Bill Hall

Bill Hall

Here is a player to sell high this off-season. He is going to be very close to 20/20 with 2B/SS/3B eligibility.

I have no doubt those factors will be too hard to ignore for at least one other owner.

The reason to trade him for all you can get is a direct function of 2006 playing time. With Weeks at 2B until the end of the decade, Hall will not see enough appearances at 2B to remain eligble in 2007 much less garner meaningful ABs there. Heck, he may not be eligble for 2006. (I think he will but he will need 4 more appearances at the position.)

The Brewers have stuck with JJ Hardy when he should have been in AAA this year. Now that his bat is picking-up some, I see no reason he won't play even more in 2006. (He hit .182 in the first three months - 29/159 - and has hit .264 in July and August - 45/134.) There goes the majority of Hall's 2005 ABs.

His best chance for meaningful ABs, barring injury, will be at 3B. But, with Russ Brnayan's left-handed-power and OBP along with Hall's righty bat, BH finds himslef on the worng sde of a platoon.

In the Spring, there were rumblings of Hall seeing time in CF. That is out as Brady Clark has turned into a legitimate everyday OF, and with Corey Hart likely to remain as a 4th OF and Nelson Cruz having a great AA/AAA year (.390 OBP, 26 HR 18 SB), I doubt there will be any regular ABs as a 4th OF either.

Also during the Spring, I said Hall would be a great Roto player this year, and I was right on that. And I think will will remain a great Rot player next year - as the 13th, 14th or 15ht player on a roster. Just as I said. What changed is the haul you can land for him this off-season.