MLBTR: Dodgers Moving Closer On Scott Podsednik
C'mon....So close....
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GMDM loves Pods he'll prob ask for too much and some other team will swoop in and
trade a piece to the Dodgers for less.
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I'm under the hope
that DM signed he and Ankiel purely for this reason, in hopes that they’d have nice seasons and we could flip them at the deadline. This is my hope because that would be the signs of a smart GM.
by I need more Esteban on Jul 28, 2010 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Even smarter
not signing Podsednik and Ankiel at all, given the low likelihood them playing well enough to bring anything back
Although I will be impressed if Pods manages to bring back a C prospect, which would sort of make up for the disaster that is the Ankiel deal.
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by Matt Klaassen on Jul 28, 2010 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah exactly
time will tell if we get something for Podsednik or not but if we do, I count it as a win (unless we get a bag of fungo bats)
by I need more Esteban on Jul 28, 2010 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't actually have a problem with signing one of them cheap.
No one thought Guillen would play in the OF at all (and still probably shouldn’t have), leaving us with DeJesus, MITCH, and the Spork until Gordon was ready. Parraz is worth calling up at this point, but maybe not at the beginning of the season. So, signing one made some sense, just not both.
Dodgers are a team that has been known to trade good prospects for somewhat crappy veterans
can we have Carlos Santana?…oh wait….
With Moose "scary" slow start in Omaha
maybe we’ll get Casey Blake!
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by Matt Klaassen on Jul 28, 2010 6:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Honestly, how much of a "push" do they need to make?
Any b or c prospect our scouts like should be enough, right? He’s not good for anything but 40 games of meaningless baseball to us, and that’s if you think having him playing IS what you want.
If the Dodgers want to send us Sean O'Sullivan's even crappier, even more overweight twin brother
that would be a steal for Pods
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by Matt Klaassen on Jul 28, 2010 6:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Why do I get the feeling the Dodgers are offering a decent prospect
and Dayton keeps pushing for two left-handed A ball arms?
that's called the influence of a prior.
Yay for Bayesian statistics!
it depends on the "market"
In one scenario, no one wants Pods except for one team, and they send a C- prospect.
In another, two teams one him, and one team has to outbid the other with a B or B- prospect.
In the third (my guess), the Dodgers have little to no interest in Pods, they just want to screw with the Giants who actually are looking at him, either to disrupt their process and make them pull the trigger before they’re ready and/or to force the Giants to bid up Pods’s price.
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by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jul 28, 2010 6:56 PM EDT up reply actions
well I take my guess back, apparently
but also apparently the market for Pods developed, that or the Dodgers really did get swindled.
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by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jul 29, 2010 3:29 AM EDT up reply actions
I believe Pods projects as a Type B FA now
which means the Royals would have to get back something more valuable than a sandwich pick. If all they get back is a sandwich pick, the Pods contract would have been worthwhile tho.
Wow
According to MLBTR’s version of the approximated Elias rankings, Pods was actually not that far off from Type A status as of the posting on July 14. Pods wasn’t exactly close as of July 14, but he’s gone on a tear since then, so he might have an outside shot of making it to Type A if he can finish the year hot. I wouldn’t count on that, but Type B seems pretty likely.
Also, his current contract is pretty small, so I don’t think you’d have to worry about him accepting arbitration.
well, maybe he's worth a lot more than I think.
I would take a sandwich pick for him, that’s for sure. And maybe that’s what we should hope for. This team drafts a lot better than it trades.
If he keeps up his current pace
and you ignore the draft pick cost of signing a Type B FA, sure he could probably get more as a FA than through arbitration. But when you factor in the draft pick cost, I don’t think there is a cheap enough contract to make Pods a worthwhile person to sign. He would have to pay the team that signs him most likely. I think he would be smart to take arbitration if offered.
If he's Type B, the signing team doesn't lose a pick
That’s only for Type A
Pods is more valuable to the NL than to the AL
And I think he’s more valuable to us than we realize. I know that he’s tanked it lately as a veteran, and his defense isn’t good, but he’s been consistent. He’s hit over .300 and even though the value of the SB is overrated and debated around here, he has a bunch. He’s a decent player for us.
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