Liked the Estrada trade; Oscar Villareal has a chance to be a contributor, and Estrada was nothing special behind the plate, but the Edgar Renteria swap will hurt. The Braves are paying roughly 60% of the remainder of his deal, which takes him from “outrageously overpriced” to merely “overpriced”. The cult of personality that surrounds Renteria is amazing. His defense was atrocious last year, and I refuse to believe that it’s entirely the Boston media’s fault. Plus, he’s not the hitter conventional wisdom seems to think. People think he merely struggled the last two years, when in fact his career stats are pretty darn close to what he did the last two seasons, and given his supposed age of 30 (I’ve always believed Renteria’s older than that, though I freely admit I have no proof to back that up), it’s not likely that he’s going to suddenly get better. For this, they gave up a top 10 prospect in Andy Marte. They’ve also lost Kyle Farnsworth, Julio Franco and Rafael Furcal, and aside from the shaky Renteria trade, haven’t done much to replace them. Meanwhile, their chief rivals, the Mets, have advanced leaps and bounds.
I give them a D- so far.
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