(We hardly knew ye)
One thing that I can't stand about the Ned Coletti regime is when young players are cast aside for older veterans. It's like he's trying to turn the Dodgers into a Southern California version of the Giants (except most of our prospects turn out to be good). Unless the younger player is exceptionally good (Ethier, Kemp, Kershaw, etc.), the older mediocre veteran will always get the job over the unproven potential of a prospect. Last year, Delwyn Young was sacrificed and traded to the Pirates to make room for Juan Castro and Doug Mientkiewicz. Delwyn ended up doing pretty good for the Pirates until he hit the wall in September (.470 OPS), probably because he was not used to playing that often in the Dodgers organization. Aren't the Dodgers looking for a left handed bat off the bench? Sure could have used Delwyn right about now.
This brings me to Chin-Lung Hu. He's got a great glove and has shown flashes that he could be an adequate bat. Sounds like a perfect recipe for our backup SS to give Furcal one day off a week. And yet, the Dodgers have invited 3 non-roster SS (Alfredo Amezaga, Nick Green, and old friend Angel Berroa). These guys are not even as good as Hu is now, and Hu still has a chance to at least get a little bit better, but I have a terrible feeling that one of those 3 is going to have a great spring training that they have a 0% chance of replicating in the regular season. Colletti and Torre are not going to realize this (of course) and Hu will be sacrificed to make room on the 40-man roster. I'm sure I'll be writing about a Chin-Lung Hu trade by the end of April.
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