The cure for it's-oh-so-close-to-spring-training blues? Meaningless polls, such as U.S. Democratic presidential primaries, but also those related to baseball. Alexis Rios gets a fair amount of cyber-ink on Da Box, and, while Phil Rogers is not exactly a favorite at Da Box, a reader pointed out that Rogers has Rios has the #2 impact rookie in 2004, right behind Kazuo Matsui of the Mets and just in front of Atlanta's Adam LaRoche. Putting aside, for now, our questions about whether Rogers is right or not, here's the question of the day for Bauxites: how many at-bats will Rios get this year? I'm not asking how you think he'll do when he reaches the majors, just how much you instinctively feel he'll play. I'll start the bidding: the hunch here is that Rios gets 50 September at-bats.
We'll know more in two months, of course, but we'll check back at the end of the year to see how our first impressions went, and whoever's closest wins the all-time favorite, non-material gift of parents from every nation: love.
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