Kotsay traded

[BSN07]

Kotsay Traded To Braves For Devine

UPDATE, 1-12-08 at 5:01pm: According to ESPN's Buster Olney, an agreement is in place for the A's to send Kotsay to the Braves for reliever Joey Devine. The A's will also eat $5.325MM of Kotsay's '08 salary, leaving the Braves on the hook for only $2MM. Essentially Billy Beane bought Devine.

 

Its worth the risk for ATL. The only lose a MR prospect, and only have to pay 2M for a season of Kotsay. Downside is with Kotsays injury history, ATL will be lucky to get a full season out of him. But maybe he puts up a big yr before he hits FA.

[riverside sluggers]

Kotsay will be a decent stop gap for the Braves

 

The top candidates for a Coco Crisp deal are Minnesota, Oakland and San Diego

[Cocos Disciples]

I hate it for Atlanta. Kotsay is okay, and Devine has a huge upside. He could be very valuable and I bet they could have dealt less.

[DUSTINMOHR4LIFE]

Great deal for A's.

[26 to 6]

A's made out well here, except for that nice fat portion of Kotsay's salary that they're consuming off of the Braves' plate. Kotsay makes sense for Atlanta for the short-term, and despite giving up Devine, considering how little they have to pay him it's worth the risk.

[Jayhawk Bill]

The top candidates for a Coco Crisp deal are Minnesota' date=' Oakland and San Diego[/quote']

 

San Diego?

 

I missed that one somehow. Coco Crisp would rock in PETCO: he'd lose no power, he doesn't use the wall in Fenway effectively as a hitter anyway, and he'd fit into an NL offense very well. I just don't know what the Padres would offer.

 

Sheer speculation: there was a rumor in December regarding Crisp and Lugo for Orlando Cabrera; there was a rumor last winter linking Boston to Khalil Greene. While Greene's .257 27 HR 89 RBI looks flashy, the .254/.291/.468 batting line looks less good, his glove is below-average, he's due for a big arb award for those home runs and he's a free agent after 2009. Six fixed-cost years from Crisp and Lugo are worth more than two arb-eligible years from Greene...San Diego and Boston both might make that trade.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Sheer speculation: there was a rumor in December regarding Crisp and Lugo for Orlando Cabrera; there was a rumor last winter linking Boston to Khalil Greene. While Greene's .257 27 HR 89 RBI looks flashy' date=' the .254/.291/.468 batting line looks less good, his glove is below-average, he's due for a big arb award for those home runs and he's a free agent after 2009. Six fixed-cost years from Crisp and Lugo are worth more than two arb-eligible years from Greene...San Diego and Boston both might make that trade.[/quote']

 

More on Khalil Greene:

 

BP had a bit on Greene yesterday:

 

The park effect definitely shows up in Greene’s numbers. He hit a robust .288/.322/.519 on the road, just .216/.258/.412 at home. If you just double his road numbers, you get a shortstop with 58 doubles and 30 home runs. All told, there might not be a player in baseball today more hurt by his home park than Greene.

 

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7044

 

That's the kind of player a smart GM trades, especially if he can get both a starting SS and a starting CF in the deal.

 

Greene has a career split of .274/.318/.452 in road games at AL ballparks--that's really good for a shortstop. For contrast, Lugo hit .190/.241/.306 on the road last year, but his career line of .200/.333/.320 in PETCO is probably more valuable than Greene's because of the big difference in OBP. (His career interleague mark of .257/.342/.376 is, of course, much better than his PETCO stats.)

[MANNYHOF24]

More on Khalil Greene:

 

BP had a bit on Greene yesterday:

 

 

 

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7044

 

That's the kind of player a smart GM trades, especially if he can get both a starting SS and a starting CF in the deal.

 

Greene has a career split of .274/.318/.452 in road games at AL ballparks--that's really good for a shortstop. For contrast, Lugo hit .190/.241/.306 on the road last year, but his career line of .200/.333/.320 in PETCO is probably more valuable than Greene's because of the big difference in OBP. (His career interleague mark of .257/.342/.376 is, of course, much better than his PETCO stats.)

 

Would you do this trade? I almost think I would. It appears that Ellsbury is the real deal in CF, and Green is younger and better than Lugo. It is an upgrade at both positions from the beginning of last season. I would be thrilled if this trade happpened.

[BSN07]

Coco+Lugo for Greene i'd do, maybe SD throw in a mid level prospect as well.

[das11209]

It is time to send Coco somewhere - we have hold onto him enough already for Santana.