Crawfish Boxes refers to veteran leaders to help teams in transition to younger rosters:
Leadership on a team isn't something we talk about a lot on TCB, but veteran leaders are important in transition periods, and sadly Miguel Tejada would be an excellent person to have around for that purpose.
Yeah, a guy who lied to Congress is someone I'd pick as a leader to look up to.
Blum and Erstad have the years and the scars, but not sure if they will be around in 2010.
At this point, unless Kaz Matsui's translator is ready to start slamming lockers and tossing helmets for him, I'd say Lance Berkman is the veteran leader to look up to.
Don't look to Carlos Lee for leadership... a hundred million bucks only buys you a man who jogs to first and dreams of riding his ranch instead of roaming left field.
Is there a mentor/leader on the pitching staff? (Based on Crawfish's low standards, Clemens would be the perfect man, eh. Write a huge check with a bunch of 2's, squeeze his ass into a uniform, fill his locker with clean needles in a brown paper bag marked "CANDY" and sign a deal that lets him start in October after giving him starts all the way from Little League Tee Ball to the Japanese Seniors League.)
Scratch Mike Hampton, eh. Captain Sandbag strikes again.
Without leadership in the owner's box, it doesn't mean squat what the people under him do or say, eh.