BP profile features Guillen
posted in Random, players |Baseball Prospectus featured Carlos Guillen today. Subscription required, of course. Guillen was also featured in a short piece in this week’s Sports Illustrated. It’s great he at last gets the recognition he deserves. Suffice it to say, the BP article is a bit, er, numbery, but the conclusion is a familiar refrain.
It’s safe to say that without the Guillen deal, neither franchise [Detroit & Seattle] might be in the position they currently find themselves in. Sadly for the Mariners, Carlos Guillen is playing in a World Series as you read this.
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Hurray for Carlos! He’s my Tiger and he hasn’t gotten nearly the attention he deserves. Great young pitching has drawn much of that attention away from the Tigers’ best hitter and that’s OK, but why so called experts continue to think Ordonez is their best is baffling.
Carlos is like what Jeff Kent was to the Giants. The Tigers traded for an OK player who became a great player after the trade. And the thing that really seals the deal for me is Guillen’s consistancy over the last three seasons - you know, the seasons he has played for the Tigers.
Yeah, it’s nice of the mainstream media to catch up to the internet baseball media, who’ve been touting Guillen’s numbers as being Jeter-quality all along.
I can’t pick just one Tiger. I have to have a running couple. But Granderson is consistently in the upper tier!