Giants sign Edgar Renteria for two years, $18.5MM.
Analysis: Law, Szymborski, Watson.
San Francisco's shortstops hit .228/.295/.281 last year, so there's certainly a lot of room for improvement here.
Renteria has been absurdly inconsistent over the last five years, and has famously fared much better in the NL. It'd be silly to expect the 33-year old Renteria to return to his 2007 form, when he hit .332/.390/.470 with the Braves, but his Marcel projection is a solid .285/.345/.417. That would represent about a 35 run upgrade over the offensive production the Giants got from SS last year.
He will give some of that back on defense, as he was -9 in +/- last year, and was 7th out of 8 qualifying AL shortstops in RZR. Overall he's probably 20-25 runs above replacement on offense and a -5 to -10 on D; about 1.5 wins above replacement is right in line with $9.25MM/year (if a bit on the expensive side).
Also worth noting, and considering in the rating below, is that the Tigers didn't offer Renteria arbitration, so San Francisco won't lose any draft picks. Sabean is learning, at least. Now let's just hope, for his sake, that this isn't true.
The Ellis signing's average rating ended up at 6.7.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Giants Sign Renteria
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Stan Francisco? Was that a typo, or am I just missing some inside joke?
I am going to compensate for the hit in traffic that I am going to take from not posting picks by making sure that "my name" resides in your recent comments section at all times.
Dammit. The link takes you back to the comments section.
I guess I'll just have to resort to soliciting people to add me to their blog roll.
Stan Francisco? Was that a typo, or am I just missing some inside joke?
The first one.
Supposedly Renteria showed up out of shape to start the season, and wasn't actually in shape until July - this is supported by his numbers. Maybe his defense will rebound a bit as well.
One can justify this based on the fact that A) SS was such a black hole last year and B) With that pitching they might as well take a flyer on any offense they can scrounge up.
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