Sunday, February 22, 2004
For what it's worth, if I had any desire to grab a catcher in the third round, I'd pick Brown. I'd like to congratulate Jeff for snaking me twice in a row, even when it took him 48 hours to snatch McGowan out of my grasping fingers.
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I think an experiment gone horribly wrong has turned Randy into a hideous Billy Beane/Dusty Baker mutation.
Maybe he is just subscribing to the Dan O'Dowd plan. First it was the "pitching, pitching, and Andy Ashby" plan. Then it was the "My current baseball knowledge is vast...I can just count on it while I take a 3-year sabbatical and let Bocachica and Cammack develop" plan. Maybe after the "Let's trade Beckett and Vlad for veteran leadership" plan did not pan out he opened his mail, found an advanced copy of Moneyball and decided to give this newfangled sabre-toothedmetrics thingy a whirl. With that being said, am I alone in thinking Swisher and Jeremy Brown are "stretches" at this point of the rookie draft?
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Maybe he is just subscribing to the Dan O'Dowd plan. First it was the "pitching, pitching, and Andy Ashby" plan. Then it was the "My current baseball knowledge is vast...I can just count on it while I take a 3-year sabbatical and let Bocachica and Cammack develop" plan. Maybe after the "Let's trade Beckett and Vlad for veteran leadership" plan did not pan out he opened his mail, found an advanced copy of Moneyball and decided to give this newfangled sabre-toothedmetrics thingy a whirl. With that being said, am I alone in thinking Swisher and Jeremy Brown are "stretches" at this point of the rookie draft?
Saturday, February 21, 2004
Out with the old, in with the new?
Career records of Dancin' Homers pitchers traded this off-season
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Career records of Dancin' Homers pitchers traded this off-season
Name Yrs W-L IP K ERA
Brown 8 118-59 1557 1318 2.68 1 Cy Young, 1 Series MVP, 4 rings
Glavine 7 98-69 1373.2 783 3.34 1 Cy Young, 3 rings
Vazquez 4 53-40 738 639 3.71 2 rings
Two trade annoucements
In the AL, Ken trades A Rod, Damon and his first round pick to Slave for Schilling, Bobby Crosby, and Manny
In the NL, Ken trades his 6th round pick to Mike for Tom Glavine
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In the AL, Ken trades A Rod, Damon and his first round pick to Slave for Schilling, Bobby Crosby, and Manny
In the NL, Ken trades his 6th round pick to Mike for Tom Glavine
Monday, February 16, 2004
ARod has left the building...
To any and all:
The Cursed Bambinos are willing to hear all offers for the soon to be Yankee...he will not be given away, however all reasonable offers will be addressed. Interested? ksmith6724@sbcglobal.net
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To any and all:
The Cursed Bambinos are willing to hear all offers for the soon to be Yankee...he will not be given away, however all reasonable offers will be addressed. Interested? ksmith6724@sbcglobal.net
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
What is a Penny worth?
Trade today. Crooked K's get Pat "the Bat" Burrell
Dancin' Homers get Jeff "the Bag" Bagwell and Brad Penny
Burrell and Penny were swapped once before - 2/28/00 - as rookie leaguers
Burrell went from the Batsmen to the Homers and Penny went to the Batsmen.
Both Burrell and Penny were part of the first No Glory rookie draft.
Burrell stayed with the Homers until today. Penny was traded 3/11/2001 from
the Batsmen to the Gas House Gang along with Danny Graves for 2nd and 4th
round picks and Ken's 1st supplemental pick. Jeff used his picks to get
Felix Rodriguez, Benny Agbayani, and Chad Fox.
July 15 of 2001 Penny was traded again, with Travis Lee to the Batsmen from
the Gas House Gang for Sean Casey and the rookie rights to Mike Bynum.
I wrote, at the time, to Jeff: "Boy, you sure ripped off Ken Smith. That
trade's going to be remembered as one of the worst ever for him and best for
you. Did he know Casey got hurt Saturday? Did he know Casey's going to be on
another team soon, possibly in the AL? It's not like Casey is worth Penny
straight up, anyway, even if he was staying."
"Remembered as one of the worst"? I didn't even remember this myself and I
made the statement! I did some of that Rob Neyer Player A vs Player B stuff,
too, showing what a bad trade it was. Fascinating! It really came to
nothing, didn't it? We sure do get hot and bothered at the time, though,
don't we?
At any rate, the trading doesn't stop there for the guy who always turns up
like a bad penny. March 10 of 2002, the House of Gas sent Preston Wilson,
and his first (used on Robby Alomar) and second round (Brandon Duckworth)
picks back to Jeff for Jeff's 1st round pick (Roger Cedeno went in the first
round??), Brad Penny, John Smoltz, and Jose Uribe. That trade is worth
analyzing... I'll leave it for someone else.
Then I think actually *during* the 2003 draft, since he was on Ken's holds
but Lou's after the draft was done and I don't have an email record of it,
Penny was traded again, this time from the Gas House Gang to the Crooked
K's. But since I don't have a draft transcript, I don't know the details of
that one. Anyone remember?
Here are the dates of Penny's trades. It reads like a pickle play:
02/28/2000 Homers to Batsmen (rookie)
03/11/2001 Batsmen to Gang
07/15/2001 Gang to Batsmen
03/10/2002 Batsmen to Gang
03/21/2003 Gang to K's
02/04/2004 K's to Homers
Sorry to be so wordy, but I've been reading Bill James all evening!
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Trade today. Crooked K's get Pat "the Bat" Burrell
Dancin' Homers get Jeff "the Bag" Bagwell and Brad Penny
Burrell and Penny were swapped once before - 2/28/00 - as rookie leaguers
Burrell went from the Batsmen to the Homers and Penny went to the Batsmen.
Both Burrell and Penny were part of the first No Glory rookie draft.
Burrell stayed with the Homers until today. Penny was traded 3/11/2001 from
the Batsmen to the Gas House Gang along with Danny Graves for 2nd and 4th
round picks and Ken's 1st supplemental pick. Jeff used his picks to get
Felix Rodriguez, Benny Agbayani, and Chad Fox.
July 15 of 2001 Penny was traded again, with Travis Lee to the Batsmen from
the Gas House Gang for Sean Casey and the rookie rights to Mike Bynum.
I wrote, at the time, to Jeff: "Boy, you sure ripped off Ken Smith. That
trade's going to be remembered as one of the worst ever for him and best for
you. Did he know Casey got hurt Saturday? Did he know Casey's going to be on
another team soon, possibly in the AL? It's not like Casey is worth Penny
straight up, anyway, even if he was staying."
"Remembered as one of the worst"? I didn't even remember this myself and I
made the statement! I did some of that Rob Neyer Player A vs Player B stuff,
too, showing what a bad trade it was. Fascinating! It really came to
nothing, didn't it? We sure do get hot and bothered at the time, though,
don't we?
At any rate, the trading doesn't stop there for the guy who always turns up
like a bad penny. March 10 of 2002, the House of Gas sent Preston Wilson,
and his first (used on Robby Alomar) and second round (Brandon Duckworth)
picks back to Jeff for Jeff's 1st round pick (Roger Cedeno went in the first
round??), Brad Penny, John Smoltz, and Jose Uribe. That trade is worth
analyzing... I'll leave it for someone else.
Then I think actually *during* the 2003 draft, since he was on Ken's holds
but Lou's after the draft was done and I don't have an email record of it,
Penny was traded again, this time from the Gas House Gang to the Crooked
K's. But since I don't have a draft transcript, I don't know the details of
that one. Anyone remember?
Here are the dates of Penny's trades. It reads like a pickle play:
02/28/2000 Homers to Batsmen (rookie)
03/11/2001 Batsmen to Gang
07/15/2001 Gang to Batsmen
03/10/2002 Batsmen to Gang
03/21/2003 Gang to K's
02/04/2004 K's to Homers
Sorry to be so wordy, but I've been reading Bill James all evening!
