DrCrawdad
12-05-2002, 10:43 PM
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As snow falls, baseball's in the air
Some things to remember: Jim Thome's worth the money, the Phillies haven't won anything yet, and the Cubs and White Sox are still the Cubs and White Sox.
Full Article (http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2002/12/06/hotstove/index.html)
...In the Foulke-Koch trade, the A's got out of having to go through the arbitration process with Koch, which will send his salary through the roof, and they got a guy who, despite a misleadingly high earned-run average last year, is a better pitcher than Koch. The Sox will end up having to overpay Koch because he picks up a lot of saves, the second most meaningless statistic in American sports (after hockey assists), and saves impress arbitrators. Foulke will be a free agent after next season, so the A's will have their choice of whether they want to pay him a lot.
It's important to remember, when evaluating deals involving the Chicago teams, that you don't get to be the Cubs and White Sox by making shrewd trades...
As snow falls, baseball's in the air
Some things to remember: Jim Thome's worth the money, the Phillies haven't won anything yet, and the Cubs and White Sox are still the Cubs and White Sox.
Full Article (http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2002/12/06/hotstove/index.html)
...In the Foulke-Koch trade, the A's got out of having to go through the arbitration process with Koch, which will send his salary through the roof, and they got a guy who, despite a misleadingly high earned-run average last year, is a better pitcher than Koch. The Sox will end up having to overpay Koch because he picks up a lot of saves, the second most meaningless statistic in American sports (after hockey assists), and saves impress arbitrators. Foulke will be a free agent after next season, so the A's will have their choice of whether they want to pay him a lot.
It's important to remember, when evaluating deals involving the Chicago teams, that you don't get to be the Cubs and White Sox by making shrewd trades...