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Moreover, Edwin Jackson didn't pitch well. He pretty much just stood there and hoped balls got hit at people - he was terrible. Scrabble didn't pitch well either; he walked too many guys, put too many on and despite situational use only, still had an ERA around 4. Again, you're just revising history here - those guys weren't playing that well for us. If ANY trade truly made a difference it was giving Castallanos for Furcal. The Rasmus trade was far FAR less impactful than the Furcal trade and Furcal cost a hell of a lot less than Colby Rasmus. Again, we didn't have to give up Colby Rasmus to get those relievers. It's your position that somehow, I guess, moving Colby Rasmus for Alex Cobb would have hypothetically hurt the clubhouse or something. Or that simply taking on Teahen's deal to bring in that talent is just a wild hypothetical that we can't contemplate (why, I don't know...again, it happened mere hours before we gave up actual talent to get the same trash). The guys we got had next to NO trade value at all. Trading Rasmus for them was still a terrible trade, just as trading anything at all for Broxton and paying $3 million for him for the rest of the year. The Colby Rasmus trade was not a feather in anyone's cap. It is not proof or vindication for anything Mozeliak did.
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I've mentioned the middle relievers performance as helping us win the WS, not Jackson.
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Didn't it? If Haren's here, Weaver's not needed and the Weaver deal isn't made. If we're to just presume that any hypothetical proposed would have just blown up in our faces, then hypothetically Haren could have cratered and Weaver being on the roster instead of him was instrumental to our championship.
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Rasmus for Scrabble is a win in your book because of 8 post-season innings pitched with an ERA in the mid 4's and a barely above 0 win probability added? A relievers WPA is huge because of how context specific their use is. Scrabble's biggest contribution in terms of WPA BY FAR was when he came in and gave up the single and the double that scored the two inherited runners (from Dotel, I might add) that cost us game 5. The value placed on their contributions has just been wildly overstated by people as time has gone by and the cost surrendered to acquire them was entirely out of whack.
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We will just have to agree to disagree on this piece of history. Now, having Kozma, Cruz and Choate on this team is an embarrassment. Mathenys bullpen management is for shit, his wanting to use "veterans" instead of being based on performance we are on the same page.
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Are we trotting out the Kozma/Cruz line up today? If so, I'm just gonna chalk up an L and do something else with my afternoon.
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Surprisingly it's a real lineup today. But with Jaime pitching, don't expect more than one run anyway.
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There is one thing in common for all prospects traded on this list except for Moss.
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Except Collymore is nowhere near the same caliber of player that Rasmus is. He's athletic as hell, but moving from 2B to OF makes him lose some of his value.
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Well... This is exciting.
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Can't hit a soft tossing pefty, I'm shocked
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#806 |
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Did not think grichuk got all of that
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Jaime getting double his usual run support.
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I don't like cishek. Maybe it's just me
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