Yankees - Acquired Abreu
New York Yankees - Acquired OF Bobby Abreu and P Corey Lidle from the Philadelphia Phillies for SS C.J. Henry, P Matt Smith, P Carlos Monasterios, and C Jesus Sanchez.
Looking at this trade, I’m thinking that maybe I should have traded for Abreu as I think the various trinkets and googaws in the trunk of my car could form the basis of a better package for the Phillies.
OK, perhaps this is a little mean, even if my Rand McNally Road Atlas, my leather porkpie drinkin’ hat, and my leather conditioner are all fine, quality products. C.J. Henry’s the biggest name here and while scouts have liked his upside, the fact remains that there’s a very long voyage from hitting 237/326/350 in the Sally League to playing in the majors. There’s still plenty of time, however, but I generally prefer my low level prospects to be hitting. I’m hitching my Henry wagon instead to the Pirate SS in the Venezuelan Summer League, the awesomely named Henry Henry, who’s hitting 384/514/500. I’d be more excited if “C.J.” were in fact “F.J.” which we couldn’t find when we were going down the alphabet a couple years ago.
Next on the list is Matt Smith. He’s earned a look after two solid seasons since switching to relief. He’s got a pretty good injury history, but he could be a decent reliever for the Phils, though not the building block you’d want for someone as good as Abreu. Then again, the Phils and Philadelphia residents don’t seem to generally appreciated that Abreu was that great a player, usually complaining about his defense. I’m guessing that Matt Smith’s ability level is a little bit worse than the 0.00 ERA he has in 12 major league innings and he probably can’t maintain a .138 BABIP, especially without having Derek Jeter~! behind him on the field.
The other two are more speculative, low level prospects that haven’t been particularly heralded. Based on play, Monasterios is the more interest prospect, having pitched very well in the GCL.
What does this trade do for the Yankees? Duh. They have Bobby Abreu’s bat in the outfield and will hope that Lidle isn’t too horrible in the rotation the rest of the way. While I don’t root for the Yankees, I do hope that Abreu has super offensive games when Mike Mussina is pitching because I really want Moose to win 20 this year.
Dan Szymborski
Posted: July 30, 2006 at 10:27 PM |
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A logical extension is that if Paris Hilton buys a $120 million home and finds out it has termites, we don't applaud her for hiring an exterminator, we laugh at her for not getting the house inspected beforehand.
No one is dying in a frickin' fire here.
JC, here is a Phillie phan's reaction to Abreu's winning the GG, and reader comments. The guy's just not a good defender in anyone's mind.
No, but they gave up an excellent pitcher for him, which is a pretty big opportunity cost, if not a big monetary cost.
Does Mel Stottlemyre still have a job, and if so, why?
The Yankees also had no reasonable depth at the following positions: 3B, C
and don't forget it's possible that the yankee front office believed Melky could step in and play above replacement level.
Is there a team in the majors with a good backup catcher? Maybe Minn because Redmond is having one of his good years. that's about it. Otherwise it's go into the club of proven veteran back up catchers.
Did you mean to write this? Because I like it.
When your starting 3B has played 160 games per year in his career, you don't need a back-up.
Not true. They need to figure out who they will play at 3B in the playoffs.
when your starting left fielder has never missed a game in his mlb career ...
No. He's a slightly above replacement level player (1.0 WARP per B Pro). He's got an OPS+ of 95 which isn't horrible, but he does give back a fair amount of his value on defense.
Yeah, he's not very good anymore, but the fans love him. You may not understand it as a Red Sox fan, but you don't have to kick every player out and trash them on the way out of town. You can keep a guy around if the fans like him and if he has some uses. Bernie still hits lefties pretty well. If he doesn't have to play much OF, as part of a DH platoon with a decent lefty bat he's ok.
Actualkly eric -your wrong. It would be after helping him out saying what a bone head he was for falling asleep with a butt in his hand.
The whole scrappy Yankees argument gets a little tiresome. Yes, they played most of the year without Shef and Matsui and have lost significant time from Cano, but their division rival has played most of the year without their #3, #4, #5 and #6 starters and #2 reliever plus a good bit of time without their starting CF and 4th outfielder.
Now that 'tek and Nixon have gone down I'd say the Sox have been hit significantly harder by the injury bug this year than the Yanks.
Not counting Dotel, whom the Yankees picked up injured ala Lieber a couple of years ago, NY has lost the following players in order of impact to the team:
Sheffield 82+ days on DL
Matsui 84+
Pavano 124+
Cano 37+
Sturtze 82+
Small 29
Crosby 27
Rasner 61+
After Cano the dropoff in talent lost is such that the effect on the team is pretty negligible. The Sox haven't lost anyone of the calibre of Shef & Matsui (at least until this week) but have had a greater culmulative loss:
Wells 118
Clement 50+
Crisp 49
Foulke 53+
Wakefield 17+
Pena 50
Timlin 17
DiNardo 73+
Riske 47
Varitek 3+
Nixon 4+
Holtz 40 (then released)
Choi 34 (DFA'ed w/o yet making the Big Club)
I dunno, you might ask those Red Sox pitchers.
But what if it's a really good exterminator? At a reasonable cost?
#1) This is just assinine...! ;) ... An inspection is required by lenders before the financing will be approved. Who's got the cash to put down on a $120M home...? Besides, a $120M home is NOT a home at all, it's a friggin Castle...!
#2) That depends. If it's that big, the costs will not be all that reasonable. And the treatment options would be different based on whether it's subterrainian termites, dampwood termites or drywood termites. (Unprecidented size being beside the point.) Something that massive would be built to withstand the ravages of heavy termite infestation over a significant period of time, based on centuries, not years. So it would not use wood as supporting structure, only as design detail.
Roaches would probably be a bigger problem.
Your friendly neighborhood pest control professional... :) ...
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Not sure I understand what you're asking...!???
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