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New Brian Roberts Thread - Thursday's Reporting

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blueberryale77 Hangout Veteran Council

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I am glad that it is finally occuring. An offseason without the trade of Roberts would be incomplete. Bedard can wait, Roberts needs to be sold now.

That's ridiculous. Bedard was the one who had his career season last year and had a large number of teams interested. With Roberts, there were a number of teams trying to cheap it out at his position that could have become players is MacPhail had waited, plus he always looks better at the deadline than in the offseason. Plus, the return is absolutely nothing to write home about, even for the majority of people who support the trade. If Bedard isn't traded now it will be a major, major failure by MacPhail. Being the ace pitcher on a truly terrible team that is obviously already in rebuilding mode is highly unlikely to do anything good for Bedard's stats.

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That's ridiculous. Bedard was the one who had his career season last year and had a large number of teams interested. With Roberts, there were a number of teams trying to cheap it out at his position that could have become players is MacPhail had waited, plus he always looks better at the deadline than in the offseason. Plus, the return is absolutely nothing to write home about, even for the majority of people who support the trade. If Bedard isn't traded now it will be a major, major failure by MacPhail. Being the ace pitcher on a truly terrible team that is obviously already in rebuilding mode is highly unlikely to do anything good for Bedard's stats.
I agree that Bedard is a much more urgent priority to move than Roberts.

Roberts should certainly be traded if the right offer comes along though, and Murton, Gallagher, and Patterson is definitely enough to pull the trigger. Sucks to lose a solid player and a fan and community favorite, but its the right move for the direction of the franchise.

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That's ridiculous. Bedard was the one who had his career season last year and had a large number of teams interested. With Roberts, there were a number of teams trying to cheap it out at his position that could have become players is MacPhail had waited, plus he always looks better at the deadline than in the offseason. Plus, the return is absolutely nothing to write home about, even for the majority of people who support the trade. If Bedard isn't traded now it will be a major, major failure by MacPhail. Being the ace pitcher on a truly terrible team that is obviously already in rebuilding mode is highly unlikely to do anything good for Bedard's stats.

I think the Roberts trade had to happen first to get them to sweeten the Bedard deal by flipping a player from the Roberts trade, most likely Murton.

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Also just received info that the Reds have up'd the offer a great deal for Bedard.
This is much bigger news than Roberts, IMO.

Does this mean they upped from Votto to Bruce, or from Stubbs to Hamilton/Encarnacion?

Or was that just exactly what your guy told you and you're as anxious / curious as the rest of us fiends?

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