Comments on: Nick Swisher

By: mccombe_35

mccombe_35 — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:24:56 +0000

If Swisher stays healthy (getting tired of having to add this every time) & hits 25 HRs & drives in 85 with that .250 / .375 line I like the move for the White Sox. I’m almost always for giving up prospects for proven major league players - & usually get ripped on for that opinion.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:38:29 +0000

Well, don’t rely too much on what a book from a few years ago has Beane saying about Swisher (although I certainly had the same initial thought.) A lot has changed since then. Beane may think Swisher has hit his ceiling. Or, with Swisher’s good performance, he may feel that the team is better served with prospects than paying Swisher’s arbitration-eligible salary over the next few years. Plus, don’t forget that Oakland got Chicago’s TWO TOP prospects in this deal. If this were the Red Sox dealing Jacoby Ellsbury and Clay Buchholz, or the Yankees dealing Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes, you might not be so shocked. The ChiSox prospects might be lower on the radar but it doesn’t mean that they are necessarily less talented.

By: Jgeller

Jgeller — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:20:55 +0000

This trade is shocking to me, as one of the things I got out of Moneyball was that Billy Beane LOVED Swisher. The Conspiracy Theorist in me has a…….conspiracy theory. In Moneyball it said that Beane’s thoughts about Swisher could be misconstruted as thoughts on a baseball ghost: his former Mets Minor League teammate Lenny Dykstra. Dykstra was implicated in the Mitchell Report, and a little bit of me wonders if that had anything to do with this Swisher trade.