Hunter Pence
May 5, 2008 – In the first trade of the season the Yuma Scorpions sent the under achieving Rickie Weeks to Texas for a more solid professional player in Brian Roberts and it cost them their starting centerfield Hunter Pence. Weeks was taken in the draft with the understanding that he will grow into a good player soon but when Weeks started the season with only 5 hits in 58 at-bats and the teams patience quickly ran out so when the Yuma GM Bob Watson started to look for a solution he remembered that Brian Roberts lost the job in Texas to Ian Kinsler and only had 10 at-bats this season and would be a great player to plug in and give the team a true leadoff hitter. In Texas Bill Hall had been starting in centerfield and doing very little at the plate going for .228 average and is less than good in centerfield so when Watson called it didn’t take long to ask for Hunter Pence who is a little better in centerfield but is hitting .283 and 6 homeruns on the season in 27 games. The final player in the trade was Michael Bourn who will be the defensive outfielder in Yuma. On the day that Texas agrees to send Brian Roberts to Yuma Ian Kinsler got hurt and has been put on the 15 day DL so Weeks might get some playing time earlier then later.
