Iwamura

Don know how I never thought of this til now but, A's oughta make a play at Aki Iwamura. I do not enjoy Adam Kennedy, and I do not enjoy whoever it is we send out there if he can't play. To be completely fair, Iwamura isn't exactly a big upgrade over kennedy, if one at all. They both can put up a solid average, take a walk, steal a base here and there, play a bit of infield defense. The difference here is really age, Iwamura is like 3 years younger. Rays can't really use him since they got Longoria/Zobrist, so they kind of need to deal him this offseason. He's comming off injury to boot, so he should be able to be gotten cheap.

I guess I just don want us to have a wacky year next year where things actually pan out with the pitching and we still have two blackholes on the left side of the infield. Iwamura, it seems as if you can count on his production; Kennedy's year just screams fluke to me. No, it isn't an earth shattering move to rocket the A's into contention, but it is a move that would please me.