Sunday, June 11, 2006
Idle Speculation
The episode of Law and Order on right now has one of my favorite comedians, Jim Gaffigan, in a cameo as a plumber.
There's been a great deal of reports that the Cards have been trying to work out a trade for the Pirates' utility (C/1B/LF) player, Craig Wilson. I'm not convinced that Wilson's significantly better than anyone on our bench right now. It also strikes me as unusual that Walt would telegraph an intended move like this. The reports say that the Pirates want Reyes or Wainwright for Wilson, which would be badly overpaying. I'm thinking that this might be a good time to buy low on Oliver Perez, who's having his second awful season in a row with an ERA over 7 and a lousy K:BB ratio. Kip Wells will be coming off the 60-day DL in the next two or three weeks at which time the Pirates will have to remove someone from their rotation and from the 40-man roster. It would be awful nice of us to solve both those problems by trading one of our AA starters and a PTBNL for Perez. The Pirates could bring up their impressive lefty Tom Gorzelanny until Wells is done and keep the pitching pipeline going in their system while we gamble on what would either be a major bust or a left-handed power pitcher. Ideally, Perez would make it to AAA for some instructional work. If he would be unable to clear waivers, we'd have to option Johnson and put Perez in the bullpen. That'd also allow us to promote Blake Hawksworth to the AA rotation to get our own pitching pipeline back up to speed.
I'm looking forward to seeing the Cardinals chase Oliver early on Tuesday with Carpenter pitching in his second game back from the DL. If Perez still has his stuff in spite of his bad numbers, I'll have my fingers crossed that we can steal him sometime next week. You know--to smooth over ruffled feathers over all the horrible things said between Walt Jocketty and Dave Littlefield after asking Anthony Reyes for Craig Wilson was proposed.
Update: Here's an interesting idea: Mark Worrell for Victor Diaz... The Diaz profile at Baseball Prospectus makes him sound like an awful outfielder, though. They compare his defensive to Manny's. Updated later: That one was a pipe dream.
There's been a great deal of reports that the Cards have been trying to work out a trade for the Pirates' utility (C/1B/LF) player, Craig Wilson. I'm not convinced that Wilson's significantly better than anyone on our bench right now. It also strikes me as unusual that Walt would telegraph an intended move like this. The reports say that the Pirates want Reyes or Wainwright for Wilson, which would be badly overpaying. I'm thinking that this might be a good time to buy low on Oliver Perez, who's having his second awful season in a row with an ERA over 7 and a lousy K:BB ratio. Kip Wells will be coming off the 60-day DL in the next two or three weeks at which time the Pirates will have to remove someone from their rotation and from the 40-man roster. It would be awful nice of us to solve both those problems by trading one of our AA starters and a PTBNL for Perez. The Pirates could bring up their impressive lefty Tom Gorzelanny until Wells is done and keep the pitching pipeline going in their system while we gamble on what would either be a major bust or a left-handed power pitcher. Ideally, Perez would make it to AAA for some instructional work. If he would be unable to clear waivers, we'd have to option Johnson and put Perez in the bullpen. That'd also allow us to promote Blake Hawksworth to the AA rotation to get our own pitching pipeline back up to speed.
I'm looking forward to seeing the Cardinals chase Oliver early on Tuesday with Carpenter pitching in his second game back from the DL. If Perez still has his stuff in spite of his bad numbers, I'll have my fingers crossed that we can steal him sometime next week. You know--to smooth over ruffled feathers over all the horrible things said between Walt Jocketty and Dave Littlefield after asking Anthony Reyes for Craig Wilson was proposed.
Update: Here's an interesting idea: Mark Worrell for Victor Diaz... The Diaz profile at Baseball Prospectus makes him sound like an awful outfielder, though. They compare his defensive to Manny's. Updated later: That one was a pipe dream.
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