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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, November 07, 20222022 World Series- How Dusty Baker’s Astros beat the Phillies
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Posted: November 07, 2022 at 05:54 AM | 6 comment(s)
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1. Walt Davis Posted: November 07, 2022 at 06:15 PM (#6104720)I feel like saying something obscene to Dusty here who has no justification for throwing Willson under teh bus. I will though just assume he's pulling a line of BS to justify his gut. I'm not aware of Contreras ever complaining during his tenure. What I do know, cuz I have the internet, is that Contreras has never started more than 123 games in a season and that was back in 2018. Some of that is injury but mostly not. He's a C, he knows he's not going to start every day. This year with the Cubs, he was only about a half-time C and started at DH about 2 of his 3 days off -- i.e. he started about 5 games a week (and missed most of Sept).
Now the writer's claim that DH had been a problem for the Astros?? No, LF had been a problem requiring Yordan to spend some time out there -- Contreras might be as good a LF as Yordan or could have given them a better bat at 1B on his days off.
Anyway, if Dusty meant "I only wanted a C to start 20 of the last 60 games because I love Martin Maldonado" then I wish he'd said so. And I'd agree there's no reason to get Contreras for such a limited role, Willson might well not have been too happy about it (who could blame him) and it's certainly not worth giving up Urquidy for. Now, give him 20 starts at C and 20-30 starts across DH/LF/1B and that would have been not far off his Cubs usage this year and maybe worth Urquidy (probably not, I think Urquidy is pretty good). If Dusty was going to refuse to use Contreras in that way, then that's Dusty's mistake. Contreras would have made it all moot missing most of Sept.
Instead (I assume), the Astros dealt Jose Siri and 3 minor-leaguers for Trey Mancini, Christian Vazquez and a minor-leaguer (via Tampa). Mancini got 45 starts in the last 57 games, presumably as a reward for not being a player that would complain about not starting every day in his FA year. Mancini put up -0.6 WAR for them and went 1 for 21 in the postseason. Vazquez got 24 starts (1 at DH) and put up -0.1 WAR but a decent 4-17 (3 starts) with a few RBI in the postseason. As I said, Contreras would have missed most of Sept so wouldn't have been a big help either but was back before the year ended so might have given a postseason boost. Finally, Urquidy was blah in 9 late season starts and 3 innings of garbage time in G3 of the WS.
In the end, a nothing burger for 2022 no matter which way they went but still 3 years of Urquidy so Dusty the GM wins this one.
So yes, he can go eat a bag of poop.
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