Angel Pagan

[fromthestretch]

I typically check baseball-reference every morning to skim box scores or see the top performances from the previous day. Earlier this season they started listing the top-5 players in WAR in each league. Angel Pagan is fourth in the NL in WAR. Angel Pagan. Fourth in the NL. In WAR.

 

His last year with the Cubs, I thought he was a serviceable fourth outfielder, but he's really taken it up a notch since rejoining the Mets organization.

[inari]

This is not meant to suggest I thought he'd do this - but I always loved Angel Pagan.

[TruffleShuffle]

i mentioned that in the "other games thread" yesterday. he's basically been playing at borderline all star level for a year now.

 

i didn't think he'd be this good but he was a plus defender in cf and slugged .439 in 2006 at age 25. i'm not sure why we gave him away for nothing.

[Sammy Sofa]

i mentioned that in the "other games thread" yesterday. he's basically been playing at borderline all star level for a year now.

 

i didn't think he'd be this good but he was a plus defender in cf and slugged .439 in 2006 at age 25. i'm not sure why we gave him away for nothing.

 

Colitis.

[imb]

yeah, he kept [expletive] his pants on the plane

[Mark Priors Calves]

beltran

[MembersOnlyJacket]

i mentioned that in the "other games thread" yesterday. he's basically been playing at borderline all star level for a year now.

 

i didn't think he'd be this good but he was a plus defender in cf and slugged .439 in 2006 at age 25. i'm not sure why we gave him away for nothing.

 

Colitis.

 

The Cubs have a history of making trades for the sake of making trades. This was one. I don't know if the two losers the Cubs got are doing anything at this point.

 

As for colitis, anyone who knows someone who's suffered from it knows they are some of the toughest people you'll find. Treatment for some people is on the level of cancer patients short of chemotherapy. I'm not surprised Pagan is successful in MLB now that his doctors found him the right treatment.

 

This is a good case of why the Cubs suck at a lot of things involving winning baseball games. They do not do enough before they make a move. They just make moves.

[Sammy Sofa]

i mentioned that in the "other games thread" yesterday. he's basically been playing at borderline all star level for a year now.

 

i didn't think he'd be this good but he was a plus defender in cf and slugged .439 in 2006 at age 25. i'm not sure why we gave him away for nothing.

 

Colitis.

 

The Cubs have a history of making trades for the sake of making trades. This was one. I don't know if the two losers the Cubs got are doing anything at this point.

 

As for colitis, anyone who knows someone who's suffered from it knows they are some of the toughest people you'll find. Treatment for some people is on the level of cancer patients short of chemotherapy. I'm not surprised Pagan is successful in MLB now that his doctors found him the right treatment.

 

This is a good case of why the Cubs suck at a lot of things involving winning baseball games. They do not do enough before they make a move. They just make moves.

 

This wasn't a trade just to make a trade. He was traded because there was the opinion (from the Cubs' medical staff and Pagan's doctors) that there was a good chance he'd miss much of 2008, and he had already lost a ton of weight and strength (as his paltry 2008 slugging shows). It's great that he's rebounded, but he really didn't have a role on the 2008 club with the way his health had gone.