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Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0
the fact that you don't recognize that Cueto is like a Bumgarner and Duffy is a guy who can't even make a postseason rotation is alarming
Cueto, with our park and our defense, would be the best pitcher we've had since Greinke won his Cy Young.
Cueto pitches in Cincy, a HR derby ballpark, and hasn't sniffed a 3 ERA in years. Not only that, he's a guy who will pitch 7-8 innings every time out with our defense behind him.
He's a no brainer.
And the simple fact we have people who think Danny Duffy will net us Johnny Cueto is hilarious to me. And the fact some people wouldn't trade Duffy to get Cueto back is even more hilarious to me.
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We are not 100% guaranteed to win when he starts and we are not 100% guaranteed to lose when his replacement starts. Also, you don't improve our game 2 and 3 situation at all.
Now, if we had a stable of pretty good pitchers but nobody is great, lets say 3 or 4 guys who can give you a decent or pretty good start, then swapping one for an Ace makes a whole lot more sense.
We don't have that. We have maybe 2 acceptable pitchers right now. If you make this trade, then if Cueto doesn't win every single damned time he starts, we're toast because game 3 probably looks bad unless we're matched against another team with SP problems. We need Duffy or someone like him for game 3 to give us a chance every time out.