The Sun reports that the O’s are interested in the scrappiest, guttiest little spark plug in baseball– David Eckstein.
From the aforementioned article:
Eckstein embodies the hard-nosed style the Orioles are trying to establish, but there are questions about his defense — especially his arm. With the Cardinals last year, Eckstein made a career-high 20 errors to go with a .960 fielding percentage, the second lowest of his career. He has nine errors in 52 games this year, with a .957 fielding percentage.
Any mention of David Eckstein has to be coupled with terms like ‘hard-nosed,’ ’scrappy,’ ‘gutsy,’ ’sparkplug,’ and ‘gritty.’ A few seasons ago, I could bite the bullet and deal with this. Now all the grittiness of his game has used up Eckstein a bit. His defense has slipped this season and there are obviously questions about his arm.
Felipe Lopez and now David Eckstein. The O’s are trying to get a stopgap at short. I guess I’d take Lopez over Eckstein at this point. Lopez isn’t as scrappy and gritty like Eckstein, but he’s younger and has a little more to offer a team at this point.
David Eckstein, possible Oriole….I’m leaving on that note.
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