Question of the week: Grade the trade deadline

[mvp 78]

32 minutes ago, Hugh2 said:

Another fact though, is all the short stops in question did NOT get traded at the deadline. 

We didn't get Otto Lopez, but no one did

We didn't get Francisco Lindor, but on one did

We didn't trade for C.J. Abrams, but on one did

We didn't trade for Eli De La Cruz, but no one did.

We didn't trade for Zach Neto, but no one did. 

 

This tells me one of two things happened in each of these situations.  A.) the player was just simply not for sale and there was nothing that could have been done. or B.) The price was so high that not a single team in baseball was willing to go that high and considering what we paid for 1.5 years of a catcher I'd be scared to see what the price for some of those guys might have been. 

I'm not sure we can blame Breslow for not picking up a short stop......no one did.  He did get a 2nd who had the best offensive numbers moved at the deadline.  Unfortunately he got hurt. 

[Hugh2]

30 minutes ago, notin said:

It tells me the price for any of those shortstops included Arias +, and if there was such thing as a capital plus sign, it would be applicable here…

Yes, but keep in mind that no other team traded for those guys either.  Every other team interested looked at the price and said "yeah....that's too much"

I'm sure they wanted Arias PLUS a boatload. 

[mvp 78]

4 minutes ago, Hugh2 said:

Yes, but keep in mind that no other team traded for those guys either.  Every other team interested looked at the price and said "yeah....that's too much"

I'm sure they wanted Arias PLUS a boatload. 

I'm glad Craig did his due diligence. I'm glad he ultimately passed. 

[JoeBrady]

1 hour ago, Hugh2 said:

Another fact though, is all the short stops in question did NOT get traded at the deadline. 

That's always a pet peeve of mine.  If a guy gets traded in the off-season, then questioning whether we should've matched is fair game.  But if a team held onto their player, it either means they had no intention of trading them, or their ask was so high that none of the other 29 teams wanted him.

edit-Having finished reading your post, it appears that you said the same thing.