Peralta still sounds a bit mystified over how the third base situation played out last year. "In...

Peralta still sounds a bit mystified over how the third base situation played out last year. "In Spring Training, they didn't say to me that I'd be playing third base [during the season]," he said. "Then one day in the middle of the season, they say I'm playing third base."

Castrovince.

Great job, Wedge.

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Nearby, as Castrovince toiled away hustling down slivers of new news anywhere he could find them, Paul Hoynes was watching Let’s Make a Deal, occasionally banging out an answer to this Sunday’s Hey Hoynsie off the top of his head. Somewhere in the distance, Ingraham and Ocker took turns burning each other with cigarettes.

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by Ockus_NYC on Feb 22, 2010 5:31 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

Somewhere in the distance, Ingraham and Ocker took turns burning each other with cigarettes.

Okay, you got me with that one…

I could really use an oscillation overthruster

by stuart dean on Feb 22, 2010 5:48 PM EST up reply actions

I’ll just try to play how I play."

“It’s a great experience,” he said of fatherhood.

"I'm a baseball lifer. It's what I do." —Manny Acta

by westbrook on Feb 22, 2010 5:48 PM EST reply actions

I love how that quote is the same article that talks about these great preseason 2-on-1 meetings that the team does. How was 3rd base not a topic of Peralta’s meeting last year? It was definitely an issue at that time.

by dgcambridge on Feb 22, 2010 6:03 PM EST reply actions

Maybe we need to get an LGT member to sit in on those meetings to make sure all relevant issues are discussed.

by Buckeye Brad on Feb 22, 2010 6:11 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs

I vote for Adam to find a way to communicate to him during his Goodyear trip. Maybe a chant from the stands? Pass him a note during an autograph session? Or perhaps hand out T-shirts to all the fans with block text: “JHONNY YOU WILL BE TRADED THIS YEAR.” I bet Steve Smith would wear one.

by dgcambridge on Feb 23, 2010 12:37 PM EST up reply actions

I’d like to see the context of this quote, because on the surface it just sounds unbelievable. Here is an article from February 13th, last year, on the topic.

by APV on Feb 22, 2010 6:42 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

For those too lazy to click and read, here is the opening line of that article:

If his future is indeed at third base, as manager Eric Wedge and general manager Mark Shapiro have both said, then Jhonny Peralta said that’s "no problem.

by APV on Feb 22, 2010 6:52 PM EST up reply actions

Nice job on the research.

by JulioBernazard on Feb 23, 2010 8:12 AM EST up reply actions

Yeah, I think this was a pretty clear case of a player only hearing what he wanted to hear.

Robbie Alomar claimed that Shapiro promised not to trade him. We know that wasn’t true, and we know this isn’t true either. Communicating thing clearly is the one consistent thing that everyone always raves about the Indians.

by Jay on Feb 22, 2010 7:20 PM EST up reply actions