December 30, 2006  A Bubba Crosby Retrospective       #8
September 24, 2005 - A fine diving catch.          Happy New
Year!  4 comments to “A Bubba Crosby Retrospective”    1. Red
Hot Mama says:      Shades of Ryan Freel. You know, Freel was
largely ignored in the minors (and during his brief, recurring
stints in the majors) despite perfectly adequate performance.
Maybe this will be the place for Bubba as well. Damn, between
Crosby and Freel, they wouldn’t need anyone else in the
outfield. Dunn could use those half-innings to sit in his
massage chair.    2. BubbaFan says:      Boy, Freel sure has an
interesting history. How do you get send down to A-ball again
when you’ve been playing at the Triple-A level?      It does
make you wonder how much talent there is in the minors, blocked
because of big names ahead of them, or politics, or projections.
Neither Robinson Cano nor Chien-Ming Wang were supposed to
amount to much, according to their projections. Now they are not
only starting, they are stars. But t