Post#24 » by tsherkin » Sat May 12, 2012 1:09 pm
Getting rid of Lind for basically anything that doesn't poison our budget with a horrible long-term contract would be good; the specifics aren't super-important, though there isn't much incentive to rush a transaction just to get him out of town.
I dislike Lind's presence on the roster, but AA is a pretty solid GM, so we'll see how things go.
It's just frustrating that one season in over a half-decade have anchored him to our team. Bleh. And worse, it's really hard to look back and go "well, you shouldn't have" to that contract because we'd been clamoring for power for ages and then found it. The Jays would have been crucified for not retaining Lind. Thing is, though, isn't his contract nothing but options after next season? We talk about the size and length of his deal, but I could swear 2014 and onward are all team options with reasonably cheap buy-outs.
So we'd effectively be parlaying a contract that's $5M next year and that's it, which is far less horrific than we've been implying through this conversation.
EDIT: Didn't realize his baBIP was .323 in 2009. Heh. Only year he was ever positive-WAA, basically the only year he was ever positive WAR, only year he was at or above league-average OBP, one of two years (08 the other) he was at or above league-average OPS... So many indicators that he was going to regress. Striking out at a much higher rate these past 2+ seasons, atypical gap power that year, magical outlier HR/AB.
Ugh. Why do I look at your history, Lind? You make me SMH every time. Bleh.