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Regarding the Jack Cust Interest

Jerry Crasnick reported this nugget earlier:

The Rays have expressed some interest in Cust, but probably can't make a move until they trade Pat Burrell.

You can sum this interest up in two points:

1) Due diligence.

2) Making the Cubs nervous.

Cust is defenseless, slow, and on the wrong side of 30 for someone with old player skills. For whatever reason, his power absolutely faded in 2009 and combined with an increase in price tag and a number of similar options, the A's felt Cust was no longer worthy of tendering arbitration. All told, he's not a horrible option at DH if the Rays have a non-Cubs taker for Burrell and simply dump the one year left on the contract. Cust is certainly going to make fewer dollars in 2010 and barring a collapse should be an above average hitter.

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If trading Burrell to a non-cub team free’s up space for Cust, and say Escobar, then by all means do it. I think we need some fake Burrell to Giants rumors to help Mr. Hendry make up his mind on how much he’s willing to eat on Bradley’s deal.

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by Tommy Rancel on Dec 17, 2009 5:34 PM EST via mobile reply actions  

My sources just sent me this little nugget
There is a mystery team in the NL showing interest in Pat Burrell

I'm a writer.

by Andy Hellicksonstine on Dec 17, 2009 5:37 PM EST up reply actions  

I would rather have the follow players rather than Mr. Cust...

Garret Anderson, Rick Ankiel, Garrett Atkins, Rocco Baldelli, Aaron Boone, Hank Blalock, Russell Branyan, Coco Crisp, Johnny Damon, Ryan Garko, Eric Hinske, Austin Kearns, Chad Tracy, Randy Winn, and Dmitri Young…

Blah!

by thebaddancingraysfan on Dec 17, 2009 6:30 PM EST reply actions  

Why?

It can’t be strikeouts if you’re listing Branyan.

by R.J. Anderson on Dec 17, 2009 6:49 PM EST up reply actions  

you'd be better off with sonnanstine than 1/2 the players you listed

Dmitri Young doesn’t even want Dmitri Young.

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by Tommy Rancel on Dec 17, 2009 6:50 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

I never said I liked HALF of the players

I just said I would have the following players then Cust. I think Cust is a VERY stupid idea. give the at bats to willy aybar or Ben Zobrist, and keep the DH spot open for someone the Rays might pick up in late July.

Who knows maybe Burrell wakes up and realizes, “oh no, I just sucked for a whole season.” Who knows maybe we’ll get lucky.

Blah!

by thebaddancingraysfan on Dec 17, 2009 9:35 PM EST up reply actions  

you had me at dump Burrell

but I would want to sign Kelvim Escobar and use the DH slot to split Zobrist, Joyce, Puffy and Brignac all over the place.

Sounded dirtier than I wanted.

Fire and Ice: Rafael Soriano and J.P Howell.......with their side kick Grant the aussie Balfour!

by joeybw on Dec 17, 2009 8:33 PM EST up reply actions  

No DH split

especially with the young players you mentioned. Love to see Brignac get 300 AB’s in 2010 but probably won’t happen unless someone gets hurt or if Maddon has had it with Burrell and chooses between Aybar, Brignac, Kapler (NO) and Rodriquez as DH later in the season.

by rickrays on Dec 17, 2009 8:53 PM EST up reply actions  

Whats wrong with Kapler DH'ing against lefties sometimes?

Over the last three years he has a .957OPS versus lefties and ~.400wOBA

His 09’ BABIP looks pretty unlucky too.

by twenty5psi on Dec 17, 2009 9:35 PM EST up reply actions  

makes sense

--Gerald Wallace is the best player the Bobcats will have..... EVER
--Someone should slap Larry Brown and bring him back to reality..

by raysfan81 on Dec 17, 2009 9:52 PM EST up reply actions  

Jack Cust, Kelly Shoppach?

Are the Rays trying to shatter the MLB team K total this year?

by sternfan1 on Dec 17, 2009 9:54 PM EST reply actions  

It's clearly the new market inefficiency.

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by Tommy Rancel on Dec 17, 2009 10:44 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

We wouldn't ground into very many double plays.

Outs are bad, doesn’t matter what form they are in.

I wonder if there is any correlation between a high-K rate team and offensive variance(hot/cold streaks).

by twenty5psi on Dec 17, 2009 11:44 PM EST up reply actions  

So 5.7% of the time it sucks, that's the number of opportunities/total PA over MLB in 2009

MLB struck out at a 15.8% clip in those scenarios. The Rays were slightly higher in both at 6.3% of all PA were in that situation, while they struck out in that situation 18.8% of the time. As a team, the Rays struck out 19.7% of their PA’s on the year. It seems they were doing a better job in that situation than normal.

I'm a writer.

by Andy Hellicksonstine on Dec 18, 2009 11:46 AM EST up reply actions  

Getting back to Kapler to DH if Burrell poops out

Gabe had one amazing month in June but other than that not much from him. The obvious choice on the roster is Aybar to take over for Burrell. Mixing say a Rodriquez and Brignac might sound good stat wise but not good if your goal is to develop them into everyday players. I’m a big Brignac fan and have faith the Rays will get him into games in 2010 like the way Zobrist got into play in 2008.

by rickrays on Dec 17, 2009 11:56 PM EST reply actions  

Brignac should never DH.

He’s the best fielder on the team.

by rglass44 on Dec 18, 2009 9:25 AM EST up reply actions  

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