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2007 - .298/.378/.488/.866 2008 - .288/.427/.494/.921 2009 (AA-AAA) - .297/.423/.516/.939 2010 - .220/.334/.434/.768 2011 - .261/.390/.500/.890 He was a 20-year-old and had barely played professional ball before he was suspended, and assuming he's been clean following his suspension, I don't think his numbers since then can be considered artificial, and they look good. I would have high expectations based on them for his first season with regular playing time. In fact I do. I look forward to seeing what he can do for us this year. |
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Chris Young has had some success in MLB. At least we got Javy Vazquez for him. Beckham has been underwhelming, but not a total bust. We'll see what Tyler Flowers does this year. Of course, there's also Alexei and Viciedo from Cuba. That seems to be the one lone bright spot of getting talent from Latin America. Quote:
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Great post dub. |
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Waiting for someone to convince me that those failures haven't hurt the franchise.
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I surely won't convince anyone but just for the sake of conversation everyone who was in bold (minus Gonzales) did contribute to the team throughout the years and a lot of the ones that weren't in bold were used to acquire more valuable pieces (ie Reed in the deal for Garcia). Not great but I'd venture to say its probably comparable to a lot of teams..maybe even good teams. |
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Given that he only played in 91 career games and had 257 career PA, racking up nearly -2 in WAR is a pretty impressive display of badness. That would translate into roughly a -4.5 WAR over the course of a full season and generally speaking, 4-5 WAR (in the positive direction) is reserved for All-Star caliber players. Moral of the story: Andy Gonzalez sucks |
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Futhermore, lack of prospects hurts the ability to acquire MLB talent. For a baseball GM, Players are essentially a Zero-Sum Game. When you have nothing of value, you can rarely pick up anything of value. It is one thing to use the farm to trade for proven talent. Its another to ignore it completely.
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It is the pitchers with 2-3 major league pitches, out pitches, and hitters who have projectable power etc. Guys who have the potential to impact the game, those are what carry value. If you notice, we haven't had that major trade over the last couple of years. We have had all these retread pick ups like Youklis and they have not been getting us to the playoffs. We have nothing other teams really covet anymore. That has to change. |
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what's the latest on Mitchell? he still has a lot of fans down this way.
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