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Well I"ve been watching this thread for a while now (go figure, its' the hometown team and my avatar pic), and also have been playing this team with the real world rosters. I'll give some thoughs from my end on this.
First off, I perosanlly think this is a blessing in disguse. Woodward, IMHO, is a waste. He strikes out too much, he's not that great of a hitter, and for being such a bad offense threat, i'd demand Mark Belanger or Ozzie Smith type defense. This guy has neither.
Unfortuenatly you're right, the Jays left side of the infield sucks ass. Chris Gomez I found wasnt any better, Dave Berg, although a better hitter than Woodward or Gomez, sucked jsut as bad at defense (eventully I threw him into RF, then traded him for a five star OF prospect....silly Diamondbacks).
My advice, if he's ready, would be to try out Russ Adams. I had him replace Woodward and Gomez, and he did a bangup job. This worked until I was able to upgrade to a better UI guy (some guy from the Royals, I forget his name but he can field six poistions and all ebtter than Berg), than put him back in the minors to work on his eye, as he was striking out too muhc for my liking.
I eventully traded Woodward, Douglass and another pitcher to Tampa Bay for Upton and another prospect, this should relieve the SS debate once and for all. but again, jsut my opinion.
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