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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Sunday, August 31, 2008
The D-backs acquired infielder David Eckstein from the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday in exchange for Minor League pitcher Chad Beck.
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Eckstein has played five games at second base this season. He batted .277 (72-for-260) in 76 games this season for the Blue Jays with 27 runs scored, 18 doubles, a home run and 22 RBIs.
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Beck, 23, started the season in South Bend, going 2-0 with a 2.04 ERA (four earned runs in 17 2/3 innings) over seven games, holding opponents to a .186 average (13-for-70) with three walks and 19 strikeouts. Promoted to Visalia on May 2, appearing in his first 10 games as a reliever, going 1-0 with a save and a 1.37 ERA (four earned runs in 16 1/3 innings). As a starter for the Oaks, he went 4-5 with a 4.46 ERA (39 earned runs in 78 2/3 innings) with 14 walks and 65 strikeouts over 13 games.
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1. JoeHova Posted: August 31, 2008 at 10:55 PM (#2924024)Oh, yeah... I forgot about that.
Since Weeks trained/trains with Eckstein in the off-season, that fact always gave him an opportunity to bring up Eckstein often if desired, too.
Hes got a solid K/BB and he pitches better in the pen, so maybe he will have a future in relief but it seems more like he was just a body that was thrown in to provide something on the other end of a veteran-dump trade
Further confirmation that I made the right decision in May to perma-mute the broadcast.
Is Eckstein likely to be much of a 2B? Regardless of his performance, I'll be stunned if he isn't another Byrnes/Clark-type that the organization hangs onto way, way past the sell-by date.
The Blue Jays were wise to trade Eck for anything. A SS worse than Johnny Mac, older, overrated, and welded to the bench? To have kept him would have been negligent, even before you account for the seemingly hordes of other scrappy INF types the Blue Jays have around like Tim Horton's franchises in the Maritimes.
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