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Since I started a minor flame war last week...
Published 8/25/2008 by sidnancy at Red Reporter
I’ll start another post that would make an excellent off-day thread.   See this?  Justifications for yesterday’s lineup: Rosales, who “hasn’t played much shortstop”, wasn’t started; he played SS exclusively in the minors until TJS.   107-year-old Cabrera, who’s played everywhere but C in his pro career (and except for 1b, he’s played every position more than SS), got the start instead.  FTH? Despite the “youth movement”, Patterson was ...

Where is Adam Rosales?
Published 8/27/2008 by Dunnerer (noreply@blogger.com) at Dunn and Dunner
Cincinnati.com "He hasn't played that much shortstop," Baker said. "I'll get him in there. I want to put him in where he's comfortable." I'm a little late on this, but here are some numbers on some guys who Dusty has played at SS this year. Rosales has played 125 games at SS in the minors Keppinger: 9 in the minors, 131 in the majors (all with the Reds) Cabrera: 296 in the minors, 53 in the majors (240 of those minor league games happened during or before 1998) Hairston: 37 in the minors, 39 majors (33 with Reds) These ...