My point is that Craig isn’t and shouldn’t be considered as a serious area of concern for this team. I’m not defending his poor play but to call up another player uses a slot very much needed in the bullpen.

In the overall scheme of things, Monroe isn’t currently an issue.

Below replacement value is not good, no matter how many other left fielders are the same. The fact is that many of the guys who are better than Craig are *way* better, while most of the guys Craig is better than (many of them not starters) are marginally worse than Craig is.

Last year Craig got hot for the second half of the year. There’s no assurance that he’ll do so again. Comparing his performance at this point to last year’s performance at this point is somewhat misleading. He was horrible at this point last year, too.

Craig Monroe has declined for each of the past few years, particularly as far as OBP is concerned. At this time, I’d prefer Raburn or Timo Perez. Perhaps Monroe would perform better if pushed harder (which seems to fit in with the belief of many, who think he’s clutch, and thus better able to perform when it matters to him). If that’s the case, I’d bring someone up and play him. And if that person isn’t an outfielder, Sheffield can play and that person can DH.

There’d also be valuable in trading a sick RH bat for a LH bat.

Currently the standings are done manually. I spent some time looking for some easier update method but haven’t.

If you find one, let me know!

I have a question that may not be appropriate here but I couldnt find an email for you:

How do you post the AL Central standings to your site? Is that an rss feed? or do you update the records manually?

I’m looking to do a similiar thing on my blog and would appreciate any info.

Cheers,
Andy
andguy@gmail.com