Agreed...None of the guys listed there are worth much. You're paying for what they might do instead of what they're currently doing and Jaime is right up there as he's had good stretches over the eyars when healthy. That's what you're hoping for. Also being a lefty helps a lot.
I actually like keeping Adams. Guy will be a FA next year and those years usually go pretty well. He is a valuable bench bat.
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Not a bad d vision if the market for Adams isn't there. Like it has been said, we could trade him in the offseason or at the end of spring training
Get off my lawn!
Now, I feel like we're going to announce a Matt Adams trade shortly.
I don't have a problem with that idea at all - except for the fact that this front office has done nothing to make me think they'd try to spin Headley off (or even release him) before he'd stunk up the joint so badly that he had no value. Again, I keep going back to the Bartolo situation and can see the exact same thing happening with Headley. Rodriguez, Camargo, and Ruiz could be outplaying him, but the brass would continually run him out there in hopes that "tonight's when he explodes and instantly rebuilds his value". The Yankees have literally been waiting for that stretch since the day he signed that deal.
Has there EVER been a statement and question a certain someone should absolutely never have made and asked publicly more than...
Kinda pathetic to see yourself as a message board knight in shining armor. How impotent does someone have to be in real life to resort to playing hero on a message board?
clvclv (07-20-2017)
Marlins get four prospects for Phelps. Great for them regardless of who it is. Their system depth is just awful.
Sources: OF Brayan Hernandez is the top prospect heading from Seattle to Miami. Big bonus baby a few years back, high ceiling, only 19.
Sources: While #Astros are in talks with #Athletics on Sonny Gray, they remain interested in Justin Verlander/Justin Wilson deal w/ Detroit.
A healthy Astros team with Gray will win the WS Lol
That's where I have the problem - if you're taking on a bad contract because the player's not performing in order to "buy" a prospect, don't compound the problem by having that *hitty player get in the way of the development of other players that you actually need to see.
I'm not sure that it's an organizational edict that they won't eat money and just cut *hitty vets loose since they finally cut ties with Big Sexy, but signs sure point to that being the case. They kept guys like Bourn around instead of getting a longer look at Mallex, keep guys like EOF (and others) around instead of promoting any of the plethora of young arms scattered throughout the system, etc.. It just seems like they'll do the first part right (taking on the bad contract to get the prospect), only to butcher the second part (use the hole to evaluate the young talent you've acquired).
If you're buying a prospect, buy him, and get on with it. Spend the money and move on.
Last edited by clvclv; 07-20-2017 at 10:47 AM.
Has there EVER been a statement and question a certain someone should absolutely never have made and asked publicly more than...
Kinda pathetic to see yourself as a message board knight in shining armor. How impotent does someone have to be in real life to resort to playing hero on a message board?
Market for relief seems robust. Coppolella should cash in.