TOR/OAK Agree to Deal

[Needle Juice]

Huff is a notoriously slow starter (and even Rob acknowledges this) and his average was at .246 after April last year.

Again, I don't see the difference between this deal and the Reyes deal. It's not fair to veto one deal and not the other.


I also want to bring up the logic Rob used to veto one of my deals:

"One problem with this trade is that Crisp + a mid-level prospect (Duda) was traded for an upper echelon prospect (Colome).  So in this trade his value was the difference between a mid-level prospect and upper echelon prospect.  Later that day, his value is being represented as the better player of two traded for a top level Catcher."

Applying the same logic to this deal, Taylor was acquired in the following deal:

CI Tatis, Fernando, $2m (2011)
OF Taylor, Michael, $0.5m (P-n/a)

for
CI Martinez, Francisco, $0.5m (2012)
P Tejeda, Robinson, $2m (2012)

Taylor's value is established as a low level prospect (who by the way has a bad contract) plus an overpaid reliever. Yet a month later, he is traded for a CI that finished top 10 in both 2008 and 2010.

For the record, I don't have any vested interest in either deals. I barely play PHI or OAK.  Just looking for some consistency.

This certainly is not VMART for COCO and Wolf and either was Reyes.  This is part of the logic, there were several other reasons given as well.   

So, Howe what is your solution when no one will be on the TC because they don't want to put up with this BS?

The bottom line is, if Jeff would have stepped up and said I want this deal to go through and this is why, things would be different.