What I've found amusing is that it seems EVERYBODY has been in favor of trading pitching for impact bats. Of course now that Hart & Company has rebuilt the pitching depth in the system everybody screams bloody murder when Wood's dealt for one, and I'm quite sure my Teheran/Braun proposal will be widely panned.
Many of the "haters" complain that we're not adding bats through the draft or free-agency. The simple (and never-ending) truth is that you can ALWAYS trade pitching for hitting - I can't recall a time in the last 40 years that that wasn't the case. The stats our more numerically-inclined friends provide us are as inarguable as the fact that almost EVERY deal contenders make at the deadline every year revolve around inexpensive, controllable, high-ceiling SPs. This has always been the case, and isn't likely to change any time in the in the near future.
Many of the "haters" complain that we're not adding bats through the draft or free-agency. The simple (and never-ending) truth is that you can ALWAYS trade pitching for hitting - I can't recall a time in the last 40 years that that wasn't the case. The stats our more numerically-inclined friends provide us are as inarguable as the fact that almost EVERY deal contenders make at the deadline every year revolve around inexpensive, controllable, high-ceiling SPs. This has always been the case, and isn't likely to change any time in the in the near future.
