Yanks Cut Melky, Add Ed Reed!

Only kidding. But here is an interesting story about Ed Reed. Apparently he thinks he could play baseball, give a team some good defense, base running, and pinch hitting. I'm sure right now it's all just some chatter, nothing too serious. However, after watching a little of Ed Reed the past few games it's hard to argue against the fact that he could help out a team, maybe. Often times in football they describe the safeties as playing center field, just picking off errant passes (not even errant in Reed's case), and nobody does that better than Ed Reed.

You don't necessarily have to be the best athlete in the world to excel at baseball, but if all the best athletes played baseball we'd have some remarkable players that we wouldn't know about I bet. It's no secret that the MLB has virtually no black players in the league. They choose to play other sports, and that's not necessarily a terrible thing, but baseball could do more to show its sport off to millions of kids who choose basketball or football. Some strides have been made with clinics being introduced in inner cities, but most the effort is centered on latin players. Everyone knows about the issue so let's hope in the future more kids realize the awesomeness that is baseball, because let's face it they'd be great players. If Ed Reed studies film to make insane jumps on passes no QB thought he'd be around, who's to say he wouldn't study hitters tendencies and make remarkable jumps on the ball in center field? Hand-eye coordination is a crucial part of any sport, but it's pretty damn vital in baseball. It's no given that an amazing athlete will be able to pick up a bat and rake. But thoughts of LeBron ripping homers and throwing darts in the outfield, or Michael Vick skipping football to try his hand somewhere on the diamond are pretty intriguing.

With that said, there are baseball players who could have played football. Todd Helton QB'd at Tennessee before Peyton, Joe Mauer passed up a scholarship to play at FSU, Adam Dunn could have played at Texas, and we all know Kyle Farnsworth is the best tackler on the planet. So maybe it does go both ways, but I'd definitely like to see Mr Reed try his hand in center, he can't be worse than Melky last year, right?