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How Jon Matlack Became David Wright

G-Fafif May 03 2011 11:47 AM

Through trades and compensation draft picks, that's how, according to the Platoon Advantage. Was keenly aware of the trade trees within this, but never connected them all the way back to Matlack. (Found via ESPN's SweetSpot.) Article links to something else that claims the Wednesday Night Massacre was just fine -- the kind of skewed/shallow conclusion one could derive by staring at WAR too long. (It would also help if the author didn't refer to GM "Paul" McDonald and pitcher Pat "Zachary".)

Edgy DC May 03 2011 12:40 PM Re: How Jon Matlack Became David Wright

Huge fallacy of folks playing around with WAR: believing trading one guy worth 7.0 for four guys worth 8.0 is a net win.

metsmarathon May 04 2011 07:21 AM Re: How Jon Matlack Became David Wright

that raises a good point. what return for a 7.0 WAR player would be considered equitable?

Edgy DC May 04 2011 07:32 AM Re: How Jon Matlack Became David Wright

Dunno, but I assume each roster spot on average produces a typical amount of WAR, enough to elevate a .250 team to a .500 team. I graphed out a very similar trade tree descending from Ed Harn and Rick Anderson once. At the time, we thought that was the longest living such tree. This is a great discovery (even from a guy who makes strange assertions about which trades worked out and which didn't for the Mets). I wonder how much Matlack DNA Wright has.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 04 2011 09:41 AM Re: How Jon Matlack Became David Wright

metsmarathon wrote: that raises a good point. what return for a 7.0 WAR player would be considered equitable? Presumably, one which improves the slots into which the returned players will step by at least 7.0 WAR (a 4.0 SS stepping in for your current replacement-level guy, plus a serviceable starting pitcher and several relievers, say).