Welcome, Marlon Anderson

I must admit, my earliest recollection of Marlon Anderson is *not* as the majors-leading best PH last season. I remember him as an up and coming second baseman with the Phillies in 1999, that at that time the team was pretty high on.

Obviously, something must have gone wrong, and it was not his fielding percentage, that send him on the road to Tampa Bay, St. Louis, NY Mets and Washington. Somewhere on the way he was demoted from a regular infielder to utility infielder-outfielder with pinch-hitting duties. And, from what little I know about it, has gradually become very good at it.

All in all nice September pickup for the Dodgers, especially that we only gave up Jhonny Nunez (rhp) in the process. It makes sense that LA did not keep oft-injured Ricky Ledee in the primary LH PH spot for the stretch run:

Look:

Marlon Anderson: OBP .331 - SLG .423 - BA .274
Ricky Ledee: with Dodgers: OBP - .273, SLG - .396, BA - .245
with Mets (ouch!): OBP - .125, SLG - .067, BA - .067

I'm not a stat-head by any means, but can do the math ;).