Fortunate Injury?
John Thomson was scratched from his start today because of "elbow tenderness". There's been a lot of buzz in the last 48 hours about a possible trade of Thomson for Craig Wilson, and this injury might forestall such a deal.
Which would be a good thing, to my way of thinking. Even if keeping Thomson means that Brian Jordan makes the opening day roster, I find that preferable to a trade for Wilson. Nothing against Craig (whom I find myself picking up in fantasy leagues year after year, to little effect), but he's not the type of player who ages well, even if he were healthy, which he almost always is not. Plus, what does he give us that we don't already have? Diaz is looking good as the fourth OF, and KJ is again waiting in the wings. Jurries and Jordan are having a spirited competition for the backup 1B slot. And Pete Orr is our emergency catcher. And again, we need all the rotation depth we can get.
During the game vs the Dodgers the other day, Jeff Torborg (who is proving a VAST improvement over the Wimperoo, btw) made an interesting point. When a veteran and a rookie battle for a bench spot during spring training, a team will often opt for the veteran -- and not just because he's a "known quantity". If the veteran flops, you have the rookie ready to bring up from the minors. But if you go with the rookie initially, you've lost the veteran and have no backup plan. This makes a lot of sense to me.
Which would be a good thing, to my way of thinking. Even if keeping Thomson means that Brian Jordan makes the opening day roster, I find that preferable to a trade for Wilson. Nothing against Craig (whom I find myself picking up in fantasy leagues year after year, to little effect), but he's not the type of player who ages well, even if he were healthy, which he almost always is not. Plus, what does he give us that we don't already have? Diaz is looking good as the fourth OF, and KJ is again waiting in the wings. Jurries and Jordan are having a spirited competition for the backup 1B slot. And Pete Orr is our emergency catcher. And again, we need all the rotation depth we can get.
During the game vs the Dodgers the other day, Jeff Torborg (who is proving a VAST improvement over the Wimperoo, btw) made an interesting point. When a veteran and a rookie battle for a bench spot during spring training, a team will often opt for the veteran -- and not just because he's a "known quantity". If the veteran flops, you have the rookie ready to bring up from the minors. But if you go with the rookie initially, you've lost the veteran and have no backup plan. This makes a lot of sense to me.
posted by Sam Bass | 10:28 PM
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M. Norman believes that Craig Wilson may be the original Mr. Jesus, but I would only favot an expanded deal that would include Gonzalez coming to us and maybe Lerew going to the P-rats?
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