i told all my friends that jermaine dye would make sox fans forget about carlos lee. they all laughed at me. for the record....
BA OBP SLG HR RBI R SB AB Salary
Dye: .272 .328 .511 30 84 71 11 513 $4 million
Lee: .267 .326 .497 32 111 82 12 592 $8 million
The only place lee is drastically better is in RBI, which is team influenced, and also due to the fact that dye has 80 fewer ABs.
Taking salary into account, especially in a year where corner OF were going for 10+ million dollars, this stat line alone should almost give KW exec. of the year. Then consider that KW got Marcus Giles with fewer doubles in iguchi, and the second best catcher in the AL in AJ for the remaining 4 million that was covered in the dye/lee trade off, and KWs offseason was downright ridiculous