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Daniel Nava - The Rest of the Story |
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Posts: 1008 08/14/09 9:07 AM Veteran Member |
Adam Kilgore has a fascinating story in today's Globe about Daniel Nava.
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2009/08/14/portlands_nava_no_longer_playing_catch_up/
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Posts: 145 08/14/09 9:44 AM |
Go get your shinebox Nava. Great story, hopefully he gets at least a cup of coffee at some point.
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JimRiceRocks |
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Posts: 1086 08/14/09 10:37 AM Veteran Member |
Awesome piece. How can you not root for this guy to succeed!
"You can never have too much bitching" - left coast bosox fan
"No wonder a lot of opponent's announcers have bullpenis envy - left coast bosox fan |
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ancientsoxfogey |
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Posts: 4116 08/14/09 12:04 PM Veteran Member |
Gadzooks, my memory is terrible sometimes.
What is the name of the guy that came through the Sox system several years ago with pretty much the same story as Nava? LHH I think, another sort of stubby guy, hit the tar out of the ball coming out of the independent leagues as I recall, and he did get a brief time with the Sox. We've seen this story before, and I hope somebody can remember the guy's name, because it's going to drive me crazy until it comes out. |
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Posts: 6693 08/14/09 12:14 PM Mike Andrews |
Morgan Burkhart?
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Posts: 4118 08/14/09 12:17 PM Veteran Member |
That's the guy - thanks, Dude!!
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sain and spahn |
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Posts: 935 08/14/09 12:28 PM Veteran Member |
DCRi wrote: To give credit where credit is due, the article was written by Adam Kilgore. Nava is definitely a good story. Having interviewed him for a similar article a few months ago, I can also say that he is a good guy -- someone you want to root for. |
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ancientsoxfogey |
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Posts: 4119 08/14/09 12:35 PM Veteran Member |
Hopefully he's in the lineup tonight so I can catch him. If a guy can hit at AA, you can't ignore him any more, whatever age he is. Of course,
Nava's SS at Portland is way too small to conclude anything yet. But by comparison, Burkhart hit in AA pretty much right out of the gate, whereas Natale,
another more recent feel-good, longshot story, struggled for the first time at AA as I recall, and never did bowl the league over. It will be interesting to
see where Nava fits on the scale.
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Posts: 461 08/14/09 12:43 PM |
Great & feel good story from Daniel Nava! Keep working harder & only 2 steps away from make it to MLB level. Don't give up your dreams, Daniel.
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Posts: 8123 08/14/09 2:18 PM Chris Hatfield |
ancientsoxfogey wrote:Sorta. Natale lost the power he had in the lower minors, but still put up Youkilis-esque OBP numbers, even when he first got to AA. Nava, on the other hand, is hitting for a lot more power this year than Natale ever did. |
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Posts: 932 08/14/09 2:59 PM Veteran Member |
David Laurila wrote:Having watched Nava over a six-game span last year, I'd vouch for the fact that not only is he a good guy, he's also a helluva ballplayer. I loved his approach at the plate. He just knows who he is as a hitter and what he's doing. He takes walks, goes with the pitch when that's appropriate, and drives it when he can. In the field he's adequate, with a decent not great arm. The way he plays the game is all out all the time. You all back there in New England should go take a look at this guy. I don't know what his future as a ballplayer is. He's not young. But if the Sox are smart they'll keep him around even after his playing days are done (hopefully not soon).
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. ~ Frederick Douglass
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DCRi |
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Posts: 1009 08/14/09 3:51 PM Veteran Member |
Dude, thanks for fixing my mistake.
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Posts: 117 08/15/09 12:22 AM |
That was a very good and inspiring story. And yes it was very familiar to Morgan Burkhart's story. Nava has become a personal favorite of mine (other
than Charlie Zink), and I hope he can keep up the torrid pace he is at right now. Keep it up Daniel.
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Posts: 241 08/15/09 1:11 AM |
Nava is the anti-A-Rod. Great stuff right there.
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Posts: 446 09/09/09 10:10 AM |
What's his ceiling? Any chance he'll ever make it to the big league as a fourth outfielder?
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Posts: 237 09/10/09 8:58 AM |
The man is a hitting machine; and, from what I've read, not a bad defensive player. But the clock is ticking and his window of opportunity is small.
I'd guess he begins the '10 campaign in AA, unless he wows the FO in ST. Then its up to Pawtucket. From there, who knows? I know people who live in
Chico, CA and followed his IND League career. Spoke highly of his abilities and work effort. Hope he makes it all the way to Boston, though he's have to
push Reddick and Kalish to do it. DH material?
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Guidas |
Daniel Nava? | #17 | ||
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Posts: 1 10/21/09 12:14 PM |
New guy here - I looked at recent threads and didn't see one on this so apologies if it's been discussed. Does anyone know how the Red Sox organization
views Daniel Nava? Granted he was a little old for AA competition this year, but that should be balanced somewhat by the fact that the Eastern League is known
as a pitcher's league; that, and his path to AA/minors is less traditional. Meanwhile he had sick numbers and is reportedly an average to slightly above
average defender with a plus arm and good wheels. So do the Sox see him as a late bloomer who could actually contribute at the MLB level as a 4th OF or better,
or just an org guy? I've only seen him play 3 times, but I can't shake the hunch that this guy is a potential Dan Uggla-type story (with OBP
substituted for Uggla's K's & HRs).
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ancientsoxfogey |
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Posts: 4369 10/21/09 1:28 PM Veteran Member |
Welcome to SoxProspects, Guidas.
Nava was discussed in a thread not too long ago, but I think it was a more general thread, not one devoted to him. The discussion at that time was about Nava as an unheralded-when-he-came-into-the-system successor to Morgan Burkhart, another Indy Leaguer, and low draft choice Jeff Natale. Nava (1) is relatively old; (2) has offensive tools, to be sure; though he probably doesn't have enough power to be considered a major league level starting corner OF; and (3) and this is important, seems to have enough defensive tools and savvy to be envisioned as an OF in the majors, which neither of the other two ever really succeeded in showing. Certainly the idea of him being at least a 4th or 5th OF at the major league level is not all that farfetched. My take on Nava is, since he got a late start, the Sox should push him. There's nothing to lose; he's getting into his prime years, and he can either develop into a major leaguer in the nearer term or he probably never will. Start him in AAA in the spring and see if he continues the string of .900+ OPS he's been putting up in the minors. If he does, and if someone gets hurt or something, you never know ...... maybe he can get a cup of coffee in Boston sometime later in the year. |
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Posts: 152 10/21/09 2:12 PM Contributing Photographer |
For those who haven't seen him, here's a shot... He looks like a nice strong kid. I had thought he was taller, however he's listed on the seadogs site as 5'10" 200... 
"What sort of movie would Rudy have been if he had just stopped and given up after two rejections? |
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Posts: 1213 10/21/09 2:26 PM |
Mod Edit: Guidas, your topic has been incorporated into a previous thread from last month on Nava. Hopefully the information from the existing thread is
helpful.
Cheers! Lou
Madness is like gravity....all you need is a little push.
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