A’s Should Keep Holliday Until July
May 26th, 2009
Anyone that follows a number of baseball blogs and articles is hearing that trades could be made very soon. “Teams are willing to deal early”. We keep hearing it, but nothing of substance has really happened. (I wouldn’t count the Jake Peavy-to-the-White Sox deal, because it’s always been known that Peavy has been available since November.) The A’s shouldn’t be looking to deal their most rumored bait, Matt Holliday, while everyone disputes his career numbers because of Coors Field.
Apparently, Holliday isn’t getting a lot of respect for past success. I’ll accept that last year’s 25 homers and 88 RBI’s weren’t very impressive, but he did hit .321, and has hit .340 and .326 in 2007 and 2006, respectively. His last three years coming into this one were three fantastic seasons. Anyone that thinks his current .264 batting average isn’t going to improve, hasn’t been following baseball very closely. Holliday’s numbers might have been inflated by Coors Field, but not this drastically. He’s a streak hitter and is one or two hot weeks from his numbers getting closer to where they were the previous three seasons. The A’s shouldn’t deal him until those numbers come up, or else they could be taking 25 cents on the dollar.
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