Jake Peavy

by Conor Duffy on Dec 25, 2011 9:43 AM EST

First off, I'd like to wish everyone a merry Christmas; second off, though, it's a Sunday, so I still did the "Conor Says" on my blog. So, the other day I was reading an article about how the Red Sox might want to trade for Gavin Floyd. Mentioned in the article was that the White Sox may have to trade Floyd to make room in their payroll for Jake Peavy's bloated $17 million contract. As soon as I saw this, I headed over the FanGraphs and I checked out his stats. He had a pretty unimpressive ERA of 4.92, but I looked past this. I saw his sparkling peripherals of a 3.21 FIP and 3.52 xFIP. Those weren't too far off of the 2.84 and 3.34 he posted in his Cy Young season of 2007. In that season, he posted a 2.54 ERA and 19-6 record. He also has a great 7.66 K/9 and 1.93 BB/9, which also aren't too far from his Cy Young year. Making a deal like this reminds me of the Derek Lowe deal earlier this offseason, where the Braves ate about half of Lowe's contract and shipped him to Cleveland for a low-level prospect. If the White Sox could eat about $10 million from Peavy's contract, then the Sox may be able to acquire him. Thanks for reading and merry Christmas.

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Merry Christmas

I’ll pass on Peavy, if we’re going to trade for someone I’d like a pitcher who can reliably hit 190-210 innings. Peavy is constantly hurt, so he’s not a guy I want here.

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by TheLoneDavid on Dec 25, 2011 11:21 AM EST reply actions

I don't hate the idea...

but if we wanted to spend that kind of money we could get better options. We appear reluctant to spend that amount of money (even with ChiSox picking up a solid portion).

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by alskor on Dec 25, 2011 11:07 PM EST reply actions

It depends how much the White Sox would be willing to pick up

If I was Cherington, I would start at like $13 million. If they would pick that up, we would be paying him $4 million. There aren’t a whole lot of better options than that. (If they’d do it)

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by Conor Duffy on Dec 26, 2011 7:20 AM EST up reply actions