What I like best about the Mynci is the collective depth of experience. The core group of managers has been playing together for more than six years. I won it all the year my daughter was born. She just turned five.
There’s nothing like the humbling notice that a manager as obsessive as yourself just picked up a free agent you have never heard of. RFP does this regularly. He just signed Trevor Cahill. I checked Cahill against Baseball Crank’s ESWL and all I found was this (my emphasis):
The A’s perennially get more Win Shares from players I don’t include in the preseason EWSL charts than almost anybody… Of course, their young rotation could have substantial up- or down-side, especially a volatile power arm like Gonzalez or the highly touted Cahill and Anderson (although Gallagher may be the best bet for a step forward of the group).
It’s not obsessiveness so much as desperation. Since Morrow moved from rotation to closer, I’ve been at a loss. My first choice was Jonathan Sanchez, but he was scooped up while I stupidly and vainly waited for Sheets to hit the DL. Now he’s available, but no more attractive than my current flavor: David Purcey. Which high-upside guy will prove to be stable? Who knows? And so I’ll continue to take a look at the projections for youngsters on teams like Oakland.
This season’s exaggerated Batters’ Head Start is complicating matters, as you well know (see Lincecum and Slowey). Why just now, 2009′s best pitcher through two starts, Josh Johnson, coughed up five earned runs in the first inning. Time to give Cahill’s agent a call.
Posted by by Lehho Rebassoo on April 18, 2009 at 12:34 pm