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Transaction Oracle— A Timely Look at Transactions as They Happen
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Red Sox - Acquired Cruz Jr.
Boston Red Sox - Acquired OF Jose Cruz Jr. from the Arizona Diamondbacks for IF Kenny Perez and P Kyle Bono
Well, this is certainly about a million times better than the puzzling Shoppach-Stern for Larry Bigbie trade that made the rounds yesterday. The Red Sox give up two non-prospects instead of a good catching prospect and a usuable 4th outfielder for a player that’s better than the aforementioned Bigbie. Whoever thought up the original trade should probably be given a pink slip Monday morning and be thankful that they escaped without being eviscerated. The Diamondbacks get nothing, but then, they didn’t expect to when they DFAed Cruz.
It’s nice to see the Red Sox realize that they could improve themselves without giving away their prospects for a mediocre outfielder or helping the Devil Rays take all the Met prospects.
2005 ZiPS Projection - Jose Cruz Jr.
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Period AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG
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Actual ‘05 202 23 43 9 0 12 28 42 54 0 .213 .347 .436
Rest ‘05 153 25 39 9 1 8 26 27 33 2 .255 .367 .484
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Total ‘05
Dan Szymborski
Posted: July 31, 2005 at 04:54 PM | 29 comment(s)
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1. Joshemy Posted: July 31, 2005 at 05:05 PM (#1512637)Bono isn't a non-prospect, but he is a MR prospect doing well in single-A. That is about a 1/2 step above a non-prospect.
Mabe they'll keep Manny around as a defensive replacement.
Mabe they'll keep Manny around as a defensive replacement."
Except that he has rated incredibly well as a corner outfielder (like +20 or something) and the Sox are probably getting him to platoon with Trot and spot Manny.
Eric from Los Angeles asks:
In a July editon of Ask BA Seattle, Los Angeles, and Anaheim were ranked as the organizations with the best depth at SS. Does Boston now enter into the conversation with these other organizations?
A:
Jim Callis: Yes, with the four shortstops I've mentioned (Ramirez, Pedroia, Soto, Lara) and sleeper Kenny Perez, they'd have to be included in that group.
Apparently Perez woke up. :-)
He's probably not going to be much of a hitter, so his prospect status depends on whether or not he's an asset with the glove.
Because, it just isn't so!
He did, in 2003 with the Giants. And IIRC, he made a horrible drop of a fly ball in the NLDS against the Marlins that allowed them to clinch the series.
Also, do we have Cora and Graffanino next year too?
How do you'll think he;ll handle it? better than trot? Was his gold glove legit? has he just lost a step? or was he never that good.
Cosidering there's a 70 point difference between his UZR in RF and CF (altohugh didn't he have a ton of assist last year in RF?), I'm willing to write him off as a guy who UZR doesn't 'get'.
Cora is signed at $1.4 million through next year.
that is, as long as the red sox don't offer him arb.
He's f'in hitting .285/.328/.375 in a repeat of AA as a 23-year-old, after hitting a robust .280/.323/.420 last year in AA. What more do you want before you think he's a non-prospect?
Whether that's a prospect or not is semantics. Either way, he's not a particularly valuable piece.
The question is really not one of their historically being this big a gap between Cruz in CF and Cruz in RF. The question is, how badly has Cruz's injury effected his performance this year? The answer, it would appear, is quite significantly.
I've also seen him play a lot in Portland, and I completely agree with this assessment.
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