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Originally Posted by Vris
If I say I'm disappointed your gunning for it all this year, that would be stupid. If I said I was happy you traded away a complete stud who could be your rotation's anchor for the next 15 years, that wouuld be stupid too.
Hmm.
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I feel the same way about the trade, you know, and I'm the one who actually made it.
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Originally Posted by ifspuds
It's the Anderson, Gallo and Wing (mostly Anderson) for Cordero, Miller and Wikipedia that I'm not so sure about.
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Right. This being OOTP,
Scarborough for
Podsednik just wouldn't fly on its own - I guess it was too perfect of a trade for the AI to be satisfied.
But that's the part of the trade that makes me consider
self-immolation, actually. I am fine with selling high on
Mike Gallo, whatever the return may be - and my gut tells me that
Brian Anderson is being sold high, as well. Maybe it's a miscalculation, but look at the boy's minor league numbers:
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YR/LEVEL AB AVG OBP SLG BB/K
2004 (A) 463 .270 .346 .454 57/122
2004 (AA) 63 .190 .257 .222 6/13
2005 (AA) 182 .346 .374 .604 8/24
2005 (AAA) 291 .275 .326 .423 22/56
2006 (AAA) 355 .307 .370 .479 37/74
2007 (AAA) 36 .444 .487 .528 1/2
I am interested to know how you interpret them. He has some gaudy numbers in short stints, but I also see a guy without a significant strength - all things considered, average batting average, average plate discipline, average power, and not a ton of room between his head and the ceiling considering he is already 25 years old. And "
And"(erson) did not seem capable of handling center field, so you are left praising the guy for his .284 batting average and 34 RBI.
Dmitri Young played left field for the godawful
Pale Hose last season, whacked hits at a .310 rate and slugged .448, mostly thanks to 40 doubles. If we can have a player like that in left field on a
lousy team, who is to say we can't replace this
Anderson guy next season, after
Podsednik moves on? Certainly not me.
I also like
Wade Miller as much as I can like any 8-15 pitcher.
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YR IP H BB K ERA
2004 204.2 166 62 200 3.34
2005 203.1 207 71 195 4.56
2006 207.1 203 64 176 4.64
2007 62.0 56 18 41 3.63
Usually ain't my type of guy, but I think it's silly to dismiss him based on one (OK, two) less than stellar seasons as
Milwaukee did.
Author's Note: League-average ERA was just a hair over four in the National League last year, and not much higher than that in '05, so those numbers really aren't very good. Doesn't faze me. Miller still hits the mid-90's on the radar gun more than just once a month and has a good habit of keeping his hard slider down in the zone. We have run into the occasional pitching problem over the last year-point-five because many of the men pitching for the
Pale Hose:
1. didn't hit the mid-90's on the radar gun...like,
ever. (
Jon Rauch, Nate Cornejo, Marc Kaiser, Felix Diaz)
2. didn't have the good habit of keeping the ball
in the strike zone, let alone
down in the strike zone (
Rick Ankiel, Jorge DePaula, Fabio Castro, Rick Hummel)
P.S. This year,
Miller's won-lost is 5-4, so he's not really an 8-15 man anymore.
Maybe
Chris Scarborough would have bucked the above trend; certainly the boy could bring the cheddar. But his control has led to some triple-A walk rates that are just OK; that's also been a major factor in a proliferation of home runs allowed that's a little less than OK. It's a mistake to part with a kid who probably had a double-digit strikeout rate in
T-ball, but what the hey. Only live once, only have the chance at the 200
7 AL Central crown once. That's basically why I didn't bother picking up a young whippersnapper in the deal; if I got up the cojones to make this deal, may as well
make the deal. No half-assing it. If we're going for this division, then let's roll.
So here we are, rolling on. No looking back.