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Transaction Oracle — A Timely Look at Transactions as They Happen Tuesday, December 09, 2003Seattle MarinersSigned P Eddie Guardado to a 3-year, $13 million contract. Anyone want to make an over/under on how long it is until Sasaki starts getting anonymous “fan mail” from Mariners officials that suggest he’d be happier back in Japan? If that doesn’t work, Guardado will take over Arthurly’s alpha-lefty job with the Mariners. Speaking of Rhodes, I think he’s going to bounce back well.
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18.0 innings vs. lefties
As for Belisle, that is a very steep price for what may be half a year of a middle reliever. Often when the Braves trade a young pitcher, they know something about that young pitcher that we all don't, so perhaps this one works out. That is, if it is in fact true that Belisle is the PTBNL, I haven't seen any true confirmation of that.
I just saw it today. Pity. I always liked Belise (though I'm not sure why exactly).
Whoooooo!
One question, couldn't the M's have waited to see if the Royals would offer arbitration. If the Royals didn't, it wouldn't have cost a draft pick. This is like the 3rd year in a row that the M's have lost their first round draft pick.
Bad move for a decent player, the kind of player I usually root for.
For KC, Ken Harvey and Dee Brown have to be happy.
When Raul played in Seattle before, they gave him plenty of chances to succeed in various roles and against different types of pitchers. He never seemed to be all that comfortable here in the cold confines, and I thought they gave him about 150 PAs more than they ever needed to know he was not a starter.
In his defense, he may have learned soemthing about hitting major league he didn't know before that will stick. And this team needs at least one big (or two so-so) LH poppers. Olerud will never be that guy, so if you get one that's readily available, where are you gonna find one for either LF or 3b? I think they took the easy way out in the decision. Why the $$ were so high is a complete enigma. Perhaps they will luck out for a year and he'll perform the way he did on the road in 2003.
Oracle...I think you were a little too kind.
When Raul played in Seattle before, they gave him plenty of chances to succeed in various roles and against different types of pitchers. He never seemed to be all that comfortable here in the cold confines, and I thought they gave him about 150 PAs more than they ever needed to know he was not a starter.
In his defense, he may have learned soemthing about hitting major league he didn't know before that will stick. And this team needs at least one big (or two so-so) LH poppers. Olerud will never be that guy, so if you get one that's readily available, where are you gonna find one for either LF or 3b? I think they took the easy way out in the decision. Why the $$ were so high is a complete enigma. Perhaps they will luck out for a year and he'll perform the way he did on the road in 2003.
Oracle...I think you were a little too kind.
AFTER adjusting the league OPS for the player's park effects -- i.e. an 800 OPS in Dodgers Stadium (pitchers park) will yield a much higher OPS+ than an 800 OPS in Coors Field (extreme hitters park).
As hinted above, it's hardly a perfect measure, but it's quick and easy and right there at baseball-reference.com and it at least adjusts for league and park context. Other fancier measures will (1) try to do a better job of measuring production than simple OPS and (2) adjust for park, league, AND position.
No it's not. A number of metrics already factor it in.
BTW, if yer just getting into SABR stuff, isn't it a little presumptuous to call yourself moneyball?
What a snide comment.
What's Cameron likely to get on the market or if they offer him arb?
It's really a one-year deal, but has two (apparently) mutual option years attached to it...
And if Ryan could somehow get Jones into the Dirty South or San Diego in exchange for Giles or Peavy or Barfield, (obviously that wouldn't be the whole deal) even better.
I'd love to see Ryan trade Jones and some youngsters to ATL for M Giles, but that seems really unlikely unless he overpays. They need another starter, a lefty in the pen, and a veteran catcher to counsel young Mr Mauer. That's the bare minimum.
Of course all I read about in thepaper today is the need for a closer with experience (to replace Ed G who seemed to do OK FOR A GUY WHO HAD NO SUCH EXPERIENCE). The latest name is Roberto Hernandez, which is saving me the trouble of eating lunch but does nothing for the team in '04.
The St Paul paper's big focus today (other than the panic over not having a REAL closer) was the unheathy stew now being served as clubhouse chemistry in MIN: Eddie was the heart and soul, Hawk was the man, how can we consider parting with Jacque, oh my gosh. Terry Ryan, to his credit, replyed something like "we were lucky to have so much stability for so long, it's nice, but we're trying to win here."
I make no bones about being replacement-level, do I? I've been arguing with my friends for so long that the Twins have cleared enough payroll (before Stewart, or after trading JJ) that they had the financial resources to go after a Miguel Tejada or (shudder) Vlad. I thought someone was agreeing with me, so I didn't read past the "Miguel". Whoops. I haven't even considered Miguel Batista, and I must say, I like it.
Hasn't Jim Souhan been ridiculed off this board yet? I hold him in higher esteem than Sid, but not by much. What is wrong with signing Art Rhodes the take Guardado's lefty spot and then go with a bullpen by committee (well, not really a committee, but what Boston tried to do last year...)? They would have 4 relievers who project to be closer/setup types. Two righties, Joe Nathan and Juan Rincon, and two lefties, Rhodes and J.C. Romero. Really, at this point in their careers it is hard to say which two would be the best for next year (isn't it always with pitchers?), and Nathan and Rincon has recent histories of pitching multi-inning outings, while Romero can go nearly every day. This assumes that Rincon (and Nathan) stay in the pen rather than the rotation, and that the Twins sign at least Rhodes for next year's pen.
Matthew Thompson-- Do you really think S.D. would give up both Gautreau and Tankersly for JJ? Seems a little steep for one year of a platoon outfielder. Then again, you can just as easily describe him as a young, righty-mashing CF, too, i guess.
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