Last time it was about the GM, this time it’s about… Centerfield. The new Nats rumor swirling around has them trading for Preston Wilson. Granted, the rumors don’t have any consensus on who the Nats would be giving up, but the usual suspects are named – Tomo Okha and Zach Day.
My take? Iffy. I know that Wilkerson is not a natural centerfielder and that we need a true center man but I don’t think that, if we are going to give up one of our two best trade baits it should be for a guy hitting .240 so far in the hitting confines of Coors Field. .240 there is like .210 here, and that’s just not acceptable. Plus, aside from Ryan Church being a true centerfielder and developing well for a younger guy, the Nats would have to have the Rocks pay all of the 12 million owed to Wilson for this season… something I doubt they’d be willing to do.
If I was Jim Bowden, I’d hang on to Okha, Day and Endy Chavez for a bit longer and deal them for a better hitting centerfielder who might come on the market. June and July will be more fertile trading time, and there are bad teams who need pitching that would get us a better CF than Wilson – even Kansas City’s David Dejesus is younger than Wilson with better stats… and lord knows the Royals need the help right now.
And before you go jumping all over me on the Nats budget – Bud Selig said today that they plan to have the team sold buy mid-summer, but even if they didn’t, the Nats would have the flexibility to add payroll if they were in the race by mid-summer. They stay close now and they’ll be fine in July.
From Nationals Pride
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