Get to Know Your Cubs : Alfonso Soriano
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Name: Alfonso Soriano
Date of Birth: 1/7/1976
Hometown: San Pedro de Macoris, DR
Position: Left Field
Marital Status: Married
Hotness Factor: 5.0
Alfonso, Fonzie, Alfie, the Little Hopper. With a guy like this where exactly do you start? His ginormous contract? The little hop that amuses and annoys? That dazzling white smile?
Soriano skipped the traditional path of getting sbouted, drafted or signed to a minor league deal and instead signed with the Hiroshima Carp. While his time in Japan is fairly well known Soriano actually only played 9 games with the varsity team, and signing after a year with the Yankees in 1998. In 1999 he got his first hit, a game-winning home run. That alone could have been the Disney movie, but Soriano wasn't done yet. The Yankees eventually traded him to Texas in one of the biggest and most controversial deals, wherein the Yankees got Alex Rodriguez and Soriano went off to play second base in Texas. Strangely neither player actually plays second anymore.
After a few years in Texas Soriano was traded again, to the Nationals where he was unwillingly moved to outfield. Robinson wrote Soriano into the lineup, Soriano refused, there was a 2 day staredown ending with the Nationals threatening to put him on the disqualified list, meaning no money, and no credit for playing time aka, no free agency at the end of the season. Basically he was blackmailed into playing left, but I guess I can't really blame the Nationals.
a few months and $136 million dollars later one Mr. Alfonso Soriano became a Chicago Cub.
With the Cubs Soriano has unfortunately settled into a pattern of having a slow start. Although the current .224 BA is making me long for the .260 days. The good news is he usually end the season with good numbers so here's hoping that the rest of the season is spent making up for the first 2 months. If the Cubs are looking for a third baseman Soriano did play there as a kid, so I say try it out for a game or two.
And if that doesn't work just start smiling at the plate Fonzie, that smile will blind the pitcher and your on base percentage will skyrocket with all those walks.
What did I say about that smile. Dazzling!
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Date of Birth: 1/7/1976
Hometown: San Pedro de Macoris, DR
Position: Left Field
Marital Status: Married
Hotness Factor: 5.0
Alfonso, Fonzie, Alfie, the Little Hopper. With a guy like this where exactly do you start? His ginormous contract? The little hop that amuses and annoys? That dazzling white smile?
Soriano skipped the traditional path of getting sbouted, drafted or signed to a minor league deal and instead signed with the Hiroshima Carp. While his time in Japan is fairly well known Soriano actually only played 9 games with the varsity team, and signing after a year with the Yankees in 1998. In 1999 he got his first hit, a game-winning home run. That alone could have been the Disney movie, but Soriano wasn't done yet. The Yankees eventually traded him to Texas in one of the biggest and most controversial deals, wherein the Yankees got Alex Rodriguez and Soriano went off to play second base in Texas. Strangely neither player actually plays second anymore.
After a few years in Texas Soriano was traded again, to the Nationals where he was unwillingly moved to outfield. Robinson wrote Soriano into the lineup, Soriano refused, there was a 2 day staredown ending with the Nationals threatening to put him on the disqualified list, meaning no money, and no credit for playing time aka, no free agency at the end of the season. Basically he was blackmailed into playing left, but I guess I can't really blame the Nationals.
a few months and $136 million dollars later one Mr. Alfonso Soriano became a Chicago Cub.
With the Cubs Soriano has unfortunately settled into a pattern of having a slow start. Although the current .224 BA is making me long for the .260 days. The good news is he usually end the season with good numbers so here's hoping that the rest of the season is spent making up for the first 2 months. If the Cubs are looking for a third baseman Soriano did play there as a kid, so I say try it out for a game or two.
And if that doesn't work just start smiling at the plate Fonzie, that smile will blind the pitcher and your on base percentage will skyrocket with all those walks.
What did I say about that smile. Dazzling!
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Player Page
You Tube Video
9 Comments
JulieDiCaro said:
He DOES have a great smile. But I saw this National Geographic special once where they unwrapped a mummy, and I swear it looked JUST like Soriano. Something about the really thin nose, thin face and lots of teeth. Now, that's all I can think about whenever I look at him.
canopygrl said:
5.0? Placing him on the same shelf as Koske? Not that either one is a drop dead hottie, but maybe a 5.5; just for the smile alone! J/K, great work as always. Keeping me entertained in between naps.
canopygrl said:
What is up with the italics?
flyball said:
oops, that was me
yeah, he's probably higher than Fukudome, now that I have my caffiene I'd probably change it to a 6.0 (I'm a much nicer person after my morning coffee)
JulieDiCaro said:
you guys are way more generous than i am. we've got rich, dlee, milty, hufflepuff, guzman and (i hate to admit this) theriot.
the rest of them should all get 2s.
JulieDiCaro said:
OMG--I forgot about REEDZ!
Carl Heartscubs Gierhan said:
And Randy Wells, half the time.
JulieDiCaro said:
in dim lighting. in profile.
Carl Heartscubs Gierhan said:
Hooray! The Vegemite has arrived!
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