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Yahoo! Sports: MLB - White Sox acquire LHP Wells from Blue Jays in six-player swap
I'll look at this trade using Defense Independent Pitching Stats by Voros McCracken. By the way Voros, I would encourage you to break this into 30 different tables (or pre-formatted text), the 258KB table freezes my browser for a few seconds.
Wells was worth 62.4 runs above replacement and Sirotka was 31.8 runs above replacement and Beirne was 4.3.
The other guys aren't much worth talking about.
Brian Simmons looked like a marginal center fielder a few years back and now after missing 2000, he is unlikely to add anything to the Blue Jays roster.
Mike Williams is an A-ball reliever. Decent enough numbers, but nothing overpowering.
DeWitt might be the third best pitcher in the bunch, as he is fairly young to have already appeared in the majors.
I expect Sirotka to at least maintain his current level of performance while Wells should drop a bit (of weight). All told this could be worth a win or two for the White Sox and will save some coin for the Blue Jays.
The only way I don't like this deal for the White Sox is if they do something stupid like tear up Wells's contract and give him a new deal. If they let him play out his current contract, this should be a solid deal for them.
The Chicago White Sox won the David Wells' sweepstakes, accquiring the portly lefthander (along with Matt DeWitt) on Sunday from the Toronto Blue Jays for pitchers Mike Sirotka, Kevin Beirne and Mike Williams and outfielder Brian Simmons.
I'll look at this trade using Defense Independent Pitching Stats by Voros McCracken. By the way Voros, I would encourage you to break this into 30 different tables (or pre-formatted text), the 258KB table freezes my browser for a few seconds.
Wells was worth 62.4 runs above replacement and Sirotka was 31.8 runs above replacement and Beirne was 4.3.
The other guys aren't much worth talking about.
Brian Simmons looked like a marginal center fielder a few years back and now after missing 2000, he is unlikely to add anything to the Blue Jays roster.
Mike Williams is an A-ball reliever. Decent enough numbers, but nothing overpowering.
DeWitt might be the third best pitcher in the bunch, as he is fairly young to have already appeared in the majors.
I expect Sirotka to at least maintain his current level of performance while Wells should drop a bit (of weight). All told this could be worth a win or two for the White Sox and will save some coin for the Blue Jays.
The only way I don't like this deal for the White Sox is if they do something stupid like tear up Wells's contract and give him a new deal. If they let him play out his current contract, this should be a solid deal for them.
posted by Sean Foran # 6:14 PM 
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