Gene Honda Civic Posted December 8, 2004 Share Posted December 8, 2004 Back in June KW got raked over hot coals in the media, and by many here, for acquiring Freddy Garcia from the M's for the cost of a streaky, poor-hitting, catcher with a reputation for poor play-calling in '04, their top prospect and and a project of a minor league infielder...He also got a similarly poor catcher in return. A few days later FG signed to a 3-year $27M contract extension. Fast forward 6 months, and pitchers are getting handed incredibly rich contracts for seemingly no reason. 3yr AVG WARP Salary/yr $$$/WARP Benson 2.03 $7.5 $3.69M Wright 1.37 $7.0 $5.12 Wilson 3.03 $4.1 $1.35 Bradke 5.00 $9.0 $1.80 I talked a little bit about game theory and the Winner's Curse in a couple of other threads, but I won't get into it here. Pay attention to the last column, over the past few season's the Major league owners have been paying about $1M-1.25M for each Win Above Replacement. (In theory a team made up of purely AAA players will win about 60 games, WARP is a stat that approximates how many more wins above that of a AAA player that a player provides a team) For those wondering Garcia averaged 5.43WARP the last three seasons, and garnered an extension at $9M per, meaning KW paid $1.65M per win above replacement, well under the current market value. Given the current market, we see that not only is FG a bargain, so too is Paul Wilson!!!! I would imagine that the opening figure to land FG would he have been a FA would have been about $11-12M/yr.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBAHO Posted December 8, 2004 Share Posted December 8, 2004 And you can thank Fred Wilpon, Omar Minaya, and the fine organization of the New York Mets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Honda Civic Posted December 8, 2004 Author Share Posted December 8, 2004 And you can thank Fred Wilpon, Omar Minaya, and the fine organization of the New York Mets. Yeah giving up thier top pitching prospect for a guy who couldn't hit the strike zone with a beach ball didn't help either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBAHO Posted December 8, 2004 Share Posted December 8, 2004 Yeah giving up thier top pitching prospect for a guy who couldn't hit the strike zone with a beach ball didn't help either. You know Chuck LaMarr is still laughing about that trade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cali Posted December 8, 2004 Share Posted December 8, 2004 Who the f*** is Bradke? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted December 8, 2004 Share Posted December 8, 2004 Good post cheat. The free agent market isn't always the place to find your players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Kickass Posted December 8, 2004 Share Posted December 8, 2004 Math confuses me, but at least its nice to know we did something right behind the scenes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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