I wouldn’t waste our money on him. Rosenthal and Olney have recently published articles saying that we are considering going after Dunn, Hudson, and Wolf, because combined they would probably just equal the cost of Manny.

I like this idea much better, except for the fact that I’m not sure what happens to Dewitt. I would be worried Ned would trade him away and not get much in return. If Dewitt and Blake could platoon, and then Dewiitt could slowly start to take over the 3rd base job, I think that would be the best way to work this scenario out.

For the last two years Abreu has been worth 2.8 wins and 1.3 wins because his bat has started to fade and his defense is truly abysmal. Meanwhile Hudson has been worth 3.1 wins and 1.9 wins, even while missing significant time in both seasons. At this point they’re pretty similiar hitters. Abreu has posted wOBA’s of .360 and .368 the last two years compared to Hudson’s wOBA’s of .361 and .358. The difference in value is with Hudson you have a decent fielding second baseman while Abreu is a terrible left fielder. Abreu does project to be a bit better with the bat but the positions more than make up the difference.

The only other negative to signing Hudson is that he costs us our first round pick. But if we are going to sign multiple guys in place of Manny, I’d definitely take Hudson over Abreu.