Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 06, 2007
State of the Beane Address

Blez at Athletics Nation sits down for his annual chat with Billy Beane. Here's Beane on why he let players go for nothing on waivers:

Blez: As for the guys you let go on waivers, Kennedy and Loaiza, is the fact that they were let go for nothing an indication of their lack of market value? Because you never want to let go of something for nothing, right?

Beane: Yeah, that is true. In fairness to the players, it's probably not fair to answer that question. In those cases, having the flexibility in the payroll is a big addition. If I said there was no interest in this guy or no interest in that guy...

Blez: In other words, we can draw our own conclusions as to how it happened?

Beane: Yeah, exactly. The thing about trade market is that it's always fluctuating. I'll give you an example. As great a player as Mark McGwire was for us, and I was an assistant GM when Sandy (Alderson) was here, with the Cardinals it turned out to be a great deal for them. But I've said this to you before, only one team had interest in him and that was the Cardinals. That was the only team that thought they could use that player. You never know. The misconception people have in trade value is sometimes is all over the map. For players you can have a player that you have a ton of interest one week and then none the next week.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:16 PM | Interviews | TrackBack (0)
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It is also a convenient answer as to why you didn't/couldn't trade the guy.

Beane is not infallible!

Posted by: Lou at September 6, 2007 09:51 PM
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