This isn't rebuilding.Originally Posted by RedlegJake
This is using all your money to buy a wrecking ball to clear a job site and then looking confused when your workers ask you where the materials are for the new house.
This isn't rebuilding.
This is using all your money to buy a wrecking ball to clear a job site and then looking confused when your workers ask you where the materials are for the new house.
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I'm becoming more optimistic that the PTBNL's are of higher quality since the Reds included cash with Dunn in the deal...
No offense to you, I think you're a funny guy most of the time.....But I don't give a flying flapjack about justifying a return right now.
There is no way you can justify that return, anyway.
It's easy. Just ask the Diamondbacks how much a division title is worth to them. If it's just Dallas Buck and some leftover puke from last night's party, you walk away.
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" ~ Jim Bouton
I do agree, though, that it doesn't look like Walt is going to do this half-way rebuild thing the franchise has been stuck in for the past two decades.
“Every level he goes to, he is going to compete. They will know who he is at every level he goes to.” -- ED on EDLC
I agree but hopefully with Walt at the helm he'll recognize the time to trade. For now he's clearing the decks and instead of just slapping a coat of paint on the same tired structure he's rebuilding the framework. That may hurt before it helps.
I like that approach too. Although that approach applied to Dunn would have made him an ex-Red about 20 months ago, and I can only imagine how that would have gone over, considering the gnashing of teeth over losing a few (definitely) meaningless weeks' production before (probably) losing him to free agency.
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That one completely broke my heart as a 12-year-old. I'm not feeling a whole lot better about this one but I hope Jocketty proves me wrong.
"I can make all the stadiums rock."
-Air Supply
It would be foolhardy to declair this the worst trade ever without even knowing the return.
However, the chances of this one turning out good are very slim (as it appears right now).
Especially since we just traded our only hammer for some bent nails.
“Every level he goes to, he is going to compete. They will know who he is at every level he goes to.” -- ED on EDLC
Make that three
Parra is raw but has talent. He's been rushed a bit but has hit decent at lower levels. Brooks Brown has good stuff but I still want more than that.
So far Walt is the only GM who's realized that this team, in it's current construct, was going NOWHERE.
He's the only one who's been willing to tear it down....now hopefully he can be the one to build it the right way. The GMs before him simply reshuffled deck chairs for 7 years.
And we know this how? I must have left my crystal ball that looks into the future somewhere else...
The Reds have been rebuilding for so long that it's become old hat.
"Enjoy this Reds fans, you are watching a legend grow up before your very eyes" ... DoogMinAmo on Adam Dunn
We don't even know the entire return just yet.
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