I’d rank his instincts and first step above any other active player.

DMZ: I agree that the best part of the report is that it gives you a sense as to his breadth of his skills, within the player himself. (Ten years from now, when someone asks about Randy Winn, you can look up the report and see that what his best trait was.) Player-to-player comparisons, within a team, are pretty good, but not great. Team-to-team comps are good.

Note that the only people who responded to the survey are those hardcore baseball fans who saw the player at least 10 games. This is essentially means that you only vote for your own players. So, any hometeam bias would affect all teams. Though, as noted with the Sox/Cards, some hometeam bias is stronger than others.

As for Jeremy Reed, and Randy Winn, etc… like I said, this is a snapshot of readers just like yourselves. If you don’t think that Reed was that good, then you are in a minority… unless of course the fans I reached out to are not representative.

Soriano is going to make $8 million in 2005, and Buck wants him gone. His offense was disappointing last season, his defense was as bad as advertised, and he irritated Buck with a somewhat lackadaisical attitude in the field.

He’s not going to be in Texas long-term, so they’d like to cash him in now, plug Burke in at 2B, Backe into the rotation, and use the money saved from trading Soriano (since Tom Hicks has gotten Fiscal Religion and doesn’t want payroll to go above around $55 million) to bring in Delgado to DH, which is an upgrade over the Colbrunn/Dellucci platoon they are looking at now.