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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject: 2006 NL's Biggest Busts
Jon Heyman wrote an article today for SI.com entitled NL's biggest busts and the DBacks had 3 members included in this year's 29 worst NL busts. All three were Proven Veterans™.
Jon Heyman wrote:
The National League has so many busts this year, I squeezed 28 names onto my 25-man list. The Astros alone could have filled out half the list.
In some cases of NL players, the light went out. In others, it was the power. I wouldn't suggest that the absence of the good stuff is what caused most of these guys to go south, or even many of them. But at least in a couple of cases, it can't be ruled out.
Whatever the reason, all these NL players fell down, fell off, got tripped up or messed up too much. (My scout, a longtime big league guy, provides insight as needed.)
21. Luis Gonzalez, OF, Diamondbacks. Arizona owner Ken Kendrick shouldn't have said what he said. There's no hard evidence. Yet it's hard not to notice that the home run totals rose exponentially for a while. Now they're coming down at almost the same rate (13 homers this year).
19. Shawn Green, OF, Mets (formerly of the Diamondbacks). He underperformed so badly that the D-backs had to pay half what's owed him just to get rid of him.
9. Russ Ortiz, P, Diamondbacks (now an Oriole). He won't have to worry about the 100-grand bonus his contract calls for should he be World Series MVP. In actuality, he may be having the worst year of anyone in the bigs (0-8, 9.06).
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