Trade Advice...

by PioneerSkies on May 3, 2009 7:44 PM EDT Comment 8 comments

I have been offered David Wright for Chase Utley. What do you think?

I'm in a points only Yahoo league. Offensive categories are: R (+1), 1B (+1), 2B (+2), 3B (+3), HR (+4), RBI (+1), SB (+1), BB (+1), CYC (+10), and K (-1). Currently, my batters line up like so:

C - Pablo Sandoval (C, 1B, 3B)
1B - Adrian Gonzalez (1B)
2B - Chase Utley (2B)
3B - Chris Davis (1B, 3B)
SS - Alexei Ramirez (2B, SS, OF)
OF - Ryan Braun (OF)
OF - Carlos Quentin (OF)
OF - Vernon Wells (OF)
Util - Joey Votto (1B)
Util - Adam Jones (OF)
Bench - Dan Uggla (2B)
Bench - Brad Hawpe (OF)
Bench - Chris Iannetta (C)

I've been platooning Sandoval and Iannetta at C all season. I recently picked up Davis off of waivers, dropping Edwin Encarnacion. At the beginning of the year, I had Alex Rodriguez, but I traded him and Jose Valverde for Braun and Matt Capps (an absolute fleecing).

So far this season, Wright has put up 52 points, including 14 points in the past week. Utley has 98 points on the year, including 32 in the last week alone.

What do you think, folks? Any advice will help.

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If it matters, my pitching staff is made up of Sabathia, Oswalt, Volquez, Lidge, Capps, F. Francisco, Qualls, Garza, Slowey and Smoltz on the DL. This league is also a pseudo-keeper league. Each team is allowed to keep three players at the end of the season, one of which must be a battter, one of which must be a pitcher. My keepers this year were A-Rod, A-Gonzalez and Sabathia.

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by PioneerSkies on May 3, 2009 7:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Categories for pitchers are:

IP (1), W (10), CG (5), SHO (5), SV (8), ER (-1), BB (-1), K (1), NH (+10), and BSV (-8).

"DAMMIT! No, calm down. Learn to enjoy losing." --Hunter S. Thompson

by PioneerSkies on May 3, 2009 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Keep Utley

I know Wright exploded last season after an oh-fer April, but Utley is the better player in the better ballpark at a more premium position. I’d look at dealing Crhis Davis and Sandoval for Wright, but I suspect the other guy knows Wright is better or he wouldn’t have asked for Utley

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by faketeams on May 4, 2009 7:15 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Home/Away

Wright has had some fairly gaudy home/away splits last year and this first month of this season. They are opposite though. Last years splits had him at a .336/.427/.618 line at Shea while .271/.345/..455 on the road. This year he has a home line of .239/.340/.391 and a road line of .333/.431/.405. How this plays out for 2009, who knows? But Wright is a helluva player and I suspect he will adjust.

Last year Wright hit 29 of his 33 HR’s after April. Ten were on the road and the remaining 19 at home. Of his 33 homers in 2008, they were as follows-
Left 11
Left Center 14
Center 0
Right Center 5
Right 3

Citi Field
Field Dimensions (feet)
Left Field – 335
Left Center – 379
Center – 408
Right Center – 383
Right Field – 330

Shea Stadium
Field Dimensions (feet)
Left Field – 338
Left Center – 371
Center – 410
Right Center – 371
Right Field – 338

I believe Citi Field has higher walls than Shea had.

by acr on May 4, 2009 8:34 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

how many just cleared

the Shea stadium walls, I wonder. B/C they could become doubles in Citifield with the 15 foot walls.

raygu

by Ray Guilfoyle on May 4, 2009 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Now is a great time to get Wright at a bargain price

but Utley is well above that price. CC or oswalt isn’t

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by Hyatt on May 4, 2009 1:58 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs