Updating the Trades

Its been a couple of weeks since we checked on the Miguel Tejada and Erik Bedard trades.

	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	OPS
Tejada	191	39	65	15	2	5	35	8	.891
Scott	129	14	35	11	0	4	16	14	.799

	G	IP	W	L	K	ERA	WHIP
Albers	16	30.1	2	1	17	2.08	0.989
Sarfate	18	19.0	2	1	22	3.79	1.632

To the Mariners

	G	IP	W	L	Sv	K	ERA	WHIP
Bedard	7	41.2	3	2	0	37	3.24	1.224

To the Orioles

	G	IP	W	L	Sv	K	ERA	WHIP
Sherrill	21	21.0	1	0	17	16	3.43	1.095
Mickolio(AA)	15	24.1	0	1	1	22	4.07	1.480
Tillman (AA)	9	42.1	5	0	0	20	2.76	1.181
Butler (A)	7	34.0	1	2	0	26	3.97	1.294

	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	OPS
Jones	155	16	40	9	2	2	15	4	.682

Tejada's power number have dropped considerably since we last looked at the trade. His OPS has fallen back under .900. While he is hitting a cool .340, his low walk and homerun totals are keeping his OPS lower than we might think. Luke Scott, despite fewer at bats and much less eye-catching hitting stats still has a 6 BB lead on Tejada. That in and of itself doesn't mean much except that Scott has an offensive game that, at least through 2 months of the season, appears very well suited to the production of runs.

George Sherrill is making the most of his first season as a major league closer. The blog-o-sphere over Baltimore is already beginning to fill with grand strategies to trade Sherrill in July for a king's ransom. Such talk is mis-guided. Part of the process of rebuilding a team is knowing when a player on your squad is a rare commodity (a solid lefty late-inning reliever, for instance) who fits into your long-term goals. If 2010 is the Orioles goal for contending, Sherrill could certainly contribute to that cause.

One final note on Tony Butler. His performance so far in Class A Delmarva has been good but not dazzling by any means. However, one statistic in his pitching line screams for attention: a 26:5 SO to BB ratio. For every walk Butler issues, he fans 5.2 opposing hitters. Impressive.