bleh wrote:I wouldn't do it but it says a lot that the best ways you can describe Dom Brown is "won't have a negative career WAR" and "finally OPSing over .700". And Upton isn't going to be this bad all year.

etched Chaos wrote:

bleh wrote:I wouldn't do it but it says a lot that the best ways you can describe Dom Brown is "won't have a negative career WAR" and "finally OPSing over .700". And Upton isn't going to be this bad all year.

What do you expect me to say? That he has loads of tools, a babip bump and he could easily be a .800 ops player going forward? Reading stated a negative career WAR for someone who has under 600 PA's for his career, a small sample size to project someone's career arc, especially when you've suffered from BABIP woes like Dom. Not to mention in that less than 600 PA's he's opsing over .700 as well.

ReadingPhilly wrote:

etched Chaos wrote:

bleh wrote:I wouldn't do it but it says a lot that the best ways you can describe Dom Brown is "won't have a negative career WAR" and "finally OPSing over .700". And Upton isn't going to be this bad all year.

What do you expect me to say? That he has loads of tools, a babip bump and he could easily be a .800 ops player going forward? Reading stated a negative career WAR for someone who has under 600 PA's for his career, a small sample size to project someone's career arc, especially when you've suffered from BABIP woes like Dom. Not to mention in that less than 600 PA's he's opsing over .700 as well.

Yet you cite someone's .138 average 30 games into the season.

5 years/$75.25M (2013-17)
signed by Atlanta as a free agent 11/28/12
$3M signing bonus
13:$12.45M, 14:13.45M, 15:$14.45M, 16:$15.45M, 17:$16.45M

• Skip Schumaker since 2007: 46 pitches, hit 90-plus 10 times.

• Barry Zito since 2007: 17,469 pitches, hit 90-plus zero times.

Barry Jive wrote:I had to double check to make sure this really happened but Barry Zito won Game One of the World Series last year

Barry Jive wrote:biggest play of that game by WPA was when he GIDP'd

anyway, Upton's deal is inherently bad because it's inherently the peak of his market. he got teams to big on him as a free agent and he took the most favorable offer. you don't trade Domonic Brown for someone in that situation unless the team who just agreed to pay him a bunch of money decides to pay him a little bit to play for someone else. or unless the Braves take all that money back the other way (i.e. Ryan Howard is part of the deal)