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Transaction Oracle — A Timely Look at Transactions as They Happen Thursday, December 08, 2005White Sox - Acquired MackowiakChicago White Sox - Acquired UT Rob Mackowiak from the Pittsburgh Pirates for P Damaso Marte.
This is a terrific trade for both teams. Marte’s a good reliever, but Mackowiak is one of the best supersubs around - he’s not much defensively, but he can fill in with his bat anywhere in a pinch. The bullpen still consists of some combination of Jenks, Cotts, Vizcaino, Hermansen, Politte, maybe Bajenaru, and the rotation odd-man-out unless someone else is traded. I don’t want Mackowiak as a starter, something the Pirates would try to do at times, but he won’t be a starter with the White Sox.
The Pirates on the other hand, have all sorts of guys without set positions, fumbling around without a plan, so the need for a player like Mackowiak is left. Marte’s a solid reliever most years and if the Pirates keep him, he’ll serve them well.
As a side note, the White Sox quietly sent Gio Gonzalez to the Phillies as the player to be named, which isn’t good. |
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1. More Dewey is Always Good Posted: December 08, 2005 at 11:11 PM (#1768616)No, but it was expected.
I still think the Thome deal will look bad in the long run, and maybe even before the end of 2006 if Thome gets hurt/struggles and/or Frank Thomas has a comeback season.
This deal I'm pretty blah about, like I said in the other thread on the subject.
One red light on Marte - he has a kind of funky delivery, and last season he started reporting neck/shoulder pain. This may or may not be a concern in the long run, but it's definitely something to keep an eye on for now.
Given that the other known Brewer on the block is Russ Branyan, and the Brewers are looking for a lefty reliever, and the Pirates a 3B.... you can figure out what they were probably talking about.
Whether anything occurs is a different story...
Seriously? I'm having trouble seeing how he's really any better than John Mabry, and I don't exactly consider Mabry one of the "best supersubs around."
That said, I'd still rather have Marte. I'm really surprised that KW couldn't get more for him.
But the Sox didn't need a couple of pretty good prospects for Marte. They needed a left-handed third baseman and there aren't many of those lying around. Personally, I'd rather have had Burroughs since he's just coming into whatever peak he's going to have. That said, there is nothing really wrong with Macko. He's got about two or three years of variable performance left on his career and he fills the role that the Sox needed.
Sometimes I get the sense around here that we don't always put trades in the proper context and instead try to simply measure them in an abstract "I got 20 WARP from this trade and you only got 12 WARP, so, I won" kind of way.
That leaves Crede as the only arb-eligible player left.
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