I love you Wayne Krivsky!
After cleaning up Dan O'Brien's mess and demoting Dave Williams--believed by the former Reds GM to improve the rotation woes, but who thus far showcased a 7.20 ERA and 54 hits allowed in his 40 innings--Krivsky ships him off to the stupid Mets for an outstanding 22-year-old pitching prospect. Robert Manuel is a 22-year-old right-hander who was 8-1 with a 2.06 ERA last season for the Gulf Coast Mets before a promotion to Brooklyn. Overall, he struck out 54 with only four walks in 61 2/3 innings. Plus the Mets will be picking up the remainder of Williams' $1.4 salary for 2006.
What a great move! Dumping dead weight, cutting inflated payroll, and getting promising talent in return is all I can ask for as a Reds fan. Manuel might not be Feliz Hernandez, but he is young and has held his own thus far in his professional progression.
How dumb are the Mets? Or are they just desperate? Either way, I love seeing the Reds improve.
Did anyone see the throws LeCroy made against the Astros today? God he's awful. I might ACTUALLY prefer Mike Piazza trying to throw people out instead of that lump with a mask. Robinson took him out in the middle of an inning. HA! Could he be more embaressed by his manager? Lovely.
posted by local inebriated funny man @ 10:00 PM
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yes, but would you prefer chad moeller over either?
No. Let's not go crazy here.
Having watched LeCroy try to play catcher earlier this year, I can't believe it took this long for a team to take full advantage of him.
I hate doing this to you LIFM, but the trade is not as grand as you probably think. First, the Reds are picking up about half of Williams's remaining contract. Second, this Robert Manuel guy seems to be a real non-prospect. As far as I know, he went undrafted, meaning no team thought he was worthy of one of the about 1500 picks last June. The reason is likely because he didn't put up very good numbers at Sam Houston State in his one year playing there. I will say that he pitched well in rookie ball, but most 22-year-olds do. The Mets apparently didn't think too much of him, as it sent him down to start the year in short-season A ball. Because short-season ball hasn't begun, he hasn't pitched a professional pitch this year. He will be 23 in another month and getting his first taste of the midwest league. Unless Manuel discovered something crazy like another 10 mph on his fastball after college, he probably isn't going to have an MLB future. The Mets organization isn't desparate enough to give up anything of real value here. If it was, it wouldn't be sending Williams down to AAA.
This isn't to say that the trade wasn't good for the Reds. I haven't seen Williams enough with the Reds to know if the problems he's facing couldn't be cured. Williams gives up too many fly balls, which in that stadium with that outfield defense, just isn't going to work. He is getting paid too much, so this could be a classic $500,000 saving move.
Did anyone else catch Ben Hendrickson outduel Dewon Brazelton in AAA last night? Funny how two of the four worst pitchers I've ever seen faced off. Hendrickson went 7 scoreless innings allowing just one hit. But, uh oh, still more walks allowed than strikeouts. Brazelton gave up 5 runs in 3.2 innings and also had more walks than strikeouts.
The Reds won't look like so promising after they trade away Dunnimus to the Tigers at the deadline
any trade for williams is a steal. the brilliance of this trade was NOT the face values of the players involved. the REAL beauty of this trade lies in Krivsky's lack of hesitation to clean up O'Brien's mess--and with that, assuming whatever move he made before the season (williams, womack, hancock, hudson, etc.) are insanley stupid and make zero baseball sense.
i knew manuel's undrafted history before i posted, jammers. i'll take my chances with him anyway. after all, we only gave up dave williams...
he makes this sounds like the second coming of the franklin/estrella for villanueva/woolard deal. Doug Melvin Kravisky is not.
A yardstick Melvin is not.
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