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An Arizona-Cubs first round is going to be fun to watch.
The D backs haven't won anything. They just increased their chances, thats all
Don't get me wrong...tonight was great. And the Dodgers look like crap and like they have quit. But these things can turn quickly and I don't want to get too excited just yet.
The Dodgers were tied with the Diamondbacks in August and had an excellent chance of winning the division. That justifies the deals they made.
The Dodgers are probably still the best team in the West because of the Manny trade. But what is that worth? A quick first round playoff loss to the Cubs? The Dodger rotation doesn't have any team trembling.
If Colletti were smarter, and had job security, he would have not have sold the farm to make a run at being the worst playoff team with virtually nil chance of advancing to the World Series. He would have been a seller (Pierre anyone?) and positioned a stronger team for a run next year.
Of course if Colletti were smarter, he wouldn't have $28M a year of outfielders sitting on his bench or the DL.
Well, the Diamondbacks would have to cross the plate themselves. And as the saying goes, they couldn't score in a whorehouse with a fistful of fifties.
What do they have to sell that wouldn't negatively affect the team next year? To my eyes, the only trading chip they have is Derek Lowe - and the return on non-Sabathia starters this year hasn't been great. Pierre isn't going to bring in anything, even if they pay his whole contract.
5.5 runs per game in 16 games with the Big Donkey, including scoring only 8 runs during three games in death valley, er, Petco.
Since being freed of the restraints of Dodgers' management, LaRoche is hitting 129/228/257 with a OPS+ of 29.
Whatever else the Dodgers may have done wrong, not playing LaRoche and dealing him for a couple of months of Manny isn't one of them.
But wouldn't paying his whole contract to get him out of town be worth it?
JBay in BOS: 115 PA, .327/.365/.529, .308 EQA, 9.2 VORP, 4 HR, 27 RBI
With a grand total of 79 plate appearances. Freedom indeed.
Nothing should hold him in 2009, right?
Yea, it was worth trading four+ years of LaRoche to finish in 2nd place because 79 bad MLB AB's spells doom for a prospect who had a .400+ OBP and .500+ SLG his last three minor league seasons.
And a total of 148 in the majors this year. And 191 more in the minors. And throughout them, he has looked like a guy with a great batting eye, who can hit it out IF it's grooved to him, but without the power to hit anything hard if it's not grooved. Exactly as many of us feared he'd look this year, after the major thumb injury in spring training. Hopefully by next year he'll regain his power, but it's not that unusual for hitters to have trouble hitting for power after major hand injuries. And most major league pitchers have enough control to be able to throw strikes without grooving very many pitches.
The trade was a bad long term move for the Dodgers, but the best available evidence we have (339 plate appearances in the majors and minors this season) is that LaRoche isn't a major league hitter this year, probably because of the spring training injury. It's not that his hitting has suffered because he's been jerked around in terms of consistent playing time - he's been jerked around because he hasn't hit.
As I joked on another thread, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
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