Hrbek or Cooper?

[Outta Leftfield]

Yeah, YountFan is cool. Taught me everything I know... :wink:

Getting back to Hrbek for a second, though. Yes, he generally does seem to be disappointing. You'd think he'd be a bargain compared to Eddie Murray, for example, since they have almost the same OPS (.887 vs .883) and defense and Hrbek is about 1M cheaper. But Steady Eddie often seems to post monster numbers and but I've never seen a really big year out of Hrbek. Could it be that Hrbek played in a better hitter's park so you have to discount for that?

[honestiago1]

Can produce really big years and can field (a bonus at 1B). I, too, have never seen Hrbek perform extremely well. I had his rookie card (I think it was his rookie card--it was one of the "E" cards) in Wrigley, and he was only average, primarily because he didn't hit lefties. He SHOULD have hit them, but just didn't. Think you can get more and better production out of Cooper, or a platoon, perhaps.