So, I made the decision to move Scott Rolen in a trade the other week. Many of you know the problems I had with Scott under-performing from his card stats. I really, really liked Scott, and kept waiting for his time to break out. 75 games into the 2001 season I traded for Rolen with the NY Rippers. I sent another long time favorite Vlad to NY for Scott. At the time Scott was really not doing well for the Rippers and Billy had enough.
Scott came and finished the 2001 season for the Stonecutters with the following line:
| Year | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG |
| 2001 | 87 | 327 | 64 | 101 | 25 | 2 | 16 | 58 | 47 | 85 | 15 | 5 | 0.309 | 0.400 | 0.544 |
Man, I thought I hit the jackpot! Rolen was rollen in Atlanta, and couldn't wait for 2002 to come around as hit card got even better than 2001. 2002 I had a stronger team, and with the addition of Rolen I thought I would be able to take the division. Well, I came in 2nd place cause the Tribe had a great team I was not expecting. Rolen gave the Stonecutters the following production.
| Year | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG |
| 2002 | 162 | 600 | 95 | 127 | 22 | 10 | 24 | 91 | 76 | 115 | 3 | 4 | 0.212 | 0.322 | 0.402 |
Ugh, everything that I hoped Rolen would be he was not. Hitting a horrible .212 with a slugging percentage of .402 was god awful. I wanted to cry. I believed that Rolen was the best third man out there in 2002 between the offensive stats and his defense. While Rolen lived up to the the defense he was way short on what was more important, offense.
As I picked up the pieces of the 2002 year looking forward to the 2003 year again my hopes for Rolen to be that middle of the order stud fell flat.
| Year | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG |
| 2003 | 97 | 380 | 56 | 89 | 33 | 2 | 13 | 50 | 38 | 90 | 4 | 4 | 0.234 | 0.319 | 0.434 |
No matter where I put Scott in the lineup he did nothing. Sure he was hitting a little bit better avg, and slugging, but it wasn't enough. The one bright spot is that in 97 games he hit way more doubles than the whole year in 2002.
So I decided to end the Rolen experiment and sent him off on his way to Seattle where he seems to be enjoying it out there so far. In 6 games he's hit 2 doubles, 2 home runs and driven in 6. Good luck, Scott. I wish we had better memories, but we will always have that awesome run in 2001.
No comments:
Post a Comment