Post#229 » by Chach » Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:18 pm
Everyone values everything differently. My team is young enough as it is and I don't follow the minors enough that draft picks are an asset to me. By adding Rizzo, I don't need to add much in terms of young players and I can ride my awesome core for the next 3-4 years. As great as Ubaldo is, he's had a 4.00 ERA since June of last year. Outside of two Pedro-esque months, he's been slightly above average. In exchange, I get a 21 y/o who is putting up a 1.200 OPS in AAA and while he'll lose a bit of pop in Petco, Rizzo is the type of all around player who will contribute inspite of that. Hell he even stole 10 bases last season. AND I get a really interesting young pitcher who has electric stuff and compliments Feliz. One of the two will close and the other will start and they will both be nasty at either spot.
I'm going to be unreasonable if you are asking me to part with something I have little depth at, like someone who is slobbering all over Tulo. But I have plenty of OF and I had plenty of SP so I'm willing to go back and forth on those. But you're not going to get me to bite on Tulo for 70 cents on the dollar, you are going to have to overpay for a player like that so I'm not going to take a trade proposal seriously and I'm not going to put much effort into a counter offer if that's not the case.