POTD Miguel Olivo - TWO THUMBS WAY UP
Q. What's the case against Miguel Olivo?
A. The case against Olivo is the proverbial "I just yakked in my coffee cup ..." humor. For seven colors of the rainbow on this theme, see our homeys at MC.
Yo' GM is so stupid that...
- He got fired from the M&M factory for throwing out the W's
- He put a quarter in the parking meter at Royal Brougham and lost a day waiting for the gumball
- When a Fangraphs editor asked him to "find X," he circled it with a red pen ... on his monitor
- He saw a picture of TopCat wearing a dynamite vest, but refused to toss a match
- He just ralphed $7M for a catcher who bats .091 at Safeco
Y'know Dr. D loves yer, but yer whiffed on this one like Miguel Olivo whalin' at a 97 fastball.
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Q. What's the case for Miguel Olivo?
A. That he's a $10M catcher that we're going to pay $3M.
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Q. Miguel Olivo. A ten million dollar catcher. Now we know thou hast a demon.
A. I have not a demon, but I honor fangraphs, and ye do dishonor me.
Sung to the mellow tones of Slash's second riff on Sweet Child, here are Olivo's last three years' worth of values per Fangraphs:
- 2010: $12,900,000 (read it and weep, my friend. Jack did)
- 2009: $9,000,000
- 2008: $4,800,000
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Q. Under what conceivable school of creative accounting / tax evasion could Miguel Olivo possibly have a plus offensive value?
A. Miguel Olivo is a league-average hitter and a league-excellent fielder, much like Franklin Gutierrez is a league-average hitter and a league-excellent fielder. It used to be (ca. 2009) that this kind of player was the Ultimate Seattle Blog-O-Sphere Ballplayer.
See that? Put Guti in camouflage and your instinctive reaction, before you remember your training, is to hurl :- )
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Q. Miguel Olivo is a league-average hitter?
A. League-mediocre, ya. He has improved. His last three years, his OPS+ is 96. And no, that's not because of Colorado.
Miguel was always an 85 hitter, and at age 29 he jelled, typically for a catcher. He had a solid 90, and at age 30 he had a 103 in Kansas City.
Last year, at age 31, he made it three years running, with a 92 OPS+.
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