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He is a wimp. I question his desire to play and honestly he took a crap load of money to do nothing. He is like Andrew Bynum.
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He is a wimp. I question his desire to play and honestly he took a crap load of money to do nothing. He is like Andrew Bynum.
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Grady got busted up by his style of play. He often got a late break, or started the wrong route, to fly balls and used his speed to get close enough to dive for the catch. He must have averaged 3 or 4 diving attempts per game. Multiply that by the 160 games per season he played from 2005 through 2008 and you've got a lot crashing into the ground and outfield walls. That's probably more hits than a lot of NFL running backs take!
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A couple of micro fracture surgeries and some back injuries. The guy missed something like 5 games in 4 years from 2005-08, and always played like his hair was on fire. So, come 2009, he just decided he needed to take a lot of days off? That's idiotic. Like bucklion said, it wasn't his fault our idiot front office gave him a contract when it was evident his body was breaking down. As for the Bynum comparison, totally baseless. Bynum was known to be lazy and a malcontent. You never heard a bad word about Sizemore from anyone.
For a 4 year period, he might have been my favorite Indian to watch play...ever. Unfortunately, he ends up another in a long line of Tribe "what coulda beens"...
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*OSUBucknut10*
Buckaholic
Which leads me to believe that Grady didn't do a very good job keeping in game shape and preparing etc. Perhaps he should have done a better job training rather than trying to be a teen heart throb all the time.
Not to mention, he really wasn't even that great. Very overrated bc honestly his hitting was average. Good fielder, mediocre hitter who had no business being a 1 hitter as he wasn't good at making contact a lot like a #1 would.
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The entire premise of Sizemore being the best centerfielder in the game but "overrated", at least to you, from 2005-2008 is hilarious.
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The entire premise of Sizemore being the best centerfielder in the game but "overrated", at least to you, from 2005-2008 is hilarious.
He was overrated.Doesn't mean he was bad. He struck out on average 142 times a year during that span. His batting average was a good yet not exactly amazing .281 during that time span. For a lead-off hitter he wasn't all that great and was not a true lead-off hitter. He was just fast. He was never all that far away from an even SO to hit ratio. Look at another memorable CF for CLE in Lofton and compare. Lofton almost always was dead even in Walks to Strike outs. Lofton almost always averaged near a 2:1 ration on hits to SO's.
Grady, I will say he was pretty good from 05-08. I watched him play plenty though and he was over-hyped. He is just like Hafner. Wouldn't be shocked if Grady and Hafner were both on roids and then when they got off them their bodies deteriorated.
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