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I agree. Mike's skills have eroded behind the plate and with the advanced age, I don't know how he will handle catching so much. I think the Mets pretty much figured that out and that's why they didn't want to resign him, even for one year. LoDuca so many times has been accused of tiring in the second half and he is at least 4 or 5 years younger than Mike. How is Mike going to respond and not to be mean but he isn't very good defensively at first base either, not like LoDuca who can play first and left field pretty well. Mike's bat has slowed some too but with all the catching he will be doing might tire him there too. He would have been better off in the American League as a DH so he can rest and catch maybe once or twice a week. San Diego tends to pick up a lot of ex Dodgers so we can just add Piazza to the list...I don't know if it's on purpose or not but it is interesting.
Kristin
Bigdgc2005@... wrote:
The offense of the Angels worries me also, it seems they haven't done a thing to upgrade their offense this whole off-season, but i did not think that Piazza was the answer. He is a 37-year- old catcher that is way past his prime, with maybe 1 or 2 seasons left in him. His signing with the padres to me did not make any sense at any way. He would have been better off going to a AL team so he can DH more often then play in the field.Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Steinhoff <statmeister@hotmail.com>
To: BlueBallsandStrikes@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:34:23 -0800
Subject: RE: [BlueBallsandStrikes] Mike Piazza signs...
I was hoping he would sign with the Angels to be a DH and backup catcher. The Halos offense concerns me.Oh well.-AS
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