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Originally Posted by moon
What?
Napoli's best offensive seasons aren't close to Wells best seasons. Napoli has some power and that is about it. Everything else
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Napoli's best year (2008): .273/.374/.586, good for a .960 OPS
Wells' best year (2006): .303/.357/.542, good for a .899 OPS
Wells only looks good if you're stuck in the 1950's and still use AVG and RBI to judge players.
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Unless Napoli someone takes a huge jump forward in his ability I don't see how they get better offensive production from him, especially since he plays the same position as a bunch of others on the team.
Rivera on the bench is a whole bunch of meh, especially since the Jays aren't competing next year.
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Rivera will rotate through C/1B/DH where the Jays currently have Arencibia/Lind/Encarnacion playing. The only guy who's arguably a comparable hitter to Napoli of that bunch is Lind and he's only had one hitting season like that.
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If they are going to be the kind of team that competes with the Red Sox and Yankees like people keep saying then the Wells contract shouldn't have mattered to re-signing guys.
Good to get rid of the contract since the Jays weren't going to be competitive at any time that Wells would have helped and dumping the deal does help the team I agree with that.
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So basically if they're going to be as good as the Yankees or Red Sox they have to spend as much as them? What about Tampa Bay? You don't think Tampa (or the Twins) would like another $20 million in payroll right now to keep those good young players they keep losing?