Grading Ruben

Ruben takes a lot of heat for not being an advanced metrics guy.  I wanted to do my own exercise of evaluating his moves big and small

The A Moves:
1. Getting Doc Halladay
2. Getting Cliff Lee the first time
3. Keeping Cole
4. Getting Cliff Lee the second time
5. Extending Jimmy
6. Mike Adams

The B moves:
1. Trading Lee to Seattle-Aumont is proving to be a quality arm in the BP and the fact that we turned around and resigned Lee gives the deal better consideration.
2. Trading Hunter Pence-Joseph was fair return with good upside
3. Michael Young-Only paying $6 Million 1 Year Deal however he didn't need to give up Bonilla
4. Ty Wigginton-Forget that he was horrible on paper it was a solid move
5. Laynce Nix-Forget that he injured himself in 12 again on paper solid move
6. Victorino Trade-Ethan Martin has real big league stuff if he finds a way to stop walking batters he is a front line starter.


The C Moves
1.  Extending Howard-At the time I thought he should have waited.  The price would have come down or we would have moved on.
2. Trading for Hunter Pence-That deal should have stopped at Cosart and Singleton it didn't need to include Santana regardless of what Santana becomes
3. Papelbon-Great player but better vision could have got you Rodney at a much lower cost
4. Roy Oswalt-I gave this move a C because had he just signed Lee it wasn't necessary.
5. Lannan-Not a bad sign at $1.5 for a 5th starter on a 1 year deal
6. Revere-It's early and probably not fair to put it this low but how else can you grade it today!

The D Moves
1. Chad Qualls-Hard to call this a D move because he cost nothing
2. Chad Durbin-It just wasn't necessary with DeFratus, Aumont and the Adams sign
3. D. Young-I think its pretty obvious the guy can no longer play the OF not to mention he may be the least liked guy in baseball since Milton Bradley.  But at $750K still not an F sign.

I really don't see any F moves.  Maybe those are the moves he didn't make.  Beltran for example would look really good in RF for us right now and last year in LF.   I don't really have strong opinion on either the Polanco sign or the Ibanez sign.  Both older players that made decent contributions while they were here.