> In 2008, Jones’ posted line in the cleanup spot was .000\/.000\/.000. In 2009, as the Rangers’ designated hitter, he elevated this to .215\/.331\/.459. Elevated<\/em>. At this point in his career, Andruw Jones, surrounded by a monstrous lineup playing in an extremely hitter-friendly park, can at best become Jayson Nix. But with power. Until he gets hurt. And the Sox have no such monstrous lineup.<\/p>\n

Omar Vizquel will not have a significantly better season at age 43 than he did at age 42.<\/strong> Sorry, that’s just not how it works anymore.<\/p>\n

Mark Kotsay will have a worse season than the very Brian Anderson he was traded for.<\/strong> Just a hunch. Anderson has nothing to lose in Kansas City and Kotsay, when not acting as DH, has to fill in for the full-time air strike in right or at first. Anderson’s .255\/.335\/.400 will look pretty good in comparison.<\/p>\n

Paul Konerko trade rumors start flying in May.<\/strong> Someone’s going to need him. I’m not saying he leaves Chicago; I’m just saying others will be penciling in his itinerary for him.<\/p>\n

We will pine for the days of the South Side softball attack.<\/strong> Oh wait! No we won’t, because Andruw Jones and Mark Kotsay are all the firepower anyone needs. Anyone! Playoffs! Team of Destiny!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fate of the most DHingest players on the DHingest team in the DHingest little city in America, ordered chronologically from saddest to truest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[332,150,15,108,377,623,598,38,497,289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}