By: crister

crister — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 03:13:50 +0000

I am not in any way a Pennington fan and am inclined to consider him a faster version of Barton, but he has played better since moving from shortstop to second base. I’m reminded of how Inge was incredibly bad as a catcher, but once move from behind the plate, he turned into a solid if not from time to time very good player. I don’t believe that Pennington’s going to have an Inge-like transformation, but might being moved off of the more demanding and glamorous position have in some way altered Pennington’s outlook or expectations of him as an offensive contributor? That or it’s just another case of a guy feasting on sucky September pitching. Man, how I hate Septembers with its fool’s gold stats and clouding of gaging a player’s real ability with all the watered down rosters. I remember Ellis having bad offensive numbers for the first five months of a season only to go all gangbusters in the last four weeks to get his over all numbers to a respectible level and sucker a lot of people into believing that the following year will finally be the one time and time again. Yeah right…

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