LOOK AT THAT HUSTLE!
Trot is gone, and it looks like it will take a long time for Red Sox Nation to get over it.
The goatee'd pine tar covered, 90 MPH hustler is going to the Indians to live in obscurity as a platoon partner with Casey Blake. Honestly, good riddance. I have always been a fan of Trot's but I am a slave to statistics . Looking at Nixon's numbers and health, they have declined so steeply over the past year that JD Drew will be a vast improvement over the Dirt Dog.
Lets look at some numbers:
From 2004-2006
Nixon: 27 HR's 142 RBI, SLG . .425 (.394 LAST YEAR!)
Drew : 66 HR's 229 RBI, SLG .520
But than again Trot gets his uniform dirty, has "heart", hustles all the time and gets into brawls for his teammates. Why aren't these statistics quantifiable? Because if they were Trot's hustle rating would fall in the top 1%. But Bill James still hasn't figure out how to create a statistic for any of the characteristics that makes Nixon "appealing".
Now Trot is gone, joining the parade of World Series heros forced out of town by the tyrannical Theo & Larry. Unfortunately ''heart" couldn't protect Trot from looking silly against left hand pitchers, and "hustle" couldn't keep Trot off the disabled list, and those fights didn't prevent Trot's power numbers from tumbling. Sorry Trot, but your jersey is going in a box under my bed along with my Pokey & Johnny Damon throwbacks.
Just think:
Ortiz, Manny, Drew - the meat of your lineup, this is going to cause headaches for pitching all year (that makes me totally forget the Pats/Indy game) ........((well almost))
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