Let's Play GM: Corey Hart for Franklin Gutierrez

Hacker in the above should’ve been like this: hacker. Apologies to all.

And assume that he will be better than he was last year. I think he’ll be close to his 2007 numbers again next year. I certainly am not guessing he is in for a Jeff Franceour-like dropoff. (Namedrop: My spanish class partner in school is cousins with Franceour)

..which I don’t think they do, then it’s a good idea.

Ideally, you trade Hart for a better pitcher and then get a guy like Gutierrez to take Hart’s place for something less, because his GM undervalues defense. That’s how you find inefficiencies; however I think Shapiro is smart enough to realize how important defense is.

I personally wouldn’t do this trade because Hart has been a better defender in the past as well as a much better hitter. But I wouldn’t mind trading him and finding a replacement RF that produces similarly.

You can’t really compare UZR/150 to VORP, because VORP is cumulative. You have to use regular UZR.

Franklin’s UZR was 17.4, and his VORP would have been a bit worse if he had played the full year with the same offensive production. So it’s really close in total value, and with Hart having a down year in my opinion, I wouldn’t do the trade. But my point above stands, that I wouldn’t mind dealing Hart and then picking up a guy like Gutierrez to take his place.