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Transaction Oracle— A Timely Look at Transactions as They Happen
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Royals - Signed Olivo
Kansas City Royals - Signed C Miguel Olivo to a 1-year contract with an option for 2009.
Terms are undisclosed, but I'm guessing it's a fairly inexpensive contract, as I'm giving Moore the benefit of the doubt and assuming that Olivo's the backup catcher, which is something the Royals probably wouldn't be interested in paying through the nose for. The Royals could do far worse for a backup catcher and if you look at the catching depth in the upper levels of the system, they would have. A lot of teams, with a reasonable defensive starting catcher, would probably do better with a player like Adam Melhuse or Tom Wilson were years ago, but with Greinke and Bannister and eventually, Hochevar and some others, the Royals might be smarter to have a good defensive plan B behind Buck.
2008 ZiPS Projection - Miguel Olivo
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AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG OPS+ RAR DR WMV ($M)
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Projection 410 50 102 20 2 13 58 15 96 5 .249 .281 .402 76 4 3 $1.75
2009? 405 48 100 19 1 12 57 13 97 4 .247 .277 .388 72 1 2 $1.28
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Opt. (15%) 441 64 121 25 4 17 68 21 94 8 .274 .316 .465 101 20 5
Pes. (15%) 362 37 81 15 1 10 42 9 94 3 .224 .246 .354 55 -7 0
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Top Offensive Comps: Jim Hegan, Chris Widger
Dan Szymborski
Posted: December 27, 2007 at 12:34 PM | 10 comment(s)
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Then it made me think of the "Dear Jackass" letter from the "Breakin' the Wand" essay in the '88 Abstract.
People, I beg of you, if you don't like what Dan does, for God's sake just go and ##### and whine elsewhere.
Sorry to have ruined your morning though, JLAC. I'll go ahead and #### off, I guess.
Now we'll never see a TO on the Hamilton trade.
Nobody Beats The Widge!
Having seen him play, this is decidedly untrue.
However, Olivo's projection is a perfectly respectable line for a backup catcher, and the Royals could have done a lot worse.
Yep. Both of us.
And playing Olivo at third base!
Kinda surprised there weren't more teams after Olivo. I'd rather have him than say Paul LoDuca or Jason Kendall.
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