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Jays trade Wells to Angels for Rivera/Napoli


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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 21, 2011 -> 07:00 PM)
Trading Drabek to shed Wells' salary is a fireable offense. You don't trade the best pitcher in the game in Halladay and get back a prized SP prospect to send him off a year later just to shed salary.

 

Just when AA was doing well, he makes a really weird and fire-able move.

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yeah, no other mentions of Drabek, so don't think he's going... weird move by Angels, I know they're a big revenue team and they completely struck out this season, but it's like 80m for 4 years left on that deal, will be interesting to see what Jays are sending in $$$ if anything.

 

This might be a stretch, but any way we hear a Pujols extension with Cards is done in the next week? Possibly Angels heard it's near, who knows, just throwing stuff at the wall because as it is this is strange

 

and as Heyman pointed out Wells is a better hitter at home than on the road and it was significant last year.

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Well the crazy part is that Toronto got better in this deal. Haven't looked, but I doubt that Rivera is good defensively, and Snider is probably average, but Davis is fast enough that he should be above average in CF. Rivera is a league average, perhaps a little above league average LF offensively, but the real win is Napoli because even considering that John Buck had a good year offensively last year, Napoli is even better offensively, and Arencibia is a pretty damn good prospect too.

 

Every offseason, there always seems to be a move that makes you say "whaaa?" This is that trade.

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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 21, 2011 -> 11:35 PM)
Well the crazy part is that Toronto got better in this deal. Haven't looked, but I doubt that Rivera is good defensively, and Snider is probably average, but Davis is fast enough that he should be above average in CF. Rivera is a league average, perhaps a little above league average LF offensively, but the real win is Napoli because even considering that John Buck had a good year offensively last year, Napoli is even better offensively, and Arencibia is a pretty damn good prospect too.

 

Every offseason, there always seems to be a move that makes you say "whaaa?" This is that trade.

 

So far, this offseason has started and ended with "WTF" moves. First Jayson Werth's insane contract, then this trade.

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QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jan 21, 2011 -> 11:11 PM)
So far, this offseason has started and ended with "WTF" moves. First Jayson Werth's insane contract, then this trade.

 

The Jayson Werth move atleast makes sense from a baseball standpoint, though it was financially f'ed up. This makes no sense at all. Juan Rivera himself could outproduce Vernon Wells, and he is due like 95% less money, and on top of that, the Angels gave up Napoli too.

 

I imagine this is the kind of move that has blindsided quite a few GMs and probably Ken Williams too, because Quentin for Napoli would have made a ton of sense in early December.

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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 22, 2011 -> 03:32 AM)
The Jayson Werth move atleast makes sense from a baseball standpoint, though it was financially f'ed up. This makes no sense at all. Juan Rivera himself could outproduce Vernon Wells, and he is due like 95% less money, and on top of that, the Angels gave up Napoli too.

 

I imagine this is the kind of move that has blindsided quite a few GMs and probably Ken Williams too, because Quentin for Napoli would have made a ton of sense in early December.

 

Ok, but you can't say that Werth's signing was good from baseball standpoint, but not financially, and then immediately talk about the financial standpoint of the Well's trade. Wells for Napoli and Rivera isn't really that bad of a move, but it's financially f'ed up, just like the Werth deal is also financially f'ed up.

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