Talk:Soriano Caves, Will be Nats Opening Day LF/@comment-93324-20060322214757

An "elite 2B" ... at the plate, maybe. And so far as I know, nobody&quot;s ever gotten a hit, or drawn a walk, or struck out, etc. while playing second base (Soriano does his damndest not to draw a walk when he&quot;s actually at the plate as well, but that&quot;s another discussion). I never understood why this was such an issue, him "losing value" as a FA next year because he goes from being a great offensive player for a 2B to merely an above-average offensive OF. Everyone (and especially Soriano) seems to have forgotten that he&quot;s an atrocious second baseman, maybe the worst starting 2B in baseball. I mean, really, what good is it to be able to say, "hey, guys, I&quot;m a second baseman, check out my offense" when you&quot;re costing the team 20 runs a season compared to the average 2B? As a GM, I&quot;m not going to shell out cash for a shitty defensive 2B that can kind of hit (at a .283 EqA, he ain&quot;t exactly Joe DiMaggio) any more than I&quot;m going to fork it over for a decent-hitting, (hopefully) average-fielding OF. Of course, as a GM, I wouldn&quot;t have gotten this guy on the spec that he&quot;d suddenly want to play OF after unsuccessful conversion attempts by the Yankees and Rangers in the first place. Of course, as a GM, I wouldn&quot;t have signed Cristian Guzman. There&quot;s a lot of things Jim Bowden has done that I wouldn&quot;t have done...