CRAIG BIGGIO

CRAIG BIGGIO is a gamer. I know his skills have diminished a lot over the past few years, but the guy is a ballplayer. BILL JAMES ranks Biggio as the 5th best second baseman of all-time and 35th best player in MLB History. About Biggio...

"Craig Biggio is the best player in Major League Baseball today (2000). If you compare Craig Biggio very carefully to Ken Griffey, Jr. in almost any season, you will find that Biggio has contributed more to his team than Griffey has. Let's do 1998 as a starting point...in 1998 Ken Griffey outhomered Biggio 56 to 20, which was a huge thing, 36 homers. Biggio's advantages were...well, everything else." - Bill James, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

As you may have saw, the Astros moved Biggio to left, Berkman to right and have newly acquired Carlos Beltran in centerfield. Biggio was an all-star catcher and they moved him to second base. He was an all-star second baseman and they moved him to centerfield. He's been in the big leagues for almost 20 years and now they just moved him to leftfield. He never complains about it and he plays hard. This year Biggio is having a better year than his last two (.298/.360/.464), and I can't help but pull for him to have a solid '04 campaign.