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mark_beckens last won the day on April 20 2013

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    Matt Wieters
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    Cal Ripken

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  1. So you're looking for an un-opinionated opinion?
  2. So your logic is, because other prospects haven't made it all our future prospects won't make it so we should trade them before other teams realize they suck.
  3. Glad you're not our GM. You would have traded our entire minor leagues.
  4. Easy one, the cost to acquire him. Bundy/Harvey/Gausman + is too much!
  5. And my point was, making trades just to say you made a trade doesn't necessarily improve the team. There were only a few SP's, 2nd basemen and catchers out there that would be a improvement. Some/most of them are on playoff teams and won't be traded. So the few players who would actually help US, is the cost worth the upgrade? You seem to think that every trade is an improvement, regardless of the cost. Which is incorrect IMO! Google Glenn Davis traded to Orioles for an example of a trade that didn't improve a team and actually set it back for many years because of the players lost.
  6. According to YOU, we should have made more trades to improve. Well, what deals, what players, what positions should we have traded for? What should we have traded from them? Do all trades work out? Are they all improvements? Ever heard the saying, Sometimes the best trades are the ones you DON'T make?
  7. You and I are not reading that sentence the same! Is it possible that Oakland and Detriot are not as good as they were before they traded Cespedes, Jackson and Smyly? If we trade Jones for Price or Lester, are we a better team?
  8. So, regardless of cost, make deals to give the illusion it makes the team that much better then it already was.
  9. But he's a starter pitching out of the bullpen.
  10. Thought, Matusz is making 2.4 million this season and will get arbitration next season, which means he'll make more then that. So, we offer him a QO, let him walk, get a draft pick, and save the money to sign Miller. Problem solved.
  11. No, players traded in season can't be offered qualifying offer. Only original team can.
  12. I voted it's a steal even though I was closer to being fine with the price. I'm not going to worry about or miss ERod.
  13. That's only cause he was hyped as Mauer with power and hasn't lived up to it. As catchers go, he's still pretty good with the bat.
  14. That's not the answer to his comment. He said mediocre players, I don't classify Wieters as mediocre.
  15. If I was to answer that, I'd say the bullpen as a group. To expect us to have the same 1-run record and extra inning record, is probably unrealistic.
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