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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
That's fair. I don't know that I'd say Colon is on par with Wong, but there may be a small enough gap between them that you'd want to save your powder for a different trade.
Colon's sure failed a lot, though. He's had a couple of brief spurts of productivity, but he's otherwise been a pretty shitty minor leaguer. I know he was a high value draft pick, but you eventually want to see some production and Colon's offered very little thus far. I think you improve the odds of getting a legitimate big-league 2b pretty substantially by moving for Wong, but I've been wrong before.
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His numbers at AA last year are nearly identical to Wong's.
Colon: .289/.364/.392 | .756 OPS | 16 XBH in 270 AB | 12/18 SB
Wong: .287/.348/.405 | .754 OPS | 38 XBH in 520 AB | 21/32 SB
Wong hit for slightly more power (Colon projected to 31 XBH in same number of AB as Wong) but Colon was slightly better at getting on base. Neither is a guy who should be trying to steal bases in the major leagues.
Colon was actually BETTER at Omaha than he was at AAA, too, in an extremely small sample size (17 AB).
If Colon was shitty last year, so was Wong...
That's why I can't see them moving even Calixte for Wong. Christian Colon is practically the same player, and he has more positional versatility.