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Submitted by M's Watcher on

Scutaro could be in the mix at three positions where he could start and hold his own.  He is insurance at 3B if Tui isn't ready out of spring training, injury insurance at SS for Wilson (we'd never need that, right?), and insurance if Lopez is traded in the off-season and Ack isn't ready for the bigs at 2B.  If any of these are likely, I wouldn't mind having Scutaro.

As for how much he'll cost, make the Sox or Dodgers overpay for the precious SS commodity with the mediocre bat and a glove.  We still need the big bats.  I'd rather we overpay for that, or better yet, Jack can take advantage of the economic fire sales for talented big bats that other teams can no longer afford.

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Why do you like the idea of siging Scutaro? He's the ultimate Civic, he'd block one of our best prospects and we'd give up a first round draft pick to have the honor of watching him try to get the ball out of the infield. That's the antithesis of a Stars and Scrubs approach and it isn't appealing in theory or in this particular case. If we were a 90-win team with a giant hole at one position it would be fine. But the M's are an 85-win team that needs to either add an impact player or roll the dice on a talented youngster. Going for certain mediocrity isn't likely to get the team to the playoffs but it could muck things up roster wise. He's seems like exactly the type of player you would insist the team pass on.

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Submitted by M's Watcher on

I'd rather have an .800 OPS Tui at 3B, Wilson for 150+ games at SS, and Ackley force his way into the lineup out of spring training, but I can't count on any of them to happen.  The most likely scenario is that Scutaro finds a team needing a SS badly and is willing to pay accordingly.  That won't be us.

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Submitted by jemanji on

Scutaro (1) wants to play SS and (2) from the buyers' POV's ... he's worth far more as a SS, especially this winter.

Hard to imagine him not signing somewhere as a SS.  Teams need that.

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Submitted by jemanji on

I'm *not* in favor of signing Scutaro.  I'd play Tui. 

SSI keeps warning the googly-eyed-mad-in-love ... that this administration is too biased towards defense, and too biased towards "I'll believe it when I see it" on ML-ready blue chippers.

I would absoLUTEly save money on Moore, Saunders, and Tui all 3, if it meant I could accomplish something like Lackey, Dunn, and Harden.

..............

Scutaro at SS, was the earlier conversation, and in that context he could be moving a 30 or even 20 position to 55-60.  That's big.

Scutaro at 3B, for 1-2 years, is is contrary to Stars & Scrubs but moving a 35-40 position to 50-60 (due to glovework) brings clear advantages.  Those are outlined above.

If Scutaro takes over at 3B for a year or two, I'll console myself that a 2009 hole has been upgraded, and that Tui might be a super-sub on the infield.

Would rather have a Dunn or Pena or somesuch.

 

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Submitted by DrNaka on

If you look at RE24

2009 15.29

2008 0.85

2007 -4.77

If you look at REW ad WPA you see he has better REW than WPA.

So he is a Z type batter but he really was super only in 2009.

I think he is just average (or 2WAR) player for 2010 and 2011 costing the same value at 8mil/y.

Not a bargain....

And not worth a draft pick.

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Submitted by jemanji on

If we are talking $8M, in this market, I don't want Scutaro for 3B as my big offensive move.  I'm trying to find a way to deal kids to bring on Crawford, Granderson, Dunn, etc. for similar payroll impact.

At SS, when the alternatives were Ronny Cedeno and JOSH Wilson, $8M was a different conversation.

The alternative here is Matt Tuiasosopo, and Tui is everything you want in a young developmental player.

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