Wednesday, December 5, 2007
NY Daily News: Yankees ship Tyler Clippard to Washington Nationals
The bullpen remains the Yankees' biggest area of need, but they agreed to a minor deal Tuesday to add another power arm to their relief corps.
The Yankees will send Tyler Clippard to the Nationals for Jonathan Albaladejo in a swap of righthanders, although the trade won't become official until both players take physicals.
This news is a few days old, but there's some other stuff going on that kind of put it on the backburner. I liked Clippard, although I thought he was probably going to be a fifth starter at best. I don't know anything much about Albaladejo, so here are a few links:
BR Bullpen: Jonathan Albaledejo.
Career stats, majors and minors.
Some CAIRO projections for you:
| NAME | AGE | TEAM | Role | W | L | LG | SV | ERA | ERA+ | G | IP | H | HR | R | ER | BB | SO | GB% | RsaA | RSaR |
| Albaladejo | 25 | NYA | R | 2 | 1 | AL | 1 | 4.41 | 101 | 55 | 66 | 67 | 10 | 34 | 33 | 14 | 43 | 61% | 0 | 3 |
| Clippard | 23 | WAS | S | 5 | 8 | NL | 0 | 5.35 | 79 | 17 | 95 | 94 | 17 | 58 | 57 | 47 | 73 | 39% | -12 | -1 |
| Clippard | 23 | NYA | S | 6 | 6 | AL | 0 | 5.68 | 79 | 17 | 95 | 104 | 19 | 61 | 60 | 41 | 66 | 39% | -13 | -1 |
RSaA: Runs saved above average
RSaR: Runs saved above replacement
Albaladejo put up a great 2007 and has the stuff to be pretty good, but he has supposedly not shown a very strong work ethic. Clippard's still pretty young, and I think moving to the NL will help him out, but with the Yankees churning out RHP he became expendable. Best of luck T-Clip.
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