ESPN Chat with Keith Law
Another Take on the McLouth Trade
Jim (CT): I know you are going to talk draft, but can you give us a quick opinion on the McLouth to Atlanta deal?
Keith Law: (1:09 PM ET ) Like it a lot for Pittsburgh - Morton could go right in their rotation, Gorkys is a ++ defender with a chance to hit (he hasn't been good this year but he's also 21 in AA), Locke is a high-upside LHP with three pitches who has shown good feel and command in the past. That's a lot of talent - and difficult-to-get talent, since players up the middle and LHP are hard to acquire in trade or free agency - for a guy who is, what, an average outfielder? Fringe-average? Since 6/1/08 McLouth has hit .256/.327/.447 if you exclude his 7 IBB, and he's not good in CF.
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I wonder what yesterday’s poll would have looked like if this was quote was included in the post.
More KLaw - love the snark
Jeremy (NY): Keith, that’s ridiculous to exclude McLouths IBBs. You can’t just do that to prove your point. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a slash line with IBBs taken out before.
SportsNation Keith Law: You haven’t seen it before, therefore … it’s ridiculous? If the point is to look at past hitting performance to give us some sense of future performance, why would you credit him with something the opposing manager decided to do? Are you going to evaluate #8 hitters in the NL without looking at the IBB column? But the best part is that you’re mad that I took out those IBBs because you know it reveals that McLouth has been pretty meh as a hitter for a full year now. In fact, outside of a two-month outlier period, this is pretty much what he is.
I'm not quite as optimistic on the trade from the Pirates point of view.
I don’t see Morton making much of an impact in their rotation and Hernandez will be blocked by McCutchen and Tabata. Not a terrible trade for the Pirates though, but I would have preferred a different set of prospects if I were Neal Huntington.
+1
A power-hitting corner outfielder would have made more sense as that doesn’t currently exist in system. An offense minded infielder would offer the same.
Gorkys projects to be the same player McCutchen is, and Gorkys is struggling mightily in AA to show any sort of power and his speed production is laughable – 10-18 in SB attempts.
I appreciate Keith Law insight and snark, but I can’t help shaking he is just showing his anti-McLouth leanings versus examining what a player with McLouth’s abilities and cost are worth. Maybe the Gold Glove has so insulted his sense of fairness that he holds the GG voters against McLouth
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