General Sports Water Cooler

Again you fall into the assigning value only for performance to date in 2012 and not thinking about future expectations. Pujols' OPS clearly is being driven down by a horrendous start to the season, which you could attribute to either him falling off a cliff or him switching teams, ball parks, leagues, etc and having to adjust. Either way he's been on fire for like 3 months now and only a fool would expect Albert Pujols to finish worse in any given season than a Betemit/Reynolds platoon.

At .880 against RHP Betemit is also like 55 points above his career average. And neither one of them has a career average of above .900 from either side of the plate. So yes, maybe the platoon has performed as well as Pujols through August 1 in total, but drawing conclusions based off of that seems like a fools errand. My opinion.

We're not talking about anything other than 2012 performance. Nobody is suggesting anything other than that. Nobody is predicting future performance or whatever other crap you said.

Not to mention his style of pitching doesn't fit our defense.

I mean he's not good but given some of the other scrubs we've given MiL contracts to this year I see no harm is signing him to a MiL contract after he clears waivers (if). I mean he should never be a starter but you might be able to salvage value from him as a BP arm if he'd be amenable to it.

2012 isn't over yet...that's the point. In no way is Mark Trumbo a better 1B than Albert Pujols. By saying that you are completely discounting the value from future expected performance in assigning value to a player. Maybe he HAS been better offensively than Pujols so far this year, but that isn't what you said.

You really struggle to comprehend things, don't you? People were talking about REALISTIC WAYS to upgrade the team for the last 2 months of 2012. No shit you can't just trade for Albert Pujols. What you could do though, is fill a 3B hole (maybe with Headley) and then get SIMILAR production from Betemit/Reynolds at 1B to what 2012 Albert Pujols has produced.

Well I'd be all for it if we can get .850+ out of 1B platoon or not mark me down.

You've come a long way from wanting Reynolds released (apologies if it was really Mr. Hunter, sometimes I get you guys confused) last week to now championing him as part of a platoon that can produce at a near-Pujols level.

That indicates to me then that Reynolds job is very safe for the remainder of this year, no? next roster move has to be Gregg anyway.

He's been better offensively, and he's a better defender at 1B. So I'm not sure what you're getting at.

His K/BB ratio of 0.91 also doesn't give me the warm fuzzies.

Ahh you are right. When Mr. Hunter was advocating his release for Andino you did stand in staunch support of your position for the platoon. I commend you. My apologies.

Kris Benson did hit that HR at Shea that once which was sweet.

2012 only has 2 months left, so it is the only thing that matters. There's not a lot of future expectation to predict. At this point in the season most guys are who they are.

Mark Reynolds won't be here next year, so future expectations don't factor in.

Wilson Betemit costs 1 million dollars, and his production relative to his cost makes him likely one of the best FA acquisitions last year from a sheer value standpoint.