Minor League Free Agents

There's an interesting former AAA slugger available. Then again, he couldn't even beat out Mike Jacobs so how good could he be?

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Go after Reggie Abercrombie!!

He fits the royals… average to below average defense and terrible OBP and strike zone judgement

by rockchalks7 on Nov 17, 2009 6:39 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

except that he'll only need an minor league contract

everyone knows those guys require you to give up relievers and/or significant money

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by devil_fingers on Nov 17, 2009 11:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Bring back Ruben Gotay!

His brutal defense would be greatly appreciated.

by Royal from Queens on Nov 17, 2009 6:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Guys I think could help:

Osiris Matos – good control numbers, was probably better last year than a lot of guys in our pen.

Nate Spears – seems like another Esteban German, which is not a bad thing

Mariano Gomez – great ERA in AAA, although his K/BB numbers are less than impressive – and an EX-BRAVE!

Bobby Scales – nice utility infielder who can do lots of little things – draw walks, hit for average, a little pop

Ryan Speier – good sinkerballer for the pen

Kevin Mellilo – another utility infielder who can draw some walks

Kyle Snyder – why not?

Cedrick Bowers – another great ERA, not so great peripherals, might be a LOOGY candidate

Jake Woods – decent swingman for AAA

Carlos Guevara – great peripherals, seems like a guy that needs a shot in the pen

Steven Lerud – was a top ten Pirates prospect not long ago, could give us a young catcher in our system

Kelvin Pichardo – former Top 20 Giants prospect with injury problems

Josh Phelps – great lefty masher DH/1B/OF/emergency catcher

Dallas McPherson – hit 42 homers in 2008

Joe Borchard – toosly outfielder was useful in the big leagues a few years back

Clint Everts – former Top 10 Nats Prospect was pretty good last year and is still young

Devern Hasnsack – good peripherals, was hurt all last year

Fernando Hernandez – great numbers last year, could be a good middle reliever

Ehren Wasserman – great peripherals as a reliever

Brent Clevlen – decent pop, can play all three OF positions

Justin Hampson – was pretty good in the bigs in 2008, hurt all of last year

Scott Patterson – had great control numbers in the minors until last year where he was inexplicably wild

Winston Abreu – dominant in AAA last year

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by RoyalsRetro on Nov 18, 2009 11:48 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

sold!

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by benfunke on Nov 18, 2009 12:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

In an alternative universe, Josh Phelps had the same career as Aubrey Huff

CHONE’s 2010 Projections still has Phelps as an above average major league hitter at 260/335/442 (+3 runs). Unfortunately, that is not very good for a DH type, although those would shoot up if he was used as suggested as a platoon DH.

Abreu, Scales, Melilo, Clevlen, Wasserman, Hansack, and of course McPherson jumped out at me as well.

CHONE has Scales at 261/345/400 (-6 runs), although he is probably an “infielder” with quotations marks at this point.

Melilo is projected at a disappointing 240/323/379 (-11 runs).

Clevlen is project at an even more disappointing 236/303/394 (-12 runs).

I could not find the CHONE projection for McPherson (he missed all of 2009), but one promising thing is that his walk rate doubled in 2008 to around 14%. He still struck out way too much (37%), but if the boost in walk rate sticks, he could pull off a Jack Cust tightrope act. Worse players will get major league deals.

The pitcher projections are not out yet.

by Gopherballs on Nov 18, 2009 12:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

so could CHONE's projections (or any projections, for that matter) be used to rate entire farm systems?

at least the upper portions (I figure CHONE doesn’t project for guys in Rookie leagues). maybe the relative weight of players at different levels would have to be accounted for, but maybe not since guys at AAA are more likely to actually produce than guys below that level.

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by benfunke on Nov 18, 2009 1:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

only for how a farm system's players would do playing in the majors in 2010

The CHONE projections are for the next season only, so while Eric Hosmer is a much better prospect than Chris Lubanski, Lubanksi likely would have the better projection for 2010. Thus, the utility of doing that is questionable.

CHONE, by the way, has done really well projecting AAA hitters.

by Gopherballs on Nov 18, 2009 2:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i realize this is something of a wild goose chase

but, (and this is totally hypothetical and i’m not even convinced this is a valid line of reasoning) to an extent, the discounting of prospects who are younger/at lower levels would be captured by the lesser projection. what i mean is, maybe Hosmer gets a worse projection than Lubanski, but from a true value standpoint that is a better assessment since Hosmer’s value at the MLB level is more uncertain than Lubanski’s.
Though maybe that’s not true; maybe we know Lubanski has little to no chance of being an average ML player, so even if Hosmer has (hypothetically) a low chance of having an impact at the MLB level, a low chance is better than no chance.

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by benfunke on Nov 19, 2009 12:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Shealy-Jacobs.

Shealy couldnt beat out Jacobs cause he never got a chance in the world to, do you not remember him tearing up the ball in spring training. DMGM couldnt trade away Leo and just not play Jacobs despite how useless he is and was.

by KCG816 on Nov 18, 2009 5:00 PM EST reply actions 0 recs