I just appreciate that the Reds are finally exploiting market inefficiencies. Rolling out the red carpet for anyone named Jose, for instance.
I just appreciate that the Reds are finally exploiting market inefficiencies. Rolling out the red carpet for anyone named Jose, for instance.
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I’ve always cringed at deals with nebulous principals (not just the Reds) because you can pretty much guarantee the team not getting a single stand-out principal is going to lose the deal. It’s just the nature of talent. People get blurred vision about it and start to believe there’s more talent in the world than there is.
What’s done is done and move on and all that.
But I still think the Reds messed up Finnegan by riding him so hard in 2016.
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757690 (03-30-2019),Hoosier Red (04-01-2019),mth123 (03-30-2019),Revering4Blue (03-30-2019),Ron Madden (03-30-2019)
I don’t know who said that, but it wasn’t me. I judge trades in the moment. You make that trade every time. The reds had 2 months of Cueto. They needed young pitching. They got 3 young pitchers, 2 of which were thought very highly of at the time. They didn’t pan out. Welcome to pro baseball.
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My take is of course you can judge trades in the moment, but you have to wait to see if you were wrong or not. In this trade, there were times (roughly a year after the deal iirc) were it looked like this might shape up to be a huge steal for the Reds. Finnegan looked like he was ready to either join the rotation or handle the closer role. Reed quickly became one of the best starting LHP prospects in all of baseball. That's potentially 2 dirt cheap presumably legit LH starters. I even liked a lot of what we saw from Lamb. Unfortunately Finnegan and Lamb have seemingly been constantly injured since then and Reed hasn't been able to harness his stuff yet (although I haven't given up hope.)
And of course on the other hand, Cueto has had his own share of injuries and basically had 1 good season among the 3 and 1/3 (roughly) seasons since we traded him. Not to mention the fact that he made over $60M during that time and at age 33 now has at least another $70M coming his way (if you want to assume the Reds were able to sign him).
Last edited by Redeyecat; 03-30-2019 at 05:26 PM.
Revering4Blue (03-30-2019),Ron Madden (03-30-2019)
Sticky Finnegan just couldn't stick with the Reds.
Kingspoint (03-31-2019)
Any other former-Reds that the Royals should be looking at? Brandon Phillips? Scott Feldman? Cliff Pennington?Jeffrey Flanagan
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Per sources, the Royals have discussed the Brandon Finnegan and Dan Straily situations, but it's not likely anything will go further than that. They are at 39 on the 40-man roster and that final spot likely goes to Homer Bailey.
Wonderful Monds (04-01-2019)
Tom Servo (04-01-2019)
for whatever reason, they're being coy about him being the 5th starter.
https://www.mlb.com/news/homer-baile...ll-from-royals
It was either Homer or it was his clone: https://www.mlb.com/royals/news/home...ll-from-royals
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757690 (04-01-2019)
So this from the Athletic was premature:
https://theathletic.com/877812/2019/...-for-rotation/
Homer must have been underwhelming this Spring
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