Thursday, December 20, 2007

Jimenez and Fick are Picked Up---Glad to Get Rid of 'Em

As the headline suggests- Robert Fick and D'Angelo "E6" Jimenez were picked up by the Padres and Cardinals, respectively, within the last two days. If you read Barry Svrluga's blog on washingtonpost.com, you will know the origin of Jimenez's nickname. If not, here we go. Svrluga started calling him this in Spring Training this past year, because he was getting so used to writing "E6" into scorebooks when Jimenez was playing. When you're scoring, E stands for an error and 6 is the symbol for a shortstop. You can figure out the rest. Anyway, the name stuck. I don't really see why the Cardinals would want E6. He's really bad and they already have a bad starting shortstop, Cesar Izturis. Jimenez's not a backup really because he can't field (hence the name.) Fick played for the Padres in 2005 before he went to the Nats. He bad, but he is a backup catcher/first baseman after all. He's usable, and had a torrid September with more playing time because of Dmitri Young's injury. Also, Mark Prior seems to be a hot commodity. Generally, the Nats can't afford hot commodities, and especially shouldn't overpay for them when they have one win in the last two seasons combined.

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