Over at Amazin' Avenue, they criticize a Kevin Burkhardt Tweet about Francouer's early success with the mets.:
A bright spot: the Francoeur for Church swap has been an early steal for the Mets. He has been terrific
If we put aside our general contention that Church is overall a better player than Francoeur (the statistical numbers bear this out), here are the two players' slash lines with their new teams:
Francoeur: .298/.327/.442
Church: .278/.400/.444If we blatantly disregard everything else, Francoeur does lead in homeruns 5-2, which I guess = early steal.
He's not being totally fair, Frenchie has 20 RBI while Church only has 10! If you think I'm being sarcastic you are totally right. Frenchie has twice as many RBI, more HRs, and a better average, but it's on the heels of having twice as many plate appearances. Any metric you want to use besides batting average, home runs, or RBI will tell you Church has been better, significantly better, but alas those are still the go-to stats for most peeps.
Recently I was looking at a friend's fantasy team who had Jeff Francouer. I wasn't really following how Frenchie has been on the lowly Mets, so I assumed the worst. I asked him why he still had Frenchie on his team and he said he's doing really well. Fantasy wise, you check the stats and .300 with 5 homers and 20 RBI in 108 ABs is fine production for a 4th or 5th OF. But that's why it's fantasy, not real life. Francouer may have more homers than Church since the trade, but they are slugging the same, he may also have a better average but he's getting on base less often. One month isn't enough time to appropriately judge this trade but historically Church has been the better player and he's been the better player since the trade too. So, it's safe to make an early conclusion on this trade and we were right from the beginning, it has been a poor move by the Mets, not an early steal.
In other related news, should I try tweeting?
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