New York Mets Updated

Acquired 2B Roberto Alomar, P Mike Bacsik and OF Danny Peoples for OF Matt Lawton, OF Alex Escobar, P Jerrod Riggan and two players to be named later.

Billy Traber is one of the players to be named later

Given the moves already made by the Mets, this was probably one of the better ideas to fill the newly created hole.  It sure seems, however, that the Mets did a ton of shuffling to get rid of Robin Ventura.  Bacsik, Peoples, and Riggan are pretty much throw-ins with Escobar, of course, being the key prospect here with Bacsik maybe being interesting.  Escobar’s been plenty hyped and unlike Corey Patterson, hasn’t been downright horrible.  Still, he’s looking a lot like Ryan Thompson performance-wise and while he does have tremendous tools that could someday come back to haunt him like Jermaine Dye, it’s a pretty big if and Alomar’s a pretty nice player to have on your team, which also takes the sting away from losing Lawton. 

This trade is much harder to justify from the Indians’ perspective.  They take one hole and fill it to a degree less than the new hole was previously filled.  If that makes any sense.

Escobar, Alex ? MLE Record
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Year  PO  Age Team   Lv   AB   R    H  2B 3B  HR RBI  BB   SO  SB   BA    OBP   SLG  
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2000  OF  21  BING   AA  413  65  102  21  4  11  47  42  120  15  .248  .325  .397

2001  OF  22  NORF   AAA 386  50   95  19  3  10  44  31  153  11  .246  .303  .388

Since I posted this, Billy Traber was named as one of the players to be named later, which helps the Indians a bit since Traber’s a real prospect and not some guy like Jorge Velandia, to throw out a completely random name.  Still, Traber’s a pitching prospect and he hasn’t thrown out one of those freaky good Roy Oswalt seasons, so I still give the edge to the Mets.

Traber, Billy - Rough MLE Record
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Year   Age Team   Lv    W   L    G  GS      IP    H   ER   HR   BB   SO    ERA
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2001   21  BING   AA    3   4    8   8    42.2   53   26    4   14   43   5.48 

2001   21  NORF   AAA   1   0    1   1     7.0    6    1    0    0    0   1.29

Bacsik, Mike - Rough MLE Record
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Year   Age Team   Lv    W   L    G  GS      IP    H   ER   HR   BB   SO    ERA
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1999   21  AKRON  AA    6  16   26  26   149.1  197  132   33   54   80   7.95

2000   22  BUFF   AAA   1   2    5   5    29.0   35   24    9    8    9   7.36

2000   22  AKRON  AA    3   4   11  11    71.1   73   33    4   17   42   4.21

2001   23  AKRON  AA    1   1    4   4    27.1   25   10    3    3   18   3.44

2001   24  BUFF   AAA   8   9   21  20   121.1  132   67   16   28   77   4.98