Comments on: Catchers are not good at hitting

By: Seals

Seals — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:12:44 +0000

Actually, Joe, I hope that’s the case.

Doesn’t Yadi usually make an appearance or 10 in the PR Winter League, even when he says he’s not going to?

Any time Anderson can get around Oquendo and/or any of the catching instruction down there is good.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:58:39 +0000

>>Anderson related but not discussion related. He’ll be playing in the PR Winter League.<<

Probably for Jose Oquendo’s team. Perhaps JMo is advocating Anderson for 2009 backup catcher on the big club and TLR wants Jose to take a closer look at the kid this winter? I love reading broader implications into the smallest news of the offseason.

By: erik

erik — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:26:40 +0000

Anderson related but not discussion related. He’ll be playing in the PR Winter League.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:53:30 +0000

It is instructive to go through the exercise of seeing who might be a reasonable trade partner for Anderson, if the decision is to use him as a trading chip rather than heir apparent to Yadi. These teams had no catcher this year who had at least 200 at-bats and an OPS of .700 or better (data from BP), therefore could use a semi-decent offensive prospect at the position:
Boston(!), Cincinnati, Detroit (OK, they “had” one, but traded him away), Houston, Milwaukee, NY Yankees, San Diego, Seattle, Washington.
By and large, these are not teams one really wants to do business with. Most have nearly bankrupt minor league systems with little to offer in trade, and most are also bad teams, or at least teams getting worse rather than better. It’s also interesting to see three NL Central teams on this list; we don’t really want to help them improve, do we? Nothing here argues for a trade.

This strikes me as a case where a Bird in the hand is better than two on the hot stove, to mix metaphors a bit.

By: VolsnCards5

VolsnCards5 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:18:56 +0000

i see anderson as a chance to swing a deal for a proven major league talent without having to trade rasmus…maybe we are all too high on anderson, but i feel like we could package him along with some outfield talent for a player that could really help the ball club over the next couple of years

maybe hold on to him and let him raise his value until the trade deadline next season

either way, i don’t see anderson as getting enough ABs to be a real value to the cardinals over the next couple of years, wo trading him makes more sense to ms

By: FlimtotheFlam

FlimtotheFlam — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:12:45 +0000

I like the idea of the Cardinal’s hanging on to Anderson. He is only 21 years old and already playing in AAA. His value is really going to go up. I think if they really wanted to get max value they would let him play another year at AAA than bring him up to be Yadi’s backup next year. So he could get better behind the diamond.