{"id":1958,"date":"2009-12-16T18:42:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T00:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2009-12-16T18:48:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T00:48:43","slug":"the-epic-and-eccentric-of-trading-for-juan-pierre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/1958\/the-epic-and-eccentric-of-trading-for-juan-pierre","title":{"rendered":"The Epic And Eccentric Of Trading For Juan Pierre"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Scotty Pods magically turned into a Scotty Pods who can (mostly) play the outfield, it seems like the Sox have finally turned a corner in their offseason plan, rather than simply falling face-first into that corner as Carl Crawford turns a routine popout into an inside-the-park home run. Juan Pierre is an upgrade; Juan Pierre is a ray of hope REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS GOING TO SAVE THE CUBS?<\/strong> in an otherwise hopeless 2010.<\/p>\n

Jim pretty much nailed the ramifications of the trade<\/a> in terms of personnel, but I think the deal goes a step further than that; yes, it’s another case of Kenny Williams getting his guy even if it meant waiting forever A-ROD 2017; BOOK IT!<\/strong> but it also means the Sox, in presumably letting Pods walk, passed on an opportunity to take the cheap, fan-friendly way out.<\/p>\n

True, Pierre’s numbers were helped by playing in the National League ACCOUNTING FOR THE MOVE TO THE AL TURNS HIM INTO SCOTTY PODS<\/strong> but where leadoff hitters the Sox would actually spring for are concerned, there are worse options. You could argue that the Mariners, in signing a hitter so fantastically complementary to the abilities of Ichiro, laid the groundwork for the best 1-2 punch in baseball and showed people how to strengthen not just a position but a team; but you could also argue the Mariners had a deeper hole to dig out of ACTUALLY THEY WON SIX MORE GAMES THAN THE SOX IN 2009<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So at worst, Pierre is small comfort, an acquisition the Sox have strongly wanted SO WAS DARIN ERSTAD<\/strong> to play a role they sorely needed DUDE THE DH IS PLAYING RIGHT FIELD<\/strong> while resisting the urge to give a man on his last legs a multi-year deal best avoided ONE MIDDLING .300 HITTER SHOULD NOT BE SO PREFERRABLE TO ANOTHER<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It’s not that the Sox have necessarily won in this move, but at least they haven’t lost, either EVEN IF THE BODY COUNT APPROACH<\/a> TO TRADE EVALUATION SAYS THEY HAVE?<\/strong>, no matter what the body count approach to trade evaluation tries to tell you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Juan Pierre isn’t this and he isn’t that; Juan Pierre just is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[608,35,607,589,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}