Comments on: The Ghost of Rowand http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/01/29/the-ghost-of-rowand/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Wed, 05 Dec 2018 22:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Nick Schaefer http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/01/29/the-ghost-of-rowand/#comment-6304 Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:27:28 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=10055#comment-6304 Not sure I agree. At the time I remember the consensus being Anderson was an elite defensive center fielder although FRAA had him as roughly comparable to what Rowand had been doing beforehand.

Regardless, not all Glove First guys are created equal–on either side of the ball. Still, that ’06 team did win 90 games in part because their core bats performed enough to carry their lineup voids.

(Triplem–I do agree he had an interesting career. Am I remembering correctly he even tried learning a knuckleball?)

]]> By: Triplem http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/01/29/the-ghost-of-rowand/#comment-6300 Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:50:02 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=10055#comment-6300 Even though Brian Anderson didn’t pan out, he had an interesting career. After the Sox, he went to the Red Sox, then the Royals, Yankees ( as a pitcher!!) then the Dodgers, Rockies & finally back to the White Sox, but never made it out of Spring Training for the last 5 teams.

]]> By: Russ http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/01/29/the-ghost-of-rowand/#comment-6292 Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:36:07 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=10055#comment-6292 I’ll agree with that. Sometimes it is career years that win championships and 2005 was certainly a career year for Rowand.

And the Sox recognized that at the time, to their credit. What they didn’t recognize was that Brian Anderson was a step down defensively even if he didn’t crash into walls; they had the offense to carry a weak-hitting center fielder, but Anderson wasn’t that great a fielder.

]]> By: Mike Lipkin http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/01/29/the-ghost-of-rowand/#comment-6291 Mon, 29 Jan 2018 21:10:26 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=10055#comment-6291 I always felt that Rowand was overrated. After leaving the White Sox, he had only one season that would be considered above mediocre.

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