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Lopes is basically trying to be the guy who lets us trade Ackley once Dustin gets ultra-expensive. No HR power, but he runs the bases like a gazelle. THIRTEEN triples in half a season? Yeesh. He's a Joey Cora/Harold Reynolds type to me, but what I really want to see is whether he has a little Chuck Knoblauch in him. I dunno what to make of Franca yet, other than I like Gabe and wish him well. DeCarlo is still my boy, but I think he'll come along a little slower than Lopes. We'll see, he might surprise me there too.
I'm glad we got some good teens into the system this year. Can't just draft college boys, and we need to untangle the knot up top with Seager/Ackley/Franklin/Miller/Romero/Catricala/Liddi/whatever before we add even more guys to the mix. The SS I'm most interested in who's in the low minors is actually Chris Taylor. Especially if he's put on a keg of muscle this offseason as some UVA fans have said.
So let me know how he looks down in Spring Training, wouldja? :)
~G