Luis Ayala
Friday, February 20, 2009
This is just a quick one. On Wednesday the Twins finalized their deal with Luis Ayala. In order to make room for him on the 40 man roster they waived Bobby Korecky. Korecky, a 28yo minor league veteran, was quickly snapped up by the Arizona Diamondbacks.
This bothers me for two reasons:
First it isn't obviuos that Ayala is even better than Korecky. He is on the downside of his career and we are paying him $1.3m or so this season. Korecky would have cost us the minimum this year and next and not much more the year after that. And as he is younger so those future years are worth something (he shouldn't regress too much) while the Ayala deal is strictly for this season. That adds up to me thinking Korecky is probably a more valuable asset than Ayala.
The second reason it bothers me me is that they kept Drew Butera on the 40man roster instead of Korecky. Butera is the 5th catcher on the 40 man roster and his career minor league OPS is .625. And that is at levels AA and lower. WTF? How is he more valuable than a ML ready reliever?? I don't care how good he is defensively, that doesn't make any sense at all.
Posted bySL__72 at 11:47 AM
Labels: Bobby Korecky, Drew Butera, Luis Ayala