Trot Gets Dissed By Steve Phillips. Advantage: Trot.

Steve Phillips, the man so smart he somehow GM'd the Mets into last place two years in a row despite having the second highest payroll in baseball, was on TV last night discussing his players to avoid for the upcoming 2006 fantasy season. Instead of saying obvious high-risk guys like Alfonso Soriano or Barry Bonds, he spends his time criticizing the likes of Mike Lowell and Tom's Official Hero, Christopher Trotman Nixon. Now, here are my issues.

1. No crap you shouldn't draft Mike Lowell. He had a horrible season last year and, so far, has shown no signs of coming back to his previous form. No one's going to waste a pick on him when you can just play wait-and-see during the season. You know who else you shouldn't draft? Mo Vaughn. Or Joe DiMaggio. However, I'm banking on a comeback season for Ty Cobb.

2. As much as it pains me to say it, not too many people will be drafting Trot either. He's been having way too many health issues recently to warrant anything above a late round pick. Hell, even I passed him up for some guy named Matt Murton. However, this wasn't the reasoning Phillips had for putting Trot on his bad list. He said you have to worry that there might be a "platoon situation" with Wily Mo Pena and how Trot will react to it. Hmmm... how would Trot play in a platoon. I wonder... Hey! I know! Maybe you could look to the previous three years when he was IN A FREAKING PLATOON with the likes of Jay Payton and Gabe Kapler.

I digress.