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Senor Choke

By The Anti-Blez on Thursday, July 28, 2005

Next to Jason Swindall, there's no other millionaire ballplayer on the Oakland roster that gets our goat as much as Eric "Chokey" Chavez. The T-shirt salesman goes on and on about how important Chavez is to the Oakland lineup, but we know the truth: Chavez is NOT clutch. And now, thanks to SignRickey, we have the numbers to prove it:

Right now he's hitting .279, but his average with runners in scoring position is .220, including 33 Ks in 118 ABs with RISP.

Broken down further:

--He's hitting .184 with a runner on 2B

--He's hitting .133 with runners on 1B and 3B

--He's hitting .182 with the bases loaded.

With 0 outs he's hitting .344, 1 out .277, and 2 outs .191 (no surprise there).

And while he led the AL in walks last season with 95, he's only walked 38 times this season (on pace for 61).

He's also struck out 89 times already this season (on pace for 143 whiffs), compaared to 99 K's for all of last season.

We think it's high time for Moron Macha to drop Chokey down a couple of spots in the lineup.

In fact, how about this lineup:

Kendall
Kotsay
Crosby
Johnson
Swisher
Chavez
Hatteberg
Payton
Ellis

We like that much more than having Chokey in the cleanup spot day after day, where he does very little cleaning up.

2 Comments:

At 7/28/2005 10:06 PM, Blogger The Anti-Blez

SR...

You left somebody off your list:

John Jaha

Or, should that be John Jaha-ha-ha-ha-ha? Because the joke is not only on Chokey, it's on all of Chokey's Asslicking fans!

 
At 7/28/2005 10:36 PM, Blogger The Anti-Blez

Right you are, SR!

And there's another reason Swisher should have that nut-ectomy and give one of his nuts to Chokey: If Chokey has a nut of his own, it will give the T-shirt salesman something else to suck on!

 

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