Meet Your Beavers - Chris Sabo 2.0

Let's just say that Sabo is the polite version of Chris' nicknames. With a last name like Smuda and a group of sophomoric Beavers, you can guess where the names go as the beer flows. But Sabo is a good name for our thirdbaseman. Where it lacks in originality (let's see, his name is Chris and he plays 3rd base...hmmm), it scores high in accuracy. Actually, I don't know if that is true. I really can't recall much about Chris Sabo except for his rec-specs and that he had some pop in his bat. I don't recall if he was known for his glove work.

Our Sabo is. He has shored up the left side of the infield with impressive plays week in and week out. It's a good thing too, putting Rake at third has its drawbacks defensively and putting Kid at third left shortstop as a question mark.

Sabo is only in his second year with the Beavers. He saw two championships in his first two leagues with the team. I guess you could say that defense IS the key. But, that is not where this Sabo stops. At the time of publishing this blog Sabo is also leading the team in average. OK, OK his average has dropped about 100 points over the last few weeks, but still, leading the team by a healthy margin.

Sabo, I don't know if it is hour commute to softball that gets you ready to play, or getting pissed at those Beavers trying to get other variations of Smuda to stick as your nickname that fires you up. What ever it is, don't let it stop. As deep as Dupper plays, we can't afford to have grounders going through 3rd anymore.