Escobar played in 145 games and got 598 PA's while struggling to keep his OPS over 600. Far from sporadic to say the least, he played 6 games a week. What's funny is, Macha may not have been Mr. Friendly, but he ran the team almost identically to Roenicke. Give him Marcum and Greinke, he wins just as much, despite laughable attempts to paint him as odd. He did a fine job keeping mediocre, injury plagued teams close to .500.