Thursday, May 09, 2013
ESPN: Simon: Andrelton Simmons makes all the plays
(espn.go.com)
Entering Wednesday, Simmons had played 680 innings in his major league career and the Baseball Info Solutions (BIS) numbers have him with 30 defensive runs saved. He had 19 in 426 innings last season and already has a major-league best 11 in 254 innings in 2013.
For a little perspective, that’s an incredible number for what amounts to less than half a season’s worth of play. No shortstop has had 30 defensive runs saved in a full season since Troy Tulowitzki had 31 in 2007.
Simmons has been ...
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< 1 2 3 4 5 6 >Even if everything that's been reported is true, and Dempster is being a jerk about this (which indeed seems pretty likely), I still don't agree that either the front office or the fans should react by directing petty spite his way. It's just not the way to treat people - it's unprofessional for the front office to do it and classless of the fans.
I think Houston has done really well for itself rebuilding the farm - I've liked all the deals the new regime has made and while I think they still lack a lot of blue chip talent, they've accumulated an absolute ton of interesting lottery tickets, useful future pieces, etc.
The last year and half have been almost like a Mogul/OOTP rebuild.
How good this trade is for Houston depends on how much of Wandy's contract they're eating, I think. If they're eating a large chunk of it I don't think it's a great trade for them.
Not sure I love it for the Pirates, either, as Grossman is a guy they're pretty likely to miss in a couple years.
@jonmorosi: Sources believe #Cubs would consider a Ryan Dempster offer built around #Dodgers prospect Allen Webster.
Discuss.
Do you know what would be great? Cubs trade Paul Maholm to the Pirates.
I assume Owens is going to report directly to Houston, yes?
Crispix: Kip Wells is probably available if the Pirates want to get the band back together.
Twitter says AAA.
(Don't know about the rest of you guys but I've tired of waiting for a thread to be posted to talk about the Wandy trade, and now I'm going to bed.)
Oh, also, Ryan Roberts goes from one 1998 expansion team to the other one, in exchange for 2B prospect Tyler Bortnick, who just turned 25 and is currently hitting .253/.352/.385 with the Montgomery Biscuits.
On the one hand, the Illustrated Man is hitting terribly this year. On the other hand, he plays 2B and 3B and the Rays are filling those positions with Will Rhymes and Sean Rodriguez.
Edit: This post was totally disorganized originally.
In exchange for Tyler Bortnick is what I believe you tried to say there.
I love Tyler Bortnick, not in the "he will be a major leaguer" sense but just in that I remember seeing him play in college alot and I really like how he plays the game.
EDIT: Ooops, you fixed it and added Bortnick. My bad.
Its funny when a guy who wasn't a basestealing fiend in college turns into one in pro ball. It isn't like Coastal was anti-basestealing, they let Scott Woodward and current minor league basestealing monster Rico Noel run at will, but Bortnick didn't run all that much and wasn't especially good when he did run, but he has now stolen 66 bases in 73 tries in the last season and a half as a pro.
Good Q, the school itself put an emphasis on athletics starting in the mid-2000s, probably in part to give themselves an identity and brand after their messy split with the U of South Carolina system. They didn't have a football program til 2003, and yet their first two football recruiting classes featured five future NFL players (!!!). Overall they have 7 NFL players in an 8 year history as a I-AA/FCS football program, pretty nuts.
As for baseball, they have recruited well nationally but I'm not exactly sure how. You'd think a public school in SC would focus on picking up the ample talent that SEC and ACC schools didn't recruit from GA, FL, NC, SC, DC and the Tidewater but, while Coastal has drawn good players from their local area, many of their stars have been from farther off regions like Indiana, Oklahoma and more northern spots on the eastern seaboard. Coastal has also been successful at getting quality D-I transfers. I bet it don't hurt to sell kids on the appeal of playing baseball near Myrtle Beach.
They've developed arms well and supplemented that a good mix of college masher types and speedy scrappers. Good coaching.
Exactly - In what way is Dempster being the 'bad' guy here? Even if he said Atlanta was his #2 choice, the team had no right to just assume he hadn't changed his mind without talking to him first.
And didn't Roy Oswalt try to manipulate the Astros to get where he wanted to go, before finally agreeing to go to Philadelphia? I think he was just short of 5-10 status at the time, but maybe he had some limited no trade clause.
Excuse me, were you talking to me? Oh, I see, my son is also named Bortnick.
That is all I have to contribute.
That is, if you're a fan of the Marlins.
I see you Internet dweebs are just too ####### dumb to grasp Towers brilliant "Sell Low and Buy Some Random Non Prospect While Really ####### High" strategy.
And Tyler may be old for hs league and not posses any of those super shiny "statistics" you nerds are so in love with that you should just marry them. But what you kids cant appreciate is that Tyler is a veteran, he's experienced, and Kevin Towers knows the value of experienced veterans. They know how to play the game, get to the bus on time, dress in the proper home or road jersey, how to hold a bat properly during team pictures, and how to oil the starters glove for him while hes batting. All that crap Upton still hasn't learned.
So you will have to excuse me, I have to go and don't have time to hand out all the wedgies you pocket protector wearing, glasses taped together, moms basement dwelling NERDDDDSSSS!!!!! really deserve.
Kevin just called, and wants to smoke a few more bowls with me before finalizing the Upton for Delmon Young swap.
Jesus Christ, the Marlins got robbed.
That is ####### crazy. The Marlins couldn't get anything better than that?
You're unfamiliar with how Jeff Loria operates, aren't you?
Time to check stubhub to see about tix to Demp's next home start so I can show my appreciation for his decision against the backdrop of 6 weeks of dishonesty.
At least Gould as well... I think I'd also want something like Joc Pederson, too or maybe something like Gorman Erickson. In fact, with Hanley now a Dodger -- might as well ask for Castellanos, too, and let him man 3B for the rest of the year.
Nothing in the Dodgers system outside of Lee looks like a front-end starter -- both Webster and Gould are mid-rotation arms at best. In fact, there's really not much of anything in the Dodgers system that excites me from a prospect perspective. Alfredo Silverio is toolsy, but toolsy OFers that have no idea of the strikezone are a dime a dozen (he's not that toolsy). The only bat in the Dodgers system that I really like is Castellanos and he's already 25.
I have confidence that Thed can get a better deal than the flotsam joke of a haul that Hendry got for Lilly -- but especially if Lee is a no go, there's just not much on LA's farm that makes for a very exciting package.
This would have to be an Astros style "quantity" trade -- a couple lottery tickets and a couple more solid citizens who aren't at all likely to be worth hanging onto very deep into arbitration.
Although I suppose we shouldn't be too shocked. Dempster's merely taken his own fate in his hands and forced the Cubs to trade him to the team he'd rather play on.
Well, we can't save the 6 million - but I'd be damned if I let the friggin' Dodgers get a discount out of this. If the package isn't significant -- and like I said, given there's not a lot exciting in the Dodgers system, a reasonable package probably need to run 3 or 4 players deep -- then screw it...
Keep pitching for a last place team going nowhere -- and I hope FA comp screws your market value this offseason... or go ahead, accept arb and we'll do this again next summer, Ryan.
Same here. You know who reminded me of, actually? A faster, better glove, less pop version of Ryan Roberts (who was a stud for UT-Arlington).
It might just be a ploy to keep the Dodgers from overplaying their hand.
So what did the Cubs do wrong here again?
This all seems very weird.
Dared to trade a 35 yo SP -- but a 'good guy' -- with 10/5 rights from a team clearly in rebuilding mode?
Not let Dempster play GM for a day?
Keep him up-to-date regarding the teams at the top of his list?
Perhaps, and I know this is farfetched, he changed his mind about Atlanta. You know, the place that he was being traded to.
Non-responsive to the question...
What's the point of the question? No one has specifically stated Chicago did anything wrong. I said that if I'm a player with no-trade rights, I would want to make my decision on waiving them before I read on MLB.com that a deal has been made (because there is no deal until I waive them). That clearly didn't happen here.
It's possible the Cubs did everything right. But the fact is this deal was reported before Dempster had made a final decision, and he's not happy about it. And I can't blame him.
But come on, though. I know he has a right to change his mind, but let's call a spade a spade here - if he led the Cubs to believe that he was willing to accept a trade when he actually wasn't, then he was acting in bad faith. The time to be really sure about it was before he gave the Cubs the go-ahead to shop him around, not after they had pursued a course of action over a several-week period on the assumption that he'd stick to his word.
Now, to be clear, I'm not on board with zonk's desire to make Dempster's life miserable or with his dark fantasies of shooting hostages. But "changing his mind" seems like a pretty douchey move at this stage of the proceedings.
Unless he was lying about his willingness to accept a trade to Atlanta, then he wasn't acting in bad faith. Either that or you don't really believe that he has a right to change his mind.
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