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Vin Mazarro, RHP, 3rd round 2005

2006 - A - who cares
2007 - A+ - 5.33 ERA, 1.497 WHIP, 6.7 K/9, 1.62 K/BB, 0.8 HR/9
2008 - AA and AAA - 2.74 ERA, 1.222 WHIP, 6.9 K/9, 2.91 K/BB, 0.3 HR/9
2009 - AAA - 2.38 ERA, 1.041 WHIP, 7 K/9, 2.59 K/BB, 0.3 HR/9

minors: started out crappy, improved to a decent minor league pitcher. Didn't give up many home runs, strikeout ratios are pretty good.

2009 - OAK - 5.32 ERA, 1.741 WHIP, 5.8 K/9, 1.51 K/BB, 1.2 HR/9
2010 - OAK - 4.27 ERA, 1.447 WHIP, 5.8 K/9, 1.58 K/BB, 1.4 HR/9

uhhh.... wow. Not good. He's young and may have talent, but he certainly hasn't made the last adjustment from AAA at all. Not yet, anyway. If he figures it out in KC with a change of scenery that would be wonderful. Hopefully this guy was a throw-in and the 2nd pitcher was the guy we coveted. That 2nd guy is...

Justin Marks, LHP (another one? Holy christ, don't we already have enough lefties?), 3rd round 2009

2009 - Rookie - who cares, one game in rookie ball
2010 - A and A+ - 4.87 ERA, 1.353 WHIP, 9.5 K/9, 2.78 K/BB, 1 HR/9

Struck out a ton of batters in his first year as a pro, gave up an average number of homers, doesn't walk many people, but he got hit a bit. Only 19 games worth of stats, so these are of limited use. They certainly don't say "A-class prospect" to me. Guy like this, you need a scouting report. OK, I read a few, Marks was not on anyone's top-10 list of oakland prospects, seemed more in the 20-range. Keith Law was not high on him earlier this year.

Overall, dude seems like a C-grade prospect.

We traded one season of David DeJesus (free agent next year) for a B-grade pitching prospect who might or might not help us starting this year, and a C-grade prospect who aside from being yet ANOTHER lefty, may or may not ever reach KC.

I mean yeah, its only one year and on paper you'd think maybe it was a fair deal, but I'm not thrilled with this deal. Maybe we could have signed him for one or two more years, and if we cant, I'd hope we'd get more than this on a deadline trade for a team trying to make the playoffs.

We have the potential to win this trade, perhaps, but unless we know something about his health that no one else doesn't, or unless we think he's going to turn into a pile of crap in 2011 and ruin his trade value, I'm not happy. I'm not enraged either, but I'm not happy.