It's easier to find a power hitting outfielder then it is to find a good pitcher I guess was their rationale.Kyle wrote:It's shocking that the White Sox gave up Chris Young for Vasquez.
He is a very highly-touted prospect.
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Not if you're the Cardinals.Magneto wrote:It's easier to find a power hitting outfielder then it is to find a good pitcher I guess was their rationale.Kyle wrote:It's shocking that the White Sox gave up Chris Young for Vasquez.
He is a very highly-touted prospect.
I agree with the previous poster, Byrnes would look good in RF.
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I'd go for it, but I want more of an impact player. You know, the one that Dewitt is saving up all that money for.cabby7588 wrote:To be honest I LOVE the way Bynes plays, this isn't a bad idea at all. He hustles, can get on base, CLASS guy, and has a killer arm in the outfield with a pretty darn good glove. Good idea, let's do it!TimmyG wrote:Let's trade for Eric Byrnes.
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I don't know, though.Magneto wrote:It's easier to find a power hitting outfielder then it is to find a good pitcher I guess was their rationale.Kyle wrote:It's shocking that the White Sox gave up Chris Young for Vasquez.
He is a very highly-touted prospect.
Young isn't just a power-hitting outfielder... he is a power-hitting center fielder. That is not really that easy to find.
And at the time Vasquez was coming off consecutive sub-100 ERA+ seasons; he was very close (92 in '04, 99 in '05), but he was still signed to a pretty bulky contract... in other words, he was a bit of a risk.
I really can't rationalize it... especially when you consider that they could have just kept Young and started McCarthy.
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It's shocking what the Yankees gave up for him, too. Nick Johnson, Juan Rivera, and Randy Choate. Choate became nothing but Johnson's been very good, even if injury-prone, and Rivera gave them one solid year.Kyle wrote:It's shocking that the White Sox gave up Chris Young for Vasquez.
He is a very highly-touted prospect.
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The D'backs do seem to be a promising young team. But look how bad they were for a few years there while they were rebuilding.
I suppose there's merit to the way they're doing it - but I prefer our way, where we manage, somehow, to be legitimate contenders year after year instead of having to be bad for several years and then get back up there.
I suppose there's merit to the way they're doing it - but I prefer our way, where we manage, somehow, to be legitimate contenders year after year instead of having to be bad for several years and then get back up there.
