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Old 12-09-2012, 11:49 PM   #10155
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Originally Posted by BWillie View Post
Oh come on now, that is not true and you know it. Shields will make this team immensely better on day one, the only problem is we only have him 2 years and he's not younger.
It will make the Royals better 1 day out of every 5 and significantly worse on the other 4 days.

That's why I often think people overvalue SP in trade discussions unless you're a legitimate post-season contender.

Starting pitching is the key in October, but it takes 162 games to get there. The Royals have just made themselves a better post-season team (potentially), but have made it much much harder for them to get there at all. A team that makes this trade needs to be a team that already had the regular season roster to make the playoffs without the move. The Royals aren't that team.

It wasn't necessarily an awful trade in a vacuum (though it wasn't a good one), but it was an awful trade for the Royals.
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