Twins - Signed Lamb and Everett
Minnesota Twins - Signed 1B-"3B"
Mike Lamb to a 2-year contract; signed SS
Adam Everett to 1-year contract.
Doing Twins entries is hard because if I'm not quick, Aaron Gleeman will beat me to it. He beat me on the Everett transaction and I have to agree with his points. The difference between weak-hitting Everett and weak-hitting Punto is that there's really strong evidence that Everett's glove is of an elite level and he's at a hair on the harder side of the defensive spectrum. Using linear weighted zone rating, or LWZR (aka, the Dial Method), I get Everett at 59 runs better than average defensively over the last 4 years. I have Punto at 7 runs better it what combines to slightly less than a single season so while he's apparently a good defensive 2B, he hasn't played there a lot and the chances of him whipping out an Everettish +20 seems seem fairly long. I gave Everett an EX on my DMB disk for 2008, one of only three of the 22 teams I've projected (the others are Vizquel and Tulowitzki).
In other words, Everett's a good enough defensive player that he's a reasonable stopgap at SS, especially when the prospect of playing Casilla stares you in the face. A long-term contract wouldn't be a good idea, though.
Lamb's kind of the opposite. He's a decent enough hitter, but he's quite lousy at 3rd, probably in the -10 to -15 range. It will still be an upgrade over Punto last year, however. As I said, the Twins could improve a lot by simply finding non-terrible players for their holes and both Lamb and Everett fit that description.
2008 ZiPS Projection - Mike Lamb
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AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG OPS+
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Projection 334 48 88 15 2 10 45 32 59 0 .263 .329 .410 95
2009? 331 48 87 15 2 9 44 32 58 0 .263 .329 .402 93
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Opt. (15%) 374 65 112 22 3 14 62 41 57 1 .299 .370 .487 125
Pes. (15%) 267 33 65 9 1 6 31 22 54 0 .243 .302 .352 73
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Top Offensive Comps: Andy High, Bernie Allen
2008 ZiPS Projection - Adam Everett
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AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG OPS+
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Projection 361 37 85 20 1 4 36 21 66 8 .235 .284 .330 63
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Opt. (15%) 431 52 109 28 3 7 49 32 73 13 .253 .311 .381 83
Pes. (15%) 334 28 69 16 0 3 28 15 70 5 .207 .245 .281 39
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Top Offensive Comps: Hal Rhyne, Bobby Wine
Dan Szymborski
Posted: December 15, 2007 at 03:55 PM |
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Speaking of which, is there going to be a David Eckstein thread here? I wonder how bad his D is, if its really regressed or was an aberration (though I think his O will help, in conjunction with McDonald's defense leveraged in).
Is he supposed to go on DL for the season?
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