Heyman On Bonifacio, Lincecum, Garcia

The genius, Jon Heyman, is at it again.

Bonifacio is batting .500 in all of SIX games this year, and already Heyman is praising the Marlins?

The guy had a career line of .285/.341/.362 in the minors, and because he's hit well in six games, suddenly he's an emerging star?

The Marlins traded a young, durable, cheap lefty starter and a good platoon bat, and all they got in return was Bonifacio and two low level minor leaguers with limited upside.

That doesn't sound praise-worthy to me..

Bonifacio will be batting .240 in two weeks..

I just think it's unreal to read that article, which gives Bonifacio and the Marlins so much freaking credit, just a week into the season..

You're talking about a guy who's followed and written about baseball for years, and yet he never thought about the concept of sample sizes, and the fact that even mediocre players can get hot from time to time?

It boggles my mind that Heyman can so quickly come to the conclusion that the scouting world was wrong about Bonifacio after years of scouting him, just from a single good week.

If only we could send Heyman to AAA

If only we could send Heyman to AAA
Posted by: exitfare | April 13, 2009 at 01:02 PM
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I's thinking the Atlantic League but AAA is good too..haha

Some rather sad news again. Baseball has lost another member of it's family. Harry Kalas was found passed out in the booth at the Phils game today. He was taken to the hospital, where he died.

Acoording to ESPN.

RIP
Harry Kalas. You will be missed!

It's way,WAY too early to label a winner in the trade,however, as scribbletone said, Bonafacio will wind hitting .240 next week and he's on the bench/Triple-A.

Harry Kalas collasped while in the booth and they found him at 12:30. i guess for a man like that to pass away in the booth is where he would want to go out.
RIP Harry you will be missed.

I never will forget what Ralph Nador said. When he asked the Washington Post to sponsor(??) him, they said no. He asked why and they said cause you have no chance of winning. He then asked them then why do cover the Nationals.

"The Marlins traded a young, durable, cheap lefty starter and a good platoon bat, and all they got in return was Bonifacio and two low level minor leaguers with limited upside."

Dean and Smolinksi have more than limited upside. They aren't top specs, but, they're not scrubs.

Smolinski has a career BB/K of 0.56, he'll hit for average and put up a nice OBP. Scouts also believe he'll be developing gap power. The problem right now is his injury, but also that his defense is in question. If he can stay at second base, he's valuable. If he's stuck in LF, he's value plummets. Marlins believe he'll stay at 2b.

Dean isn't as good of a spec as Smolinksi, but he has a 92 MPH fastball with room to grow, already posses a plus curve, and has a developing change.

Also, Emilio isn't horrible. One of the main things is that he's significantly better against RHP than LHP. He should be able to maintain a low-to-mid .700 OPS against RHP, which, when combined with his defense and speed, would make him an average to above average 2B. The problem is against LHP and if he can turn it around against them.

When you consider the fact that Scott Olsen needs to stop being overrated (he's posted back to back FIPs over 5, and check how he's done so far this year. Dude is done) and that Josh Willingham has major injury concerns, that's not a horrible haul.

When you the consider what the Angels and Rays were offering the Nats for the two, you then see that the Marlins did better than that. Angels were basically offering nothing for Olsen, and Rays were offering Hammel for Hammer.

"Idk, I kinda dig Emilio Bonifacio but I dig him the same way I did Carlos Gomez last year. He'll flame out near the end of May. Just like Gomez. :p"

You really can't compare Carlos Gomez and Emilio Bonifacio.

Gomez was still one of the best defensive CFers, if not the best defensive CF in baseball last year. If he can even remotely improve with the bat, he's a keeper.