Roberto Petagine and DT Cromer...oops, wrong Red's chat
Roberto Petagine and DT Cromer...oops, wrong Red's chat
Never overlook the obvious
I think you have to distinguish between overrated before they came to the Reds and overrated after they left.
Once you have to set up the scale based on 1. number of posters overrating player, and 2. Actual performance of player since being dealt.
High on list #1: Denorfia, Broussard, Kearns, Lopez
High on list #2(High being lesser performance): Lizard, Broussard, Lopez
My number one player is Lopez followed closely by Broussard.
We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective ~ Kurt Vonnegut
lotta Coffey drinkers out there
I drank the (Willie) Greene Kool-aid.
Reggie Taylor
I'll also throw out Jacobo Sequea.
When he was thrown in with Ryan for Juan Guzman, boy were there some worked up folks.
But that's going back a couple of message boards.
Redszone as a whole? Chris Denorfia, and as reds44 said, it's not even close.
Personally? I really bought into Brandon Claussen.
"Strickland Propane... Taste the meat, not the heat." - Hank Hill
I remember there was a lot of speculation a couple of days just before "the trade" went down - if I am not mistaken, there were a lot of rumors that Kearns and Lopez would be dealt for Willis and Cabrera. I think one scenario even had Tejado coming over for those two, with perhaps the lost of a couple of fringe prospects at most.
The fact that any of us (including myself) even thought it was a remote possibility shows how overrated those two were.
I remember many being irate when Denorfia got traded to Oakland last year - despite the fact he was already going to miss the entire year. He does not seem to be dominating the AL so far, but it is early.
Wasn't there some thought that Ryan Wagner was going to be the "think of the future"?
Ryan Wagner was the going to be the next great closer....
Now his arm has fallen off
I think that Coffey is a guy that a lot of people were rooting for, plus his brother was posting on the site. He had great numbers in AAA and IIRC he started off really well in his ML debut (until they tried him at closer).
I don't think he ever approached Denorfia-level affection.
"The players make the manager, it's never the other way." - Sparky Anderson
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