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Chioakcisco
BABIP is still better than their first idea, BABIT (Batting average relative to Shooty Babbitt).
mlbaustin
Doolittle’s piece is one of the most useful articles I’ve ever read on ESPN.
Jaysfan1994 2
Considering a Bip Roberts rookie trading card is possibly worth $1000-2000 dollars today, I like the way the Athletics are running things.
Benjamin D. Kuehnle
Why would the Rockies consider bringing either of them back when they are 22 GB in the NL West and 16.5 back in the Wild Card? One would think they would want to make sure that they are 100% come next spring training.
Seamaholic
So that they have trade value.
bjsguess
Still confused by the strategy in Colorado. For some reason, both Cargo and Tulo are viewed as major assets despite their injury concerns. They could flip both, free up $40M/annually for the next 6 or so years AND create a world class farm system. This would have minimal impact on their probability for success in the short term as the team isn’t competitive with them on the roster today.
Tulo and Cargo are both very talented players but history doesn’t show a lot of great examples of guys who were oft injured in their 20’s that suddenly become pillars of health in their 30’s.
Aside from that Cargo has just absurd splits. He’s a career 329/387/601 (418 wOBA / 140 wRC+) at home and a 258/314/437 (324 wOBA / 101 wRC+) away from Coors. I wouldn’t expect regression to his career away numbers, but Cargo will definitely not be the stud he is today if he were traded away.
Jaysfan1994 2
Stubborn ownership has to be the reason for why them and I guess you could throw in the Phillies, haven’t pulled the plug and started a massive rebuild.
SwingtimeInTheRockies
Trade value for either Tulo or CarGo is probably at its low point right now. Money is not an issue for Rockies ownership. Plus, where would they spend that money they might save?
Dock_Elvis
Like others have said, it’s not strictly a baseball decision. They still need to sell tickets. If they could put a pitching staff on the field they could
compete. For all of Tulo’s gaudy stats, any team that acquires him will need a caddy that can cover the 60 games he’s out from chronic injury.