You know prospects were bound to be traded and that can just rip the guts out of a Stat Kid. Oh The Value. Oh The Rentals. Oh Ned being Ned. Sky is falling, stuff like that.
Check this poor kid out. Seems he was a little upset over the Brandon League trade.
JohnM
Leon Landry is a third round draft pick from 2009. He is currently ranked 20th on MLB.com top 20 dodger prospects. He is described as a player who can hit for average and not strike out. He doesn't have a ton of homer power, but can hit the ball in the gaps for doubles and triples. He has good instincts in the outfield and on the basepaths allowing his speed to play up even more. He's a very good defender who could profile as a top of the order guy in the future.
efb Landry could become an above average 5 tool outfielder
Of course John has never seen Landry play.
JohnM
Deuce phattonez7 He was good in 09 and 11. And he may even get things back on track, but even if he does the most value he can get us as a TWO MONTH RENTAL is a .5 WAR. And that is not worth a prospect with a decent upside in a farm system that is lacking good position players.
phattonez7 JohnM You regard him far too little. League sucks. He's about a 0.2-0.4 WAR and if he regresses to his xFIP he could be even worse. That is not worth a prospect with any kind of upside. I'm not opposed to training Landry or anyone in the dodger farm system, as long as we don't trade them for crap.
Decent upside. If you have a good cry over trading your 20th or 30th best prospect - depending on who you talk to - for a major league pitcher, you're in for a very painful baseball hobby.
I think League improves the middle of the Dodger bullpen. He's an upgrade over Lindblom, Javy, Elbert and Wright. That's not nothing in a pennant race. Tragic Illness thinks League is just a GUY. Of course what Tragic does best is disparage players and so he doesn't give the GUY credit at all. We'll see how that works out.
Baseball isn't about building the most complete bunch of minor leaguers who will never play in the big leagues. It's about winning. This is a trade, however small, that helps the Dodgers' cause.
One of John's friends in the chat room tells it better than me:
JeffKlein
JohnM WAR is only useful as a macro stat over several seasons - there's too much variation - and it's not the end all be all. You can't live your baseball life by Sabermetrics. When we are playing the Giants and the momentum shifts towards SF and League comes in and kills their momentum, what stat are you going to use for that? What stat to you use when someone like Hairston steps it up playing well above his talent level for a month while Kemp is on the DL.
Remember George Sherrill, he had a great WAR the season he came over to the Dodgers. And look what happened. WAR means almost nothing in the short term.
League is a veteran presence on the mound, more effective and reliable than our other veteran relievers like Wright. League might come over and totally crap out. But it's not like we gave up much anyway.
JONAH POWER POLL.
Interesting stuff here.
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