The Worth of Werth (Split from Offseason Transactions)

[Farmer Ted]

He'll pull a Strasburg and blow out some overly-muscled joint in his upper torso rendering him useless for 2/3 of this contract.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Check out Werth's home road splits. Last year, Werth batted 50 points higher at home, and hit twice as many HR's at home than on the road. Playing half his games in D.C. nest season, there's a very good chance that Werth won't hit 20 HR's.

Yes, but every one he hits will be that much more valuable.

[Guest attgig]

the nationals aren't goign to compete next year. and i would think they should really be targetting 2012-2013 timeframe to start making runs at the post season.

This really doesn't seem that smart. Maybe they have great defensive metrics on werth to put his value up there, but it really seems silly to commit to 7 years and big money when you're not going to compete for another couple years...

who knows. maybe when strasburg and harper start playing in DC along with werth, they'll somehow be amazing...

[Guest attgig]

hmmm. he did have great splits at nat's park last year.
2 hrs and a 1.306 ops....though I wonder if that's the park or if that's just National's pitching. =P

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Psst! Small sample size!

[Frayed Knot]

This has all the makings of an "owner's move" - one done for the added publicity, hoped-for ticket bump, etc. - as opposed to strictly a GM selection, particularly seeing as how much ownership and Boras have worked together recently: both Strasburg & Harper were Boras guys.
Recently departed team Prez Stan Kasten was supposedly frustrated in attempts to get the owners to spend, now they may have gone overboard as an attempt to show that he was wrong.

[batmagadanleadoff]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Check out Werth's home road splits. Last year, Werth batted 50 points higher at home, and hit twice as many HR's at home than on the road. Playing half his games in D.C. nest season, there's a very good chance that Werth won't hit 20 HR's. Yes, but every one he hits will be that much more valuable.

Why of course. All seven of them.