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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Mariners following the Bizarro-Brewers plan
After I ran the Fans’ Scouting Report, and saw the UZR results, it was painfully obvious what the Brewers needed to do last year with their fielding (Note: Mike Cameron had yet to sign):
1. Get Ryan Braun out of the infield, pronto.(*) I thought RF would be ideal, which would move Corey Hart to CF, and move Bill Hall to 3B. Out of the available options in the OF, Hart was the best-fit for CF.
2. Get Richie Weekes out of the infield, already. Enough was enough, and LF would be a good fit for him.
(*)Every year, we get one of these projects and fans who say “you never know, maybe just give him a bit of time”. Same thing happened with Wily Mo Pena when the Redsox got him. It’s like those girls who think they’re the ones who can change you, but you will always be a jerk regardless. Hope is not a plan. A plan leads to hope, not the other way around.
I’m obviously not the only one who wanted to realign them. And, they signed Mike Cameron, so CF was locked up. They moved Braun out of the IF (but they left Weekes there). Overall, good job.
The Mariners on the other hand, are undoing what they should be doing. DMZ lays it all out for you, but what a disarray of fielding talent. If you want to understand the additional value the CF has over a corner OF, or that a decent-fielding catcher has over 1B or DH, then try to make sense of the Mariners roster. It was a bit unfair for them to take this long to move Ichiro from RF to CF, but if anyone could make the transition at this late age, it’s him. I know UZR wasn’t crazy about his play (and at some point this year, I’ll investigate the PBP data of Safeco).
Anyway, what a mess. The most undervalued talent is probably fielding (and positional scarcity), and it doesn’t look like the Mariners have leveraged that in the least.
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