July 29, 2009, at 7:52 pm
Freddy Sanchez has been traded for Tim Alderson. Alderson was ranked the #4 prospect in the Giants’ system by Baseball America. Keith Law recently ranked the 20-year-old Alderson the 26th-best prospect in all of baseball. Reports also say the Pirates are contributing no money in the deal.
I can’t get over what a horrible, horrible trade this was for the Giants. Apparently common sense day is over. The Giants desperately needed offense but Freddy Sanchez isn’t putting them over the top.
Sanchez is hitting .296/.334/.442 on the year. His line is likely inflated by his .343 BABIP. Sanchez is however having a very good year defensively. He saves 6.3 Runs/150 games according to Ultimate Zone Rating. All in all statistically Sanchez is a 2.2 Win player using win shares. And really how much does that help the Giants considering Juan Urbie was playing somewhat respectably. The value of Sanchez over Uribe is only 1 win.
Considering the Pirates would have gladly traded Sanchez as a salary dump the fact that they could get a top prospect and not pay his salary is amazing. For the Giants it’s totally incomprehensible. If the Giants offered Alderson for Adam Dunn I think the Nationals happily do it. Dunn is the type of bat that could make an impact, Sanchez is not.
Terrible Brian Sabean just terrible.
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