6 Years Ago Today

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

You could look it up

[Guest d'Kong76]

Fun to read stuff like that.

[Frayed Knot]

For some reason or other I remained comment-less in that thread and I don't really remember how I felt about it at the time.

Pretty much turned out to be not much of a biggie one way or the other.
Both Church and Schneider held down starting positions for a while but didn't do much long term while holding on to Milledge would have only resulted in disappointment anyway and his value continued to head south as far as for use in potential future trades.
In all one could argue that they should have traded him even earlier when his value was higher, but you can say that with hindsight for many high draft picks.

Lastings went: .251/.329/.436 w/16 HRs over 374 ABs for Yakult this past season, his second in the JPL. He'll turn 29 around opening day 2014.

[Edgy MD]

Church was doing all-f'ing-right until concussing himself attempting to break up a game-ending double play. Never remotely the same player after.

Nonetheless, this strikes me as the sort of deal that Alderson stays away from. (He stays away from a lot of them.) If he has a positoin open and can't find the player he wants for the price he wants, he'd just as soon try and squeeze two WAR out of minor league free agents and fringy prospects, rather than try and reach three WAR by going with an unditinguished veteran, holding his money and redirecting any difference elsewhere.

[Fman99]

I continue to amuse myself, years later.

Fman99 wrote: Nov 30 2007 02:31 PM seawolf17 wrote: Apparently, Brian Schneider is a member of the Pool. He's the Baby Ruth in the pool.

[metirish]

Great read, Nymr was on fire..miss that.

[smg58]

The team's handling of Church's concussion was the low point of Minaya's tenure. I still feel bad for Church; he was horribly unlucky to begin with, and then the manager and front office seemed to get annoyed with him for not recovering to their satisfaction.

Minaya did have a knack for getting value from throw-ins, though, and Church played better (however briefly) than Milledge wound up doing. But the trade still revolved around trading a top prospect for a catcher who was worth less than his contract.

[Edgy MD]

If the implication is that Ryan Church was valueless, or a throw-in or not a real target of the deal, I disagree with that. He had OPS+'d at 131 and 114 the previous two seasons.

Also, while Milledge could be called a top prospect pre-2006, it's debatable whether he was still such an animal pre-2008. Clearly the Mets had lost some faith.

[dgwphotography]

This seems so much longer than 6 years...