news196/ Curtis Bell to CIN or MON?, Gere-Jocies/Hordic to NYM?
[08.14.04]sat.[3:00am]
We have a news updated on the new rookie Curtis Bell, he has said he wants to play for the Cincinnati Reds. Now there is another team out there that wants to sign Bell before he makes up his mind. It's the Montreal Expos, they are going to push for him to sign their tomorrow. The reason being the Expos are 2nd in the NL East behind the Phillies and think if they can sign Bell that they could go to the World Series and end the Yankees streak. Yeah someone seems a little bit crazy, but the Expos would win the wildcard if they made the playoffs. No ones bumping out Philly. Expos are 3 back in the NL East yeah it seems reachable but this is a 24 game season and when the Phillies are all slumping and their record is 8-2 Phillies will only turn it around. MLBjr.tk's prodiction on the Phillies outcome record is 20-4. The 2 other losses being vs. the Yankees and vs. the Astros.
Mark Gere-Jocies of the Expos their best player has said life in New York would be awesome. He said life in the 'Big Red' that being the New York Mets and their historial Red Monster in left field. Mets have contacted Gere-Jocies about a possible trade that may send a good right hand hitter form the Mets to the Expos. Some say possibly Josh Gipson may be traded. Most haven't heard of him well MLBjr.tk has an estimate on his career average stats per season once The Golden Era is over. in a 162 game season they say he'll hit 28 HR 105 RBI .280 AVG on average throughout his career where Mark Gere-Jocies averages would be about 41 HR 130 RBI .325 AVG. However this trade could be benifical because Gere-Jocies is making so much more than Gipson is and high payroll is not good when you don't have much spending money. Another name the Mets are looking into signing this year is newly defensive player Rob Hordic. We all know that there is a 7 man batting line-up and a 9 man defense. So 2 players will not hit. Rob Hordic who led the AL in RBI in 2003 has been defensively benched for the last 5 games by owner CH Harris of the Astros. CH said he is not being punished and said nothing else about the situation. Harris did recently call up future star Josh Graham and signed some new players such as Lamar Radford & Jimmy Fareplay but everyone is shocked that Robby Hordic is not even hitting. We have got to think that Hordic is pretty mad about this move CH Harris has made but will not go public. We tryed talking to Rob after the last Astros game but his agent said he nor Robert will talk to the press today. CH did say if Hordic complains about not hitting then he will be send down to AAA. So thats probably the reason he is keeping his mouth shut. The Astros are making a good run going 11-1 so far this season so even though Hordic's not hitting he may get that chance in October when the Astros ACTUALLY find a good team to play which may point to why their doing so good right now. Thank god the Astros will have a tough 2nd half schedule because their first half was like playing little league teams. Astros did lose to the Expos earlier this season and honestly had no right to lose to that team. Harris has lobbed every game so far and has gotten lucky the opposing team has not gotten ahold of an outcome yet. You have to still give credit to the team that they have won but the real credit will be when they play all 24 games and come out with a good record. MLBjr.tk has prodicted that the team will finish with a 20-4 record. They say they will lose vs. the Phillies and lose both games to the Yankees who are currently on a 30 game winning streak and you may say wow but actually we'll look into this but the all-time winning streak is by the Yankees and its between 35-40 straight wins done in the mid 90s.