Old and in the way

A specter hovers over the infield sucking the collective will to hit. That Specter comes in the form of anyone not named Freddy Sanchez. The Giants have trotted out a veritable poo-poo platter of middle infielders the past season and half. Okay, "trotted" is being generous, wheeled is more accurate. I'm hoping that in twenty years I can laugh at the Miguel Tejada experience, but for now I'd rather curl into a ball and cry. As for the rest of them, well at least we don't have to deal with Bill Hall anymore, or do we?

Take a look at a comparrison of two players and tell me who you'd rather have?

	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP
Player A	32	21	65	60	2	11	1	0	0	2	0	1	3	8	0.183	0.219	0.200	0.419	21	12	3
Player B	31	16	41	38	6	6	2	0	0	1	2	1	3	8	0.158	0.220	0.211	0.430	24	8	2

Player A is better, but not by a much. Who is Player A? That would be what Ryan Theriot, player B is of course Mr. Bill Hall! Remind me again how he is an upgrade over Mike Fontenot or Jeff Keppinger? Bill Hall was a disaster and Theriot is picking up right where he left off. If the Giants don't do something to get some productivity in the middle infield 2012 is going to look awfully similar to 2011. I'm dissapointed that we're only a game over .500 at this point, but also kind of surprised we're not significantly worse than that. I promise that for my next post I will blog about something positive.