July 28, 2005
Yankees Get Chacon
Jayson Stark is reporting that the Yankees have traded two minor leaguers to the Rockies for Shawn Chacon. Shawn becomes the Saturday starter. It's not official, so take it with a grain of salt.
I like the move for the Yankees. Chacon is 0-5 on the road, but he has a 3.12 ERA. He's only allowed 1 home run on the road vs. six in Colorado.
The problem with Chacon, is the number of walks he allows; one every other inning. The Yankees tend not to go with pitchers as wild as that. It's going to be fun to see what Chacon can do in a big park at sea level, however.
Update: The Yankees trade two young pitchers to the Rockies. Eduardo Sierra looks like Chacon, but with more strikeouts. Ramon Ramirez is also striking out a ton of people. Maybe the Yankees should have given one of them a try in the majors.
Posted by David Pinto at
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David, the Yanks couldn't realiztically give either of the two pitchers a try. First of all, one is a reliever. Second of all, they are both in AA. I think the one who is a starter was demoted from AAA. As much as I don't like Chacon's K/BB ratio, I think this should be a half-decent trade. It might not work out, but I don't think that Yanks gave up too much for the chance that Chacon could be a decent #4 or #5.
Even the worst pitchers can look great over a span of six starts. If you look at the other years that Chacon has been a starter ('01-'03), his away numbers don't look very good. ERA ranges from 4.86 to 5.05; WHIP ranges from 1.41 to 1.63.
Those ERA ranges look pretty good compared to what the Yanks have been throwing out there every 5th day. He's sure to be better then the atrocious Brown. And maybe even better than Leiter, who seems to be teetering on the edge of disaster all too often. And I'm sure he's better than Nomo would be.
Yeah, Chacon might be better, but a 5 ERA in the NL west doesn't translate to a 5 ERA in the AL east... We'll see...
