Diamondbacks acquire David Eckstein

by Jim McLennan on Aug 31, 2008 4:32 PM EDT Comment 33 comments

Off the AP Wire:

The Arizona Diamondbacks announced today that they have acquired infielder David Eckstein in a trade with the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for right-handed pitcher Chad Beck (Visalia).

Eckstein, 33, is batting .277 (72-for-260) in 76 games this season for the Blue Jays with 27 runs scored, 18 doubles, a home run and 22 RBI. After today's game at Yankee Stadium, he is batting .357 (15-for-42) over his last 12 games, including Aug. 13 at Detroit when he reached base safely four times, matching his season-high with three hits (also on April 26 at Kansas City). Eckstein has a career batting average of .285 (1151-for-4032) in 1041 games for the Angels, Cardinals and Blue Jays. He has scored 583 runs, hit 179 doubles, 18 triples, 31 home runs, 307 RBI and 112 RBI over parts of eight Major League seasons.

Eckstein has been a part of two World Series Championship teams with both the 2002 Anaheim Angels and the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals, earning Series MVP honors for the Cardinals. In the 2006 series, he hit .364 (8-for-22) with four RBI and three runs scored against the Tigers, going 4-for-5 with three doubles in Game 4. The Sanford, Fla., native was selected to the 2005 and 2006 National League All-Star teams.

Beck, 23, started the season in South Bend, going 2-0 with a 2.04 ERA (4 ER in 17.2 IP) over seven games, holding opponents to a .186 average (13-for-70) with three walks and 19 strikeouts. Promoted to Visalia on May 2, appearing in his first 10 games as a reliever, going 1-0 with a save and a 1.37 ERA (4 ER in 16.1 IP). As a starter for the Oaks, he went 4-5 with a 4.46 ERA (39 ER in 78.2 IP) with 14 walks and 65 strikeouts over 13 games.

Obviously, the aim is to upgrade at second over the Ojeda/Burke platoon, and I think it'll do that, though Eckstein is the classic Scrappy White Guy and possesses next to no power. The trade took place on the last possible day to make Eckstein eligible for a spot on the post-season roster, and I presume it also ends the speculation about Reynolds moving from third over to second.

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We don't know who will be gone, right?

Any word on the new 25-man? With it being such a platoon in the infield, I can only hope that we would FINALLY DFA Burke….as cruel as that would be, what other choices are there…

by snakecharmer on Aug 31, 2008 4:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Figure he'll be our new lead-off batter

High OBP, not much power, sounds like he fits the traditional role to me.

"Only one thing is gonna walk you through this, Mal. Belief."

by kishi on Aug 31, 2008 4:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

But it's Bob Melvin,

so he’ll probably bat cleanup or something.

Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers: Filling the dubious shoes left open by Barry Bonds and the Giants.

by DbacksSkins on Aug 31, 2008 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm figuring 8th

cause that is so much more logical (in bomels world)

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

by unnamedDBacksfan on Aug 31, 2008 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Seems very likely to me

I would not mind him (.352 OBP this season) at the top, Drew at #2 and Chris Young taking his .302 career OBP and returning to the depths of the order where he belongs. Don’t make me break out the So Young, So Bad [in the #2 hole] graphic again, Melvin…

by Jim McLennan on Aug 31, 2008 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Where are the comments

disappearing to?

Skins made a comment and I relied to it, but I only see the ones by snakecharmer and kishi. I’ve noticed this the past two days, whe I go to refresh the page or i come back to the site, a good many comments are now hidden from my view. Is any one else experiancing this?

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

by unnamedDBacksfan on Aug 31, 2008 4:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I think I'm seeing everything

but yes, there are definite glitches in SBN. Strangely enough, it’s been with the comment totals! The threads seem to be saying there are a lot more comments than there actually are. I’ve noticed because the past two days running the rollcall script, it seems to output the correct number, and the thread itself says something much higher.

by snakecharmer on Aug 31, 2008 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

do you see the post

by skins and myself? he made the comment about batting cleanup and i replied about having him bat 8th in melvins perfect world…

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

by unnamedDBacksfan on Aug 31, 2008 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I do

One thing I’ve noticed is, if you go to another page in the same window and then click the “Back” button to come back, the comments may not appear correctly. I always have to reload (not refresh), and eventually I know now not to go somewhere in the same window. :)

by snakecharmer on Aug 31, 2008 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ohhhh weird! Now they're gone!!

I DID see them, I reloaded and they’re gone!

If I knew who to contact at SBN, I would, but seeing as how there’s ANOTHER network outage tonight, they’re probably aware of it…

by snakecharmer on Aug 31, 2008 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

that's weird

as I’ve tried relaoded a couple times now.

I’ll try it again and let you know what is missing.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

by unnamedDBacksfan on Aug 31, 2008 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

well snakecharmer

everything is as I left it this time. I didn’t relaod though, I was on the fan post about Webb going for win 20. (Hack, I saw your very last comment, this is the issue you brought up there; re dissapearing comments). I came back here by going to the front page and coming here through the link directly.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

by unnamedDBacksfan on Aug 31, 2008 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I've noticed that too,

the way if you navigate away from the thread, you have to go back to the SnakePit home and reopen it — if you press “Back”, it’ll just return you to the state of the thread’s comments when you entered it originally. It’s been like that ever since 2.0 came out.

Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers: Filling the dubious shoes left open by Barry Bonds and the Giants.

by DbacksSkins on Aug 31, 2008 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah,

I think you were absolutely right — the problem isn’t with your rollcall script, but with SBN.

Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers: Filling the dubious shoes left open by Barry Bonds and the Giants.

by DbacksSkins on Aug 31, 2008 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hmmm.....

very strange, indeed. Yeah, I remarked that he’d probably be our new cleanup batter.

Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers: Filling the dubious shoes left open by Barry Bonds and the Giants.

by DbacksSkins on Aug 31, 2008 5:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Interesting

If I look at the front page, it tells me there are 4 comments here, but when I open the link, I only see two. SBN seems to be having a bit of a glitch here, I guess.

"Only one thing is gonna walk you through this, Mal. Belief."

by kishi on Aug 31, 2008 4:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

thank you!

I thought i was going nuts

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

by unnamedDBacksfan on Aug 31, 2008 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

okay, cable out at my place

at kinko’s paying twenty cents a minute, so I can’t spend all day on this…. I have a stupid question:

Is this another rental? or is he staying around? I don’t see us resigning Hudson with the numbers i hear he’s looking for, so……

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

by unnamedDBacksfan on Aug 31, 2008 4:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Go to Starbucks or something!

Find a free wifi instead!

by snakecharmer on Aug 31, 2008 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

According to Cot's

he’s a rental

"We...probed them all the way through. They're completely meat." — Terry Bisson

by Scrbl on Aug 31, 2008 5:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Unless

we plan to resign him.

As we should be doing with Adam Dunn……

Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers: Filling the dubious shoes left open by Barry Bonds and the Giants.

by DbacksSkins on Aug 31, 2008 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Depending on the price

I’d be happy with that. Eric Byrnes has got to be nervous though. In his absence, we found a good left fielder and a new scrappy gamer. Where’s he gonna fit in next year?

"We...probed them all the way through. They're completely meat." — Terry Bisson

by Scrbl on Aug 31, 2008 6:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs