Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 01, 2006
Bad Deal for Doug?

Fire Brand of the American League is not at all happy with the Doug MIrabelli trade.

Basically we trade a young catcher who was doing pretty good with the stick save for his power outage, and a young reliever, plus cash or a PTBNL, all because he was doing exactly what Doug Mirabelli did when he first caught Tim Wakefield.

It’s a desperation move. It helps now, sure, but it’s a desperation move which leaves us less options for the future. I love Doug Mirabelli, and I’m going to cheer him on the rest of the season, but I won’t forget what he cost.

Make sure you catch his update as well.


Posted by David Pinto at 05:57 PM | Trades | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Has anyone taken a look at Loretta lately? Now I know why SD was so quick to trade him for a backup catcher.

Posted by: sabernar at May 1, 2006 06:36 PM

The passed-ball statistic I just heard on the tube -- Mirabelli had 6 passed balls in well over 200 innings with Wakefield, versus Bard's 10 passed balls in something like 50 innings pitched with him. Given that, I can understand the desperation. Whether it was too much to pay will take time to determine.

Posted by: Robert Daeley at May 1, 2006 07:24 PM

Loretta's avg sucks but he's not striking out and, like his first at bat today showed, he's making productive outs. As much as I don't like agreeing with Sutcliffe...Loretta will be fine. Mirabelli gave up 13 PB's in 03, and 15 in 04...over full seasons. Bard's performance didn't really give Boston anything to be too optimistic about.

Posted by: the other josh at May 1, 2006 08:02 PM

Meridith had one pitch and was spanked around pretty badly last May - since then he has struggled in Triple A with an ERA over 5. Having Bard catch Wake was essentially losing Wakefield's efforts as a starter and making him a losing pitcher. It seemd Wake was throwing more and more fastballs to help the catcher instead of fooling batters. For a staff that has Lenny Dinardo filling in for the broken down Wells and the enigmatic Clement filling out the back end all the pressure was on Schilling and Beckett to win every start. They need Wake to have quality starts and be a .500 pitcher.

Posted by: madlucas at May 2, 2006 12:17 PM
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