Why on earth are the Redsox trading away 2007 World Series MVP Mike Lowell? We're paying him and Julio Lugo a combined $18 million dollars to play on other teams. What did we get for our .280 20/80 guy? The 3rd best catching prospect in the Texas Rangers system. A now 25 year old who has struggled in AAA since 2008. His numbers for Rookie league, A and AA were phenominal, but he has yet to figure how to hit AAA pitchers. In the Redsox organization there are 2 catchers in their top 20 prospects, with Luis Exposito nearly cracking the top 10, this trade doesnt seem to make sense to either side.
Texas moved Michael Young to 3rd base because of the emergence of Elvis Andrus, and they have uberprospect Justin Smoak waiting to reach the show, granted I'm not sure how far away he is in terms of skill, but with Chris Davis currently manning first base, where would Lowell play? His bat, albeit better than Andruw Jones last year, is still not the prototypical DH. He may be a decent bat, but it'd play much better at 3rd. Platooning him and Davis may be what the Rangers do. But what would this move do for the Redsox current plans?
Would we shift over Kevin Youkilis, and play Casey Kotchman at first? Would we sign Adrian Beltre? Would we sign Miguel Tejada? Who knows. But a good clubhouse guy with an .800 on base percentage with $9 million dollars I guess is the equivelancy of a 25 year old underachieving AAA catcher.
Maybe this move will yield a better result. Maybe packaging Casey Kotchman, Max Ramirez, and some other minor leaguers for a big bat like Adrian Gonzalez, or for power pitchers Josh Johnson or Roy Halladay.
In Theo we trust?
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