The Good...
The White Sox signed Jermaine Dye to a two year, $10.15 million dollar contract, which pays Jermaine $4mil in 2005, $5mil in 2006, and has a team option for $6mil in 2007 (or a buyout of $1.15mil.) Dye took this contract despite higher offers from other teams after he verbally agreed to terms with the White Sox. Way to go! I like the guy already. Let's see if I still like him after I look at his 2004 stats...
| BA | HR | RBI | R | SB | BB | K | OBP | SLG | BA/RISP |
| .265 | 23 | 80 | 87 | 4 | 49 | 128 | .329 | .464 | .240 |
Now, normally I'd look at his 3-year stats, but Dye's missed 153 games over the last three seasons, and 2004 was the only season in which he was relatively healthy, thus giving him the label of "Injury-Plagued," (and not "Injury-Prone") by the Chicago Tribune. (By the way Trib, I can't wait for this year's version of "Prior Watch...")
Anyway, let's start the analysis by saying that Dye is not Magglio Ordonez. If healthy (and we can't assume Maggs will be healthy ever again) Dye couldn't hold a candle to Maggs' production. His career RCAA is 5. Magglio's career RCAA is 143. Huge difference... But Dye is a servicable stopgap until Ryan Sweeney or Brian Anderson arrive (or by some miracle Joe Borchard learns how to hit a curveball.) His defense in RF is slightly better than Maggs', and the saving of $10 million in the payroll gives the team some long-term financial flexibility they wouldn't have had with Maggs.
What bothers me about Dye is his 128 K's. I'm sure Billy Beane wasn't too happy about that either. He needs to learn some plate discipline, badly. He should be drawing about 80 walks a year, and cutting those K's to below 100.
But the alarming stat... .240 BA with Runners in Scoring Position. EGADS!!! Dude, Jermaine, you've got to do better than that. Remember, the Sox were second best in the majors last year in BA/RISP. The only problem was they were second worst in getting runners on base in the first place. So, Jermaine, help your team, help yourself; draw some walks and get those hits with men on 2nd and 3rd.
Still, getting a player of Dye's caliber as cheaply as Kenny Williams did, I have to give kudos to the GM. And Dye earns bonus points for being a classy guy and honoring a verbal agreement to the White Sox. Good signing.
posted by Rick @ 1:15 PM
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