The White Sox
want you to know they’re not at all worried about outfielder Louis Robert,
their #4 prospect and, according to MLB Pipeline, the 44th best in
all of baseball. Just because the
21-year old didn’t hit a homerun this past season doesn’t mean he won’t in the
future. Team officials are sure the lack
of power was due to a nagging thumb injury.
Well, let’s hope
so. The international signing of this
young Cuban star is going to cost the Sox an estimated $50 million. No Sox fan wants this to be another waste of
money a la Adam Dunn, but still, I have to wonder. What would happen if Robert were a girl, and
one signed for that much money? I doubt
fans would be so forgiving.
Fear of (yet
more) flops may be one of the motivations that keeps teams from signing female
ballplayers. If, God forbid, Robert were
to go the way of Dunn and Adam LaRoche, do you think they’d want to stick their
necks out on someone named Clare or Liz?
Virtually every team in major-league baseball has a Dunn and LaRoche in
its front-office closet, which is to say virtually every team has an incentive
to ignore women players.
If there’s such a
thing as reincarnation, I can only hope that Branch Rickey comes back as
another Branch Rickey and he likes “A League of Their Own.”
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