{"id":73,"date":"2010-08-07T12:58:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2012-09-26T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:07:39","slug":"my-2-cents-on-dunns-non-trade-in-short-sign-him-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"My 2 cents on Dunn’s non-trade… in short, sign him now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post trade deadline, Jayson Stark was quoted somewhere (can’t find the link) that the White Sox offered up both Daniel Hudson<\/a> and catcher prospect Tyler Flowers<\/a> for Dunn.\u00a0 If that is indeed true, I can’t quite understand why the Nats didn’t pull the trigger.<\/p>\n

I think perhaps the Nats hard line was a MLB-ready bat.\u00a0 Hudson seems to be in the same place (or a bit better) as our Jordan Zimmermann right now; cleaned up at AA, and has impressed so far in MLB.\u00a0 #2 starter prospect.\u00a0 We already got a catcher prospect in Ramos (for Capps) but you can never have enough catching…<\/p>\n

Honestly, everything i’ve read about Rizzo and Dunn this trading season was along the lines of “teams are calling us and making offers; we’re not calling them to
\noffer up Dunn.”\u00a0 I really think teh Nats want to resign the guy.\u00a0 Yeah he’ll be expensive but look at his production.<\/p>\n

In the NL right now, here’s where Dunn is ranked in various categories:<\/a>
\n2nd in slugging
\n3rd in OPS
\n10th in runs scored
\n2nd in total bases
\n6th in doubles
\n1st in homers
\n1st in extra base hits
\n3rd in RBI
\n3rd in Adjusted OPS+ (my favorite all-encompasing stat).\u00a0 Currently at 153, Behind Votto and Pujols
\nand, yes 2nd in Ks.<\/p>\n

You just have to resign a guy like this.\u00a0 Youare not going to find a slugging talent like this on the FA market these days.\u00a0 I mean, the best comparison seems to be someone like Fielder and he’ll be looking for a $100M contract.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally.\u00a0 here’s where Zimmermann is on all these lists as well:
\n10th in NL-wide war (5th among hitters)
\n11th in batting average
\n6th in OBP
\n8th in slugging
\n5th in OPS
\n10th in runs
\n4th in adjusted OPS+ at 147, just behind Dunn.<\/p>\n

I mean, basically they’re saying that 2 of the 4 best overall hitters in the NL are hitting right next to each other in the heart of the Washington lineup.\u00a0 I’ll put our 3-4-5 hitters up there against anyone in the league right now.\u00a0 Milwaukee’s Braun-Fielder-Hart is pretty good.\u00a0 Philly’s Utley-Howard-Werth should be up there in normal circumstances.\u00a0 Same with the dodgers (a healthy Ramirez-Kemp-Ethier combo).<\/p>\n

Speaking of the dodgers; man the nats (well, Dunn) got to Kershaw last night.\u00a0 6 rbi and 2 homers will make for a nice week, let alone a nice first couple of at bats.<\/p>\n

Sign him; he’s the key to the middle of the order of this team for the next 4 years, by which time we should be competing for the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Post trade deadline, Jayson Stark was quoted somewhere (can’t find the link) that the White Sox offered up both Daniel Hudson and catcher prospect Tyler Flowers for Dunn.\u00a0 If that is indeed true, I can’t quite understand why the Nats didn’t pull the trigger. I think perhaps the Nats hard line was a MLB-ready bat.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[139,123,144,399,426,993,548,986,115,592,43,531,434,145,129,183,388,675,36,992,147],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-adam-dunn","tag-albert-pujols","tag-andre-ethier","tag-chase-utley","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-corey-hart","tag-daniel-hudson","tag-jayson-stark","tag-jayson-werth","tag-joey-votto","tag-jordan-zimmermann","tag-manny-ramirez","tag-matt-capps","tag-matt-kemp","tag-mike-rizzo","tag-prince-fielder","tag-ryan-braun","tag-ryan-howard","tag-ryan-zimmerman","tag-tyler-flowers","tag-wilson-ramos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4714,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}