March 26, 2010

Red Sox get Frandsen

The Giants trade Kevin Frandsen to the Red Sox, despite San Francisco being short an infielder at the moment. Rob Neyer sums up the situation:

Frandsen was run out of San Francisco because he’s not much of a fielder. He’s been brought to Boston because, as utility players go, he’s a pretty good hitter.

Who’s right about Frandsen? I’ve got my opinion, which is heavily influenced by the standings these last five years. As we saw this morning, though, the Giants are engaged in a search for Emmanuel Burriss’s (temporary) replacement … and yet they just traded a perfectly adequate replacement to the Red Sox for three sacks of baseline chalk and four pouches of Big League Chew.

I must be missing something.

No, Rob is missing nothing. The Giants do not understand small sample sizes or how to projection minor league players into the majors. The Red Sox do both quite well.

4 thoughts on “Red Sox get Frandsen

  1. Pete S.

    I beg to differ. Frandsen is clearly inferior to IFs Sandoval, Sanchez, Renteria, DeRosa, Uribe, Velez, and Burris, and has a corrosive attitude to boot. He’s fragile, and been up and down since 2006 without much success. He’s a local boy, so I’m glad they traded him instead of releasing him, but clearly his time here was up.

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  2. hilarie

    Frandsen is not as good as Sandoval, but 3b isn’t the issue. Not as good as Renteria, Uribe, Burriss, Velez? None of them are good. (Do not bring up Uribe’s outlier year in 2009; not gonna happen again.) He’s at least on par. And not as good as Sanchez? There is absolutely no evidence on the subject. We don’t know what the remains of Freddy Sanchez can do. Is Frandsen better than the Sanchez we know? Obviously.

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