greenback44 wrote:His stock wasn't that high a year ago when he was traded, along with two halfway-decent prospects, for two months of Holliday.
Keith Law had him at #20 coming into this season; Baseball America had him at #27. And even in spite of his bad season, he still made their midseason top 50 list (I have no idea how far he dropped, because they stopped numbering after 25 on that list).
Edit: and Baseball America had him at #40 coming into the 2009 year.
Edit2: maybe this is just something going over my head. Maybe you're suggesting people downplayed his value after we traded him, in a sour grapey fashion.
Magneto2.0 wrote:Then again, based off the last two days, those things can apparently get you Ace pitchers..
That's the thing. The market is greatly favoring buyers who are willing to take on salary. The Cardinals are in that boat. If they can't find an upgrade under these circumstances, they didn't do a very good job of finding a match.
Fat Strat wrote:Add in the higher likelihood that Wallace becomes Overbay and the fact that Gose has a lot of work to do to become Bourne, it's not even remotely an even trade.
I'm not really interested in debating about who's more valuable between Overbay and Bourn, so I'll just quote this and say that its the most important part; regardless of what you project them to become, Wallace is a much safer bet to reach that plateau. And so on that we definitely agree.
I know you weren't. I'm just so bored sitting here waiting for something to happen (and yes, I know the deadline isn't until Saturday) that I was willing to look up the comparable values of Lyle Overbay and Michael Bourne.
Magneto2.0 wrote:Then again, based off the last two days, those things can apparently get you Ace pitchers..
That's the thing. The market is greatly favoring buyers who are willing to take on salary. The Cardinals are in that boat. If they can't find an upgrade under these circumstances, they didn't do a very good job of finding a match.
greenback44 wrote:His stock wasn't that high a year ago when he was traded, along with two halfway-decent prospects, for two months of Holliday.
Keith Law had him at #20 coming into this season; Baseball America had him at #27. And even in spite of his bad season, he still made their midseason top 50 list (I have no idea how far he dropped, because they stopped numbering after 25 on that list).
Edit: and Baseball America had him at #40 coming into the 2009 year.
Edit2: maybe this is just something going over my head. Maybe you're suggesting people downplayed his value after we traded him, in a sour grapey fashion.
I'm not thinking anything that complicated. IMO Wallace has been overrated because his lack of defensive value was largely ignored; if you're putting together a list of top prospects, it's hard for you to look bad if you fill it up with guys with high OPSs. But even if the lists have Wallace appropriately ranked, the Victor Wang-type research has shown that all but the most highly rated prospects (top 25, maybe even top 10) are basically penny stocks.
FWIW BA's Ben Badler claims Wallace has been dealing with a wrist problem in 2010.
I can only think of one prospect that's been traded two times, Chris Carter of the A's. Traded from the White Sox to the D'backs(for Quentin), then from the D'backs to the A's(for Haren).
Magneto2.0 wrote:Then again, based off the last two days, those things can apparently get you Ace pitchers..
That's the thing. The market is greatly favoring buyers who are willing to take on salary. The Cardinals are in that boat. If they can't find an upgrade under these circumstances, they didn't do a very good job of finding a match.
ding ding ding ding
just like when we didnt fill our need in the pen a few years back... Mo did a lot of 'hindsighting' in that offseason.
