{"id":35,"date":"2008-08-03T04:31:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T04:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2015-02-07T05:27:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T05:27:12","slug":"deadline-deal-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Deadline Deal Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mark-teixeira.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-61 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mark-teixeira-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"mark-teixeira\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a>Last week I droned on about the mind-numbing dullness of baseball\u2019s mid-season. This week I\u2019m eating my words.<\/p>\n<p>Lets break down the two biggest trade deadline deals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teixeira to the Halos: Braves trade Teixeira, who will become a free agent after this season, for Casey Kotchman (he of the .280 batting average, 12 dingers and 55 RBI). How did the Braves get fleeced here? They get a legitimate, starting first baseman who is excited about playing in Atlanta and who should hang round for a while. In return, they surrender a three-month rental player. Immediate advantage: Halos. Long-term advantage: Braves.<\/li>\n<li>Manny to Dodgers: This is ludicrous, the biggest coup of Theo\u2019s tenure. The Sox are instantly improved by obliterating the biggest team distraction this side of the Marlins\u2019 Manatees.\u00a0 As a bonus, they get Bay, a consummate professional who will bolster team chemistry and bring similar numbers to the table. Harp all you want about the \u201cpresence\u201d Manny brought to the lineup. Presence shmesence. Manny\u2019s numbers dont elevate him above the field anymore. Sure, he has superior career numbers, but he isn\u2019t the fearsome hitter he once was. I\u2019ll take Bay with his hustle, superior range in leftfield, and similar if not better offensive numbers. Winners: Sox.\u00a0 Loser: Joe Torre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I droned on about the mind-numbing dullness of baseball\u2019s mid-season. This week I\u2019m eating my words. Lets break down the two biggest trade deadline deals. Teixeira to the Halos: Braves trade Teixeira, who will become a free agent after this season, for Casey Kotchman (he of the .280 batting average, 12 dingers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[115,116,111,118,30,80,114,117,34],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-casey-kotchman","tag-jason-bay","tag-joe-torre","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-manny-ramirez","tag-mark-teixeira","tag-marlins","tag-theo-epstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}