What To Expect From Bill Hall

By , 1/8/2010 10:23 am

A lot of people tend to associate the versatile Bill Hall with his 2005-2006 run of excellence, when he was one of the best offensive shortstops in the game.  Only 3 years have passed since Hall boasted a slugging percentage of .553 over the course of a season, but it might as well be 100 years ago.

Bill Hall’s 3 year averages are: .229/.291/.391.  Just for some perspective on how bad that is, Nick Green (my favorite player of all time) hit .236/.303/.366 last season with the Red Sox.

What Hall does bring to the table is versatility.  Over his career, the 30-year-old has played every position except 1B, C, and P, and has basically been an average defender at each spot.  However, he has not played SS since 2006, and he primarily been used as a 3B or corner outfielder in recent years.  That is not to say that he couldn’t fill in at SS in a pinch, but it doesn’t seem likely that he would be the only guy on the roster who could back up Marco Scutaro at SS.

The bottom line is this: I am not convinced that Bill Hall would be able to contribute more to the big team than Tug Hulett.  Hulett will be 27 in February, hit very well in AAA last year, and most importantly, he’s actually played SS as recently as last season (along with all the other positions Hall has played, with the exception of CF, an area where the team is very adequately covered).

Here’s hoping that Hulett is given some strong consideration this spring.

Next up: we’ll take a look at the Red Sox starting lineup, as it appears to be complete.

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