Outfielders since May 1st, and Yadi for good measure:

      G  AB  R  H  2B  3B  HR  RBI  BB  K   BA  OBP  SLG
Juan 34 139 14 39   8   3   6    7   6 21 .281 .308 .511
Jim  26  92 12 26   4   0   2   16  15 14 .283 .373 .391
John 17  74 12 21   4   0   0    5   6 15 .284 .337 .338
Yadi 24  90  8 24   6   0   2   14  10  3 .267 .356 .400

So, uh, Yadier–would you mind hitting sort of like that over the rest of the season? And maybe the next ten years? That would be great. I was never on the J-Rod-should-start/Encarnacion-should-be-sent-to-a-work-camp bandwagon, so I can’t really jump off of it, but this puts me much more firmly on the free-John-Gall-and-platoon-him-with-Dr.-Nickname bandwagon. I mean, I knew J-Rod was wanting for power at the moment, but those are Quilvio Veras numbers. And not even the good Quilvio Veras numbers! (Juan’s putting up Alfonso-Soriano-in-Texas numbers, while Edmonds is Yankees Chuck Knoblauch without the speed. It’s not good when you can compare each outfielder to a second baseman.)

Of course, there’s another way of dealing with the outfield problem, and if MLBRumors is at all accurate on this report… well, wow. Another prime example of Jock selling high on a prospect in exchange for a player alienated by the hometown crowd and victimized by circumstance as of late. (Were he GM of some other team at the moment I think he’d be looking at Isringhausen and Encarnacion.) Now, there’s one problem: this trade makes absolutely no sense from the perspective of the Mets, unless Omar Minaya is suffering from some as-yet-undiagnosed dementia. Diaz isn’t a great player, but he’s young, he’s cheap, he’s got a career major league OPS over .800, and most importantly he isn’t a minor league closer who relies on a strange delivery and a low-90s fastball. I like Worrell–he’s pitched much better than recent minor league closers like Gene Stechschulte and Scotty Layfield–but the Cardinals would make out like bandits in this deal.