CJ Cron

[Blarg]

I want to see him pan out so the Angels have a legitimate leadoff hitter that wrecks havoc on the basepaths. I truly don't give a rat's crap about the trade. 

[Tank]

2 hours ago, Barrett said:

Could have released Pujols and instead played Cron. But hey let's keep this retirement home open a few more years. Wasn't this the year you said Pujols was going to retire because of something? 

think about the economics of paying albert not to play and how that would affect the halos ability to bring in new players. take your time.

[floplag]

1 hour ago, Stradling said:

in a vacuum you are right.  When constructing a roster that has a short bench, where at the beginning of a season  your only back up 2nd baseman and short stop is your starting 3rd baseman, then yes, this trade was necessary.  

Not sure i see how thats an "in a vacuum" issue.  The roster was what it was at that time.  
I dont agree with where it was at that time i would have liked to have seen a few things done differently leading up to that, but its moot,.  

[stormngt]

22 hours ago, Dochalo said:

If Cron were here, they'd still have kept Albert and Valbuena.  Marte would have been the guy to go.  Cron wouldn't have had the same opportunity as he's getting now.  He'd probably be playing worse than he is now.  It wouldn't have made a huge difference from where we currently sit in the standings.  

And we wouldn't have Luis Rengifo who has a very good chance to be a solid everyday major league 2nd baseman and leadoff hitter.  

 

If Cron was here, either Marte or Valbueno wouldn't be.  Nice try though!

[stormngt]

2 hours ago, Barrett said:

Could have released Pujols and instead played Cron. But hey let's keep this retirement home open a few more years. Wasn't this the year you said Pujols was going to retire because of something? 

Comeback to reality

[Stradling]

13 minutes ago, stormngt said:

Comeback to reality

He won’t. 

[tdawg87]

33 minutes ago, stormngt said:

If Xron was here, either Marte or Valbueno wouldn't be.  Nice try though!

That's literally exactly what he said.

[mulwin444]

Too many people in this thread are sporting "Croners"... 

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

CJ hit .130 in June and .379 in July. Go figure

[Docwaukee]

5 hours ago, stormngt said:

If Cron was here, either Marte or Valbueno wouldn't be.  Nice try though!

it would have been Marte.  Valbuena is/was the LHed option for 3b and owed a lot more money.  

[Docwaukee]

4 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

That's literally exactly what he said.

no it's not.  I don't know who Xron is

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

21 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

no it's not.  I don't know who Xron is

Weren't they the Texas power company that had the big scandal causing an energy crisis and cost SoCal Edison to lose a lot of money and they couldn't afford to continue paying to change the name of Angel's stadium.

[Dick B Back]

5 hours ago, stormngt said:

If Cron was here, either Marte or Valbueno wouldn't be.  Nice try though!

If Cron was here, that would most likely mean we didn’t win the Sho-Time sweepstakes.

[Taylor]

The Angels would be at least 5 games ahead in the WC race if they still had Cron.

[Stradling]

12 minutes ago, Taylor said:

The Angels would be at least 5 games ahead in the WC race if they still had Cron.

You “spelled” 15 wrong

[Dick B Back]

Mang would have retired voluntarily for the good of the team if they still had Cron.

[Stradling]

Just looking at Cron’s numbers vs Albert’s numbers for this year.  They are pretty damn close.  Albert has obviously hit into more double plays, two more than Cron, but Cron has struck out 103 times where Albert, per usual hasn’t struck out much, only 54 times.  Albert grades out better defensively according to dWar.  They have the same batting average, Cron has a better OBP.  The difference comes in the OPS.  Cron has a total of 11 more total bases, 3 more homers and 14 more walks.  Cron has a 1.4 WAR and Albert has a 1.0 WAR.  Cron is basically Albert who can beat out a ground ball to SS when the SS is playing 10 feet on the outfield grass.