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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2011 2:23:55 GMT -5
What was your best move of the off-season? Best trade, best drop, best bid, best Major or Minor league pick, etc. To date, one month into the season, what do you see as the best thing you did to improve your team?
We'll see how things pan out through future years, and I think my best moves were:
1) Giving Brett Lawrie & Anthony Rizzo for Andre Ethier (aka: Triple Crown Candidate)
2) Three trades:
ONE: giving Tommy Hunter & Zack Braddock for Cliff Lee & Peter Bourjos
TWO: giving Cliff Lee for Max Scherzer, Mike Minor, & Edwin Encarnacion
THREE: giving Mike Minor for Brandon Best.
Started with Hunter, Braddock
Ended with Bourjos, Scherzer, Belt, Encarnacion
Dang, that is nice.
How about you?
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Post by Reds GM (Graham) on Apr 26, 2011 6:25:38 GMT -5
I traded Peter Stastny, James Neal, Ales Hemsky, Michael Del Zotto and Nikolai Khabibulin for the Sedin twins. Then I picked up Matt Calvert, Mark Fayne and Jhonas Enroth on the waiver-wire.
SCORE!!
Still finished 4th.
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Post by Former Brown Sox GM (Bigman) on Apr 26, 2011 19:42:49 GMT -5
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Post by airweino on Apr 27, 2011 0:11:20 GMT -5
Ethier = Triple Crown? Wow.
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Post by Former Brown Sox GM (Bigman) on Apr 27, 2011 1:14:03 GMT -5
Kemp has the better stats...So far
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2011 10:14:41 GMT -5
Season ain't over.
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Post by BK Dodgers GM (Man) on Apr 27, 2011 10:43:01 GMT -5
Aye, season ain't over yet, and Ethier will come back to earth soon enough -- not that he's got enough of any of the 3 cats to ever come close to winning a Triple Crown of course...  ;D |
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Post by Former Royals GM (Shawn) on Apr 27, 2011 16:26:39 GMT -5
Well, I liked a lot of my moves, but I'm biased, right? The one that strangely worked out quite well I believe is trading prospect Chris Carter to the Giants for then potential free agent Chad Billingsley. On the surface it looks a bit ugly for the Royals, mainly because a Franchise tag had to be used as well. But I was tickled when Bills signed an extension before Opening Day. Sure, he got lit up in the first inning today, but I think he'll be a solid SP for the money down the road. Carter is still sort of a question mark really. |
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Post by BK Dodgers GM (Man) on Jul 30, 2011 15:28:32 GMT -5
As most of us expected, Ethier did come back down to earth quickly enough (w/in a couple weeks of the OP) -- and is actually currently ever so slightly behind his career norms.
Anyhoo, still not sure what my best moves were during this past offseason, but maybe my general approach just doesn't lend itself to this kind of (relatively short term) analysis...
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Post by BK Dodgers GM (Man) on Sept 23, 2011 16:17:22 GMT -5
Interestingly, looks like Kemp has a real shot at the Triple Crown w/ 6 games to go -- Ethier was never a real candidate for that.
Kemp's only 1 HR behind Pujols and a few percentage points behind Braun and Reyes in AVG -- probably only needs to rack up a couple extra hits (more than Braun and Reyes) to catch them for AVG, if they all play the rest of the way.
So I guess here's the question then. Would *you* vote for Kemp to be NL MVP, if you had a ballot? If not Kemp, then who?
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Post by Former Reds GM (Patrick) on Sept 23, 2011 18:18:08 GMT -5
He's the NL MVP for me, without question. I think you can make a strong case for Kershaw as the Cy Young. Imagine if Dodgers players win both awards and they finish below .500.
I also think this thread shows why you shouldn't judge deals until after the season. I bet Tigers wishes he had Lawrie now.
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Post by Former Giants GM (Andrew) on Jan 7, 2015 10:19:57 GMT -5
Funny reading this with the benefit of hindsight.
Sent from my LG-LS720 using proboards
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Post by Astros GM (Kris) on Jan 7, 2015 10:31:08 GMT -5
Hahaha. Yeah, he really ripped me off in that Ethier for Rizzo and Lawrie deal, huh?
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Post by Reds GM (Graham) on Jan 7, 2015 15:24:25 GMT -5
You win some, you lose some. Either way its best to crow about them much, much later!
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Post by Former Twins GM (Steve) on Jan 7, 2015 22:39:05 GMT -5
"traded Peter Stastny, James Neal, Ales Hemsky, Michael Del Zotto and Nikolai Khabibulin for the Sedin twins. Then I picked up Matt Calvert, Mark Fayne and Jhonas Enroth on the waiver-wire.
SCORE!!
Still finished 4th."
How many of these folks are still playing baseball?
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Post by BK Dodgers GM (Man) on Jan 8, 2015 19:26:29 GMT -5
"traded Peter Stastny, James Neal, Ales Hemsky, Michael Del Zotto and Nikolai Khabibulin for the Sedin twins. Then I picked up Matt Calvert, Mark Fayne and Jhonas Enroth on the waiver-wire. SCORE!! Still finished 4th." How many of these folks are still playing baseball? H Pretty sure Graham was just poking fun w/ that post.  |
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Post by Former Giants GM (Andrew) on Jan 8, 2015 22:33:51 GMT -5
I'm not so sure... |
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Post by Former Twins GM (Steve) on Jan 9, 2015 8:13:46 GMT -5
wow....i didn't even recognize the hockey players...I mean I know they're hockey players...that did not click. Been a crazy week for me.
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Post by Reds GM (Graham) on Jan 11, 2015 13:38:15 GMT -5
I wasn't poking fun at all. It may not have been this league or even baseball, but it was my best off-season move that year.
Still have the Sedins, still haven't won that league, but am currently leading it this season!
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Post by Former Giants GM (Andrew) on Feb 23, 2016 12:43:09 GMT -5
Bump. Anyone care to share theirs?
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;D
