{"id":792047,"date":"2018-02-06T06:08:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=792047"},"modified":"2018-02-06T06:08:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:08:08","slug":"sideways-thumb-mets-sign-todd-frazier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/sideways-thumb-mets-sign-todd-frazier\/","title":{"rendered":"Sideways Thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have to be careful before I completely blast this latest Mets move, if only because Todd Frazier seems popular enough to be Curtis Granderson 2.0. (In fact, both players’ slashes in the two seasons before joining the Mets are extremely similar: .231\/.319\/..469 for Granderson, .220\/.322\/.448 for Frazier.) So I’m sure while I look at this now from an analytical eye, in two years when his new Mets contract<\/a> ends, I’ll be bawling out in tribute for all that Frazier has done for a .500 team.<\/p>\n It’s a great deal for Frazier. He got the two year deal he was looking for, preventing him from having to take a one-year soft landing deal with the Yankees and then have to battle with Manny Machado and Josh Donaldson for his next deal. (Of course signing Frazier will prevent the Mets from signing Machado or Donaldson to a long term de… I can’t even type that with a straight face.) For the Mets, they get somebody who plays decent defense (1.0 dWAR player last season), and has a low average with a decent walk rate. (It really is amazing how similar Frazier is to Granderson.) And they also get a good clubhouse guy, which they forced themselves into thinking about after trading all of their positive influences, including Granderson, at the end of last season. So it really seems as if they’re getting the 2017 band back together, except that Anthony Swarzak replaces Addison Reed, and Frazier now replaces Granderson.<\/p>\n