Sunday Rockpile: Blurg

by Rox Girl on Nov 23, 2008 12:51 PM MST in Rockpile Comment 3 comments

Once again, what I wanted to write and post by this morning is turning out to be a much more in depth project than I initially thought, so expect a post about what to expect from our left-handed starters in 2009 later tonight or early tomorrow, but for a preliminary discussion on the topic in the meantime, a common theme in KC threads about this week's Ramon Ramirez for Coco Crisp trade, was that the Royals basically got a steal by turning Jorge De La Rosa into Crisp with a year of effective relief in between. The point of any trade is to be better going forward, past performance quickly becomes irrelevant after the deal's been done, but here is what the three provided in 2008:

	W-L	ERA	WHIP	K	BB
2008 - Jorge De La Rosa	10-8	4.92	1.46	128	62

	AVG	OBP	SLG
2008 - Coco Crisp	.283	.344	.407

	W-L	ERA	WHIP	K	BB
2008 - Ramon Ramirez	3-2	2.64	1.24	70	31

Given that, who do you see as most valuable to their team in 2009?

Poll

Who will be the most valuable to their team in 2009?

Coco Crisp, Royals

16 votes

Ramon Ramirez, Red Sox

28 votes

Jorge De La Rosa, Rockies

77 votes

121 votes | Poll has closed

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Future value

I voted for De La Rosa based upon future value (2009 value as mentioned in the poll) rather than the value provided last season by the three players (when the two other players probably provided more value than JDLR did).

by MADness on Nov 23, 2008 1:02 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

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by AtkinsandTulofan on Nov 23, 2008 1:41 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

Ramirez

Has shown to be a strikeout artist, and 2007 just showed a bad case of the BABIP bug. The Red Sox got a solid reliever who can help bridge to Papelbon, and as I recall, can make spot starts as well.

I think Ramirez will have more value in the sense that the Red Sox will use Ramirez to go farther than the Rockies will with DLR.

Not to say that DLR won’t be valuable, I would far rather see him in the rotation than the pen or with another squad. I also see a bit of BH Kim in his performances. I don’t like that. But I think one way or another he is a solid addition to the team.

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by Andrew Martin on Nov 24, 2008 9:07 AM MST reply actions 0 recs