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Or trade Justin Duchscherer for Luiz Vizcaino. Or Aaron Harang for Randy Velarde.
I think the moral is don't let any pitcher go ever.
I doubt they move Young, as he's pretty much Derek Jeter southwest. No matter what evidence exists to the contrary, they probably think he's a great defender.
A poor defense and an extreme hitters park make building a pitching staff a very difficult task.
Would it be cruel to mention that Adam Eaton would be available for a bucket of sunflower seeds, and the Phils would eat 7 of the 8 million dollars owed him next year?
Thinking about it for a moment, you could wait 'til the Phils cut him late next Spring Training when the miracle to turn Eaton into someone serviceable does not happen and get him for the minimum and get to enjoy the sunflower seeds yourself.
Couldn't they just move Byrd to CF and Hamilton to RF for a quick boost?
However, Young has earned the ability to keep playing short until such time as there is a worthy replacement. Arias ain't it. Andrus might be it, but he's not ready yet.
Mike knows his Rangers' baseball (ESPECIALLY the minor leagues), but in this case he needs to understand that the quickest route to success is breaking the bank for Sabathia or (more likely) Sheets.
Would the Rangers be better with Young playing 3B and an Adam Everett type playing SS? I don't know that anyone knows for sure. Of course, I always thought the sabermetric argument involved playing hitters as far left on the defensive spectrum as their talents would allow...
That's an outdated sabermetric argument. What they should do is play the best combination of offense + defense, regardless of whether it leans toward offense or defense. It might be that the best option the Rangers have is to bludgeon their opponents and not worry about pitching, like the Raffy/Pudge/JuanGone Rangers did. I don't know the answer.
If they want to fix the pitching though, Young moving to an easier position would be a step in the right direction. If his defense at short is poor enough to be an obstacle to improvement and they leave him there because he's "earned the right to stay there" then there's no reason to worry about the Rangers contending anytime soon.
In fairness to #9, that's not what he said (though I have no idea what "earned the ability" means :-) but more importantly he made it clear that he should stay at SS until they have a "worthy replacement."
As you yourself would say, as long as Young provides the best combo of offense and defense at SS, he should be the SS for the Rangers. If the other SS the Rangers have are all TPJ's in waiting ...
It means I need more sleep...or thin out the blood in my caffeine stream...
It's generally accepted wisdom around here that Showalter was the one pushing to trade Chris Young. Most Ranger fans thought Danks was going to be good, just not quite this soon...and had McCarthy doing what Danks is doing now in a Ranger uniform. As for Galarraga, well...Jason Jennings was the type of low-risk, high-upside signing that I wanted the Rangers to make just in case they caught lightning in the bottle. You have to give Daniels credit for acquiring him in the trade with the Nationals in the first place.
Patience is a ##### sometimes...
Ya learn something new every day...
Correct on Jennings--a worthwhile flyer that didn't work out. The question was who to bump off the 40 man roster. Hey, based on what I knew I would have kept Tejeda too but then again nobody's paying me to evaluate pitchers.
It's called leprosy.
Close, but I'd say that Young should stay at shortstop as long as him at short and whoever at 3rd is the best combination for the team. To pick an extreme example, not that this applies to Young, but Albert Pujols would provide a better combination of offense + defense at shortstop for the Cards. That does not mean he should be the shortstop.
It might be in the team's best interests to lean in the favor of defense at a few key positions anyway. A poor defense not only costs your pitchers runs, it makes them throw deeper into innings. It brings in the bullpen earlier, and in some cases it will wear down your bullpen over the course of the season.
EDIT: and Ricky Nolasco yesterday. Seems like a real bumper crop.
I don't think it really is that compelling. It's true - the best way to get good pitching is either to draft the guys or trade for them when they're very young. This is because established starting pitching generally never hits the free agent market. Teams lock those guys up. This off-season really will be different. I don't think you can look at those high price free agents in that article and come to the conclusion that any of them looked remotely like as good a chance for success as Sabathia does right now. Looking only at the successful pitchers to evaluate how to find successful pitchers ignores all the guys who have been drafted and/or traded for as minor leaguers who flamed out. The flame-out rate of pitchers drafted, even in the first few rounds, is worse than that even for the free agent signees here.
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