Rowand Signs with Giants
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<< <i>5 years, $60 million. Seems like a bargain in today's market. >>
Maybe he gave the "Mitchell Report Discount"
he should have signed with a contender at least.
giants gave him an extra year to get him. even 5 years is way too much in these days. for a team in rebuilding mode, i would have rather seen the giants either keep their money and sign fringe players to one or two year contracts to fill out their positions while they 1.) build their farm system and 2.) wait for bigger fish to come along to sign (i.e. teixeira). rowand is a nice player, but let's face it...he had a career year last year. before that, he was a + defensive center fielder that was a average/slight below average hitter. great for a ball club with big hitters (like the phils with howard/utley or the cubs with lee/ramirez/soriano) but not so great for a ball club that has absolutely the worst lineup in the majors. you dont build around a guy like aaron rowand. he is not a guy you throw 60 million at and become your center piece hitter.
another reactionary move for the giants...like last year with zito (and dave roberts, to a lesser degree).
No small ball garbage, no grinderness hoopla...just bad pitching! Why do baseball fans always have to attach some type of mythical reason to a good or bad performance. Their staff had reality punch them in the face, and their ERA reverted back to normalcy, simple as that. Not because Aaron Rowand and his weird narrow shoulders were gone.
I even had someone say it was a full run worse because he wasn't playing centerfield for them anymore!
Whit Sox fans and the mythology believers of Aaron Rowand, their Team ERA in 2004 was 4.91, in 2005 it was 3.61, and in 2006 it was 4.61. Last I checked Aaron Rowand was the centerfielder in 2004 when they had a poor ERA as well. Then ask yourself why the Phillies ERA got worse with him in center, than was the previous year. If you are going to use dumb analysis, then there is a dumb one for you that shoots you in the nose.
The second time I checked, no defensive player saves an average of one run per game, because if that were the case all the average team would need to do is sign three of them and they would only give up 1.5 runs per game.
I just hate hearing mythical garbage reasons assigned to as why things occur. The truth may be boring, but it is the truth. Sometimes you just get beat, some times you get hot, sometimes cold...and if it occurs at the right or wrong time you are branded hero or goat...unfairly.
-skinpinch