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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
So what would you have given up? (I'm ready for an insane Baltimore Orioles fan kinda proposal here). What does it cost to get a starter who goes 200 IP with 200K his prior two seasons?
A bucket of shag balls and a Christmas card?
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The key point here is that we only have two years of control of Shields. We gave up six years of every prospect we sent in that deal. I would have turned the deal down - and that's not unreasonable, if not simply because Frenchy is SOOOO terrible that Myers replacing Frenchy is undoubtedly worth more wins than Shields over whomever we could have acquired with 12 or 18 million in free agency dollars.