Mike Carp requests trade
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Not intending to crap on Carp, but I am requesting his trade too. How about him and Badenhop to Milwaukee for this guy.
http://reviewingthebrew.com/2014/07/24/top-prospect-update-6-mitch-haniger/
http://reviewingthebrew.com/2014/07/24/top-prospect-update-6-mitch-haniger/
Not that we'd get much for him, but this doesn't help. Might increase the chances he's part of a larger package though.
I've been requesting Carp to hit a home run all season but he still has zero. Carp has one homer in the last calendar year. One. For a guy who can't run and can't play much defense, that is horrible. I liked the Carp pick up last year and thought he would be a solid bat for years, but he has just not done the job at all this year. If he leaves it means we'll probably have to DFA him.
Here are just a few of the players with more homers than Carp this year:
Tuffy Gosewich, Endy Chavez, Kevin Frandsen, Aaron Hicks, Grant Green, Carlos Pena, Skip Schumaker, Bobby Abreu, Ben Revere, Ender Inciarte, Wil Nieves, Wilmer Flores, Nyjer Morgan, Abraham Almonte, Jake Goebbert, Willie Bloomquist, Reid Brignac, Sandy Leon, Travis Wood, Madison Bumgarner, Jordan Lyles, Ian Kennedy, Mike Minor, Gio Gonzalez, and Mike Leake. (The last 7 are pitchers, by the way.)
Sam Fuld has more HRs this year alone than Carp his hit in the last 365 days.
Carp should be glad he even has a job in the majors. He didn't have one when we picked him up, and if he gets dumped he might have to take a minor league deal.
Here are just a few of the players with more homers than Carp this year:
Tuffy Gosewich, Endy Chavez, Kevin Frandsen, Aaron Hicks, Grant Green, Carlos Pena, Skip Schumaker, Bobby Abreu, Ben Revere, Ender Inciarte, Wil Nieves, Wilmer Flores, Nyjer Morgan, Abraham Almonte, Jake Goebbert, Willie Bloomquist, Reid Brignac, Sandy Leon, Travis Wood, Madison Bumgarner, Jordan Lyles, Ian Kennedy, Mike Minor, Gio Gonzalez, and Mike Leake. (The last 7 are pitchers, by the way.)
Sam Fuld has more HRs this year alone than Carp his hit in the last 365 days.
Carp should be glad he even has a job in the majors. He didn't have one when we picked him up, and if he gets dumped he might have to take a minor league deal.
Carp will be on waivers on August 1, along with most of the team, and then perhaps we'll find out if anybody actually values Carp, but until then I don't want Cherington wasting his time to accommodate an underperforming batter at a low-priority position.
Not that it really makes a difference, but our friend Nick C stated that Carp cannot officially request a trade according to the collective bargining agreement. He also stated that Carp did not exactly bolt into Ben Charington's office and throw things to demand a trade. It was more a "request" than a "demand" and done in a respectful manner.Bone Chips said:
If he goes on waivers right now, does anyone put in a claim? Besides the Yankees, of course, who seem to have a crush on anyone who's worn a Sox uniform (the Reverse Mendoza).
I can't say I blame the guy. They've barely played him recently, and at 28, he's running out of chances to try to catch on as a starter and maybe get a sweet payday at some point. It isn't going to be in Boston any time soon. He probably wouldn't be any worse than say, Garrett Jones, or whoever is playing 1B for Miami these days. Maybe if Ike Davis didn't exist you could see him in Pittsburgh?
It's tough. Maybe he can Brandon Moss his way into a lineup at some point, but most teams either have guys who are better or guys who are younger or both. I still think with regular playing time he could probably put up a 110 OPS+ with terrible defense. Miami seems like a good fit, but he might even be too expensive for them since he's not making the minimum. Not that they'd give up anything for him anyway.
It's tough. Maybe he can Brandon Moss his way into a lineup at some point, but most teams either have guys who are better or guys who are younger or both. I still think with regular playing time he could probably put up a 110 OPS+ with terrible defense. Miami seems like a good fit, but he might even be too expensive for them since he's not making the minimum. Not that they'd give up anything for him anyway.
Is there any real evidence that Mike Carp is a terrible first baseman? I would think the sample sizes are too small to say anything definitive, and the fact that he's athletic enough to at least pretend to play the outfield would suggest to me that he wouldn't, in fact, have terrible range for a first baseman. I don't recall too many times where there were bounced throws to first and my reaction was, "Napoli would have had it," either.
Plympton91 said:
I think you're right that we can't really look at fielding stats for him, but he just looks bad to me, which maybe isn't the most persuasive evidence. I think Napoli scoops throws noticably better, and seems generally more athletic and sure-handed, but you may be right we just haven't seen enough of Carp to know. I certainly haven't seen Carp do anything more than routine over there, though.
Even if he's merely below average or mediocre, I'm not sure it changes much for his ability to get a deal in the near future. I'm not trying to put him down - I do hope he gets a chance somewhere. He seems like a decent enough dude, and there are worse (or at least, similarly talented) starting 1B in the MLB.
I agree, and FWIW what the small sample (970 career innings) numbers say and what my eyes tell me are the same thing: he's not a terrible defensive 1B at all, just a little on the wrong side of average. With last year's offense that's a very viable player. With this year's, not so much. He needs a chance to prove that the truth (at a minimum) lies in between.Plympton91 said: