I love that a trade between the league's two bottom-dwellers generates this much analysis - what will happen when we see a real blockbuster between Caleb and Andrew?
For what it's worth, I think the trade is a slightly better deal for Yoouuuk if you look at in a vacuum, but actually does a nice job of filling both team's needs.
For me, I obviously am in desperate need of power, and while I'd be surprised if Dye comes close to last year, I'm hoping for 2005 production as long as he stays healthy, which will still be a big lift. Cano (assuming he bounced back) would be useful, but not as useful as the HRs and RBIs I could potentially get from Dye.
For Youuuk, he gets a potential keeper (I think I took Cano in the 7th) at a relatively shallow spot. I think Cano's upside is to be something like Derek Jeter - a high average hitter in a great lineup that therefore gets a ton of RBI's and runs, and the occasional stolen base. On the other hand, he's young, got very lucky last season with his average, and as others have pointed out is very impatient at the plate.
Baldelli's value is really hurt by the weekly format in my opinion. The guy gets more rest because he's been injury plagued, plus, he's injury plagued. Baldelli's got some decent all-around value (some SBs, decent average, decent power) but with my outfield having Magglio, Ichiro, and Dye plus Sosa and hopefully Adam Lind coming on, I didn't see a lot of value for him, particularly with him hitting 0.34 in march so far.
Iguchi is more or less useless I guess.
So Youuuk gets a good potential keeper (especially valuable for him if he gives up on the year), I get the power I really needed and give up a guy I probably wasn't going to play anyway.
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