Stewart/Dewitt swap?

[seanhopper]

According to reports out of Colorado, the Rox are interested in a swap of Ian Stewart for Dewitt. I guess if the Cubs want to give Stewart a shot, Dewitt's not a bad player to swap. However, his versatility makes him somewhat valuable--so I don't see Hoyer/Ep. doing this.

[Guest]

Oh my goodness do this immediately

[dew1679666265]

I'd really like this deal, actually. DeWitt's a nice player with some versatility and not a guy I'd support just giving away, but Stewart has the upside of a long term third base option. This would be better than giving up a pitching prospect with upside, I think.

[mul21]

According to reports out of Colorado, the Rox are interested in a swap of Ian Stewart for Dewitt. I guess if the Cubs want to give Stewart a shot, Dewitt's not a bad player to swap. However, his versatility makes him somewhat valuable--so I don't see Hoyer/Ep. doing this.

 

Why not? Baker plays all the same positions and hits lefties better. DeWitt has reverse splits if I recall, so I'd do this in a heartbeat if that's all it takes.

 

I'd still rather have Headley.

[Guest]

Link to said reports out of Colorado? Or at least a description as to where they're coming from?

[Guest]

Link to said reports out of Colorado? Or at least a description as to where they're coming from?

 

http://www.denverpost.com/rockies/ci_19453415

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Link to said reports out of Colorado? Or at least a description as to where they're coming from?

It's actually popped up in a lot of places in the last day or so.

http://www.denverpost.com/rockies/ci_19453415

[Little Slide Rooter]

May as well. Stewart has a much higher ceiling than DeWitt if he can get on track. DeWitt, on the other hand if both guys stay what they have been throughout their big league careers is a safer bet to be useful, but not enough that I could ever see him being someone that we'd really miss. Just because of Stewarts history as a top propspect, if they wanted I'd be willing to kick over Coleman or Cabrera or a miscelanious reliever like Stevens, Gaub, Caridad, or Maine as well and maybe they'll send us a low level guy. I'd be much happier opening the season with Stewart as the starting 3B and Baker as a super sub.

[Butterscup1679666578]

wait what? this is a real thing? do it right now.

[treebird]

i would definitely do this, but you do have to acknowledge that if you can trade blake dewitt for a guy straight up, there's a reason. stewart is definitely an upside play at a position of extreme need for the cubs, but he will most likely be lousy.

 

so long as we can all couch our expectations, let's do it. maybe it will work, and dewitt is about as fungible an asset as you could imagine.

[Guest]

i would definitely do this, but you do have to acknowledge that if you can trade blake dewitt for a guy straight up, there's a reason. stewart is definitely an upside play at a position of extreme need for the cubs, but he will most likely be lousy.

 

so long as we can all couch our expectations, let's do it. maybe it will work, and dewitt is about as fungible an asset as you could imagine.

 

I think there's still a couple teams(much like there's probably at least a few fans) who haven't figured out that Blake DeWitt is awful.

[Guest]

Considering I'd non-tender DeWitt anyway...yes, do it now.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

It's interesting to me how sabersavvy fans have gone from "The best indicator of future performance is past performance" a decade ago to drooling over every bad player who had a good scouting report five years ago.

[Little Slide Rooter]

i would definitely do this, but you do have to acknowledge that if you can trade blake dewitt for a guy straight up, there's a reason. stewart is definitely an upside play at a position of extreme need for the cubs, but he will most likely be lousy.

 

so long as we can all couch our expectations, let's do it. maybe it will work, and dewitt is about as fungible an asset as you could imagine.

 

I think there's still a couple teams(much like there's probably at least a few fans) who haven't figured out that Blake DeWitt is awful.

 

No, I think that most teams have pretty much figured out that he's something of an Aaron Miles or Adam Kennedy, a utility guy with a hint of pop, but looking at the contracts given to Clint Barmes and Jamey Carroll, that seems to be somewhat in demand.

[davell]

Wow. I thought this was a joke. Yes. Do it, please. And that's coming from a guy who'd rather have Headley as well.

[Little Slide Rooter]

It's interesting to me how sabersavvy fans have gone from "The best indicator of future performance is past performance" a decade ago to drooling over every bad player who had a good scouting report five years ago.

 

it's not so much drooling as wanting to take a chance if all we have to give up is something of minimal value. Best case scenrio, we end up with a long term replacement at 3rd. Worst case scenerio, we no longer have Blake DeWitt. I think that the plus heavily outweighs the minus like Prince Fielder outweighs Tony Campana.

Edited December 2, 2011 by Little Slide Rooter

[CubColtPacer]

i would definitely do this, but you do have to acknowledge that if you can trade blake dewitt for a guy straight up, there's a reason. stewart is definitely an upside play at a position of extreme need for the cubs, but he will most likely be lousy.

 

so long as we can all couch our expectations, let's do it. maybe it will work, and dewitt is about as fungible an asset as you could imagine.

 

I think there's still a couple teams(much like there's probably at least a few fans) who haven't figured out that Blake DeWitt is awful.

 

Colorado might be one of the few teams DeWitt would have decent value for. His power might play up a little bit there. He would at least be a decent bench option for them. But he has very little upside with his defense/walk/tendency to hit lots of pop up issues.

[Guest]

It's interesting to me how sabersavvy fans have gone from "The best indicator of future performance is past performance" a decade ago to drooling over every bad player who had a good scouting report five years ago.

 

It's interesting to me that you're extrapolating a poor season from Stewart into the opinion that Stewart has been an awful MLB player.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

It's interesting to me how sabersavvy fans have gone from "The best indicator of future performance is past performance" a decade ago to drooling over every bad player who had a good scouting report five years ago.

 

It's interesting to me that you're extrapolating a poor season from Stewart into the opinion that Stewart has been an awful MLB player.

 

I didn't say "awful," I said "bad." I know, I know, but the connotations are different.

 

He doesn't really have any good seasons to balance out the bad one.

[ctcf]

DO IT NOW

[Guest]

Alex Gordon has always been my comp guy with Ian Stewart. We know what Gordon did this year and that's what I'm hoping the Cubs could do for him if they brought him in. I'd love this move.

[scarey]

It's interesting to me how sabersavvy fans have gone from "The best indicator of future performance is past performance" a decade ago to drooling over every bad player who had a good scouting report five years ago.

 

It's interesting to me that you're extrapolating a poor season from Stewart into the opinion that Stewart has been an awful MLB player.

 

I didn't say "awful," I said "bad." I know, I know, but the connotations are different.

 

He doesn't really have any good seasons to balance out the bad one.

 

He's better than DeWitt though. I think that's all that needs to be said.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

[He's better than DeWitt though. I think that's all that needs to be said.

 

That's true.

 

I'm not saying I don't want Stewart and I'm not saying it's wrong. But it feels a little bit odd to see sabersavvy fans become so focused on trying to find players who have recently been bad. That sort of undervalued player has become the new trendy thing to look for, like TTO guys used to be.

[ctcf]

Seriously though, if this was actually presented to Hoyerstein, I have to believe that not accepting it means one of two things:

 

1.) Cubs are holding out hope for a better 3B, possibly Headley.

2.) DeWitt figures into their trade plans somewhere else.

 

I'm going with the former.

[javy knows my name]

Wow, this would be a steal. I'm kinda with trey, though; if Stewart can be had this cheaply, and hasn't been snatched up yet, there is likely something about him we don't know.

 

Or we're looking hard at Headley with Stewart as the backup option.