Sodo Oh No

Back on December 15th I made this post (before Sodo Oh No) about the disastrous M's off-season. I thought I'd update my VORP chart from that post:

          2003 Player 2003 VORP 2004 Player  2003 VORP  2004 Player  2004 VORP Proj

C         Wilson           -4   Wilson            -4    Wilson          21     

1B        Olerud         20.2   Olerud          20.2    Olerud          10

2B        Boone          75.8   Boone           75.8    Boone           24.8

3B        Bloomquist      1.1   Spezio          14.6    Spezio          17.2

SS        Guillen        24.2   Guillen         24.2    Aurilia        -12.9 

LF        Winn           25.2   Ibanez          16.3    Ibanez          13.3

CF        Cameron        28.4   Winn            25.2    Winn            -1

RF        Ichiro         35.8   Ichiro          35.8    Ichiro           9.1

DH        Edgar          58.3   Edgar           58.3    Edgar           29.5

Bench     Colbrunn        2.8   McCraken       -12.5    Hansen          10

                        267.8                  253.9                   121.0

Wow. This is a total collapse that certainly matches well with what we are seeing on the field. To me the most egregious error is the swap of Guillen for Aurilia. At the time the best anyone could argue is that we would get the same level of performace (but for $1 million more). It hasn't quite turned out that way as Guillen's current projected VORP is 87.7. The GM is paid to get moves like this right. This is a major screw up - where is the accountability?

posted by Mike @ 3:55 PM