Yeah, too many power hitting first basemen is a problem worth having, especially since--unlike the mid-sixties--we have the DH and Devers can play another position. It was painful, in real time, to watch Orlando try to play 3b and the OF. McCovey was no OF either. That said, trading Cepeda for Sadecki in 1966 was still the worst Giants trade ever! I told Cepeda that when I saw him in Cooperstown a few years before they put him into the HoF. Where Bonds belongs, too, btfw!
Yeah, too many power hitting first basemen is a problem worth having, especially since--unlike the mid-sixties--we have the DH and Devers can play another position. It was painful, in real time, to watch Orlando try to play 3b and the OF. McCovey was no OF either. That said, trading Cepeda for Sadecki in 1966 was still the worst Giants trade ever! I told Cepeda that when I saw him in Cooperstown a few years before they put him into the HoF. Where Bonds belongs, too, btfw!