In my points league - he is the second best SS behind Mike Young!!
Funny he's right above Tejada (who is ahving a very nice year) so I matched them up and got a good chuckle (FYI don't take this as me saying he could even wear Tejada's jock) but
Wilson 397/2/8/3
Tejada 329/2/12/0
Whats with SS this year, not saying my points league is the bench mark but check this leaderboard out
1. Young
2. Wilson
3. Tejada
4. Guillen 5. Everett
6. Lugo
7. Matsui
8. Iztruis 9. Womack
10. Clayton
Interesting discussion... why trade a guy who is having an awesome year thus far. I drafted Jeter, but quickly discovered he was not going to perform so I grabbed Wilson about 10 days back. He has done nothing but perform. I was just offered a trade for Jeter...... C. Wilson another Pit guy for Jeter. I'm leaning towards doing the deal.... J. Wilson has made Jeter expendable and C. Wilson is very valuable as a multi Posit player also having a good start. Bottom line Jeter may get his act together soon but his #'s will likely not exceed J Wilson at season end.
My prediction for Wilson right now is 305/8/55/12 for the year, which i don't think is out of line at all, and as far as Jeter getting here with that start - probably rather trade him and get some help somewhere else
As far as people saying trade him? Who are you going to get for him? Unless you are trading him to a complete idiot, right now you are not going to get much for him.
He batted over .300 during his minor league career so his BA could eventually be good over a whole year. This is only the start of his full 3rd season. One thing that sucks, his career OBP sucks (including minors). His highest seasonal OBP was .306 in 2002. And playing in Pitts he isn't going to score that many runs anyway, then add in that he doesn't get on base that much. If he can't score runs, what does he do, other than hit for avg?
You're right that he doesn't draw many walks but this gets us into the same argument that we have had in the cafe a number of times regarding Soriano - how much do you devalue a guy for striking out and not taking a BB.
In a roto league that counts OBP or runs you will have to devalue Wilson a little bit. I do believe that his OBP will improve this year. He is currently at .408, not terrific but not terrible.
In a points league his OBP will make a negligible difference to his value unless there is some weird formula for points.
Do you remember Gonzalez last year? Torrid in the first few months, but medicore over the course of year. This will be Wilson. He is not a top tier SS, he is not even anywhere near a top 10 SS.
He is a good plug in guy, but I can't believe some idiot traded Renteria for him and White--I would have protested the hell out of that trade.
stumpak wrote:Do you remember Gonzalez last year? Torrid in the first few months, but medicore over the course of year. This will be Wilson. He is not a top tier SS, he is not even anywhere near a top 10 SS.
Why do you say this? Just a gut feeling or are you going on something more?
What in his history has indicated that he perform at a top 10 level? The point I am making is that every year some guy who has never really done anything has a hot start, and people get very excited and start dropping proven players for him, and then he fizzles out. He has a career .252 batting avg and 18 measley HRs over 1800 ABs--what possibly can make you think that over the course of a full season you can expect anything better than .270/15 HRs? Even that would be a huge leap in performance out of the blue, and last I checked, that is not top 10 SS territory.
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by JOEG » Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:49 am 
