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Haren to the D-backs

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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,492 ✭✭✭✭✭
    good trade for both teams
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  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sweet move by DBacks - Yanks & Sox must be surprised.
    Mike
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  • MajorDanbyMajorDanby Posts: 1,343
    d'backs also traded their closer to the stros.
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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,492 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Sweet move by DBacks - Yanks & Sox must be surprised. >>



    more than surprised, my guess is that both front offices are relieved that the other did not get him
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  • halosfanhalosfan Posts: 2,634 ✭✭✭✭
    I haven't looked into the details of this trade but this one, coupled with some earlier trades, puzzles me. Why on earth are teams trading 5 or 6 for 1? When the heck did that become commonplace?

    Are the buying teams that unsure of their prospects?
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  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    impressive 1-2 punch for the D-Backs. Pretty much just ensured a division win lol.
  • maxdomemaxdome Posts: 87 ✭✭✭
    Just think if any of the 6 prospects that the A's received for their best pitcher amount to anything they will be traded. The A's are a farm team for the rest of the league.
  • 80sToyguy80sToyguy Posts: 383
    ??? A farm team that makes the playoffs at least every 2 or 3 years, I'd take it! It's the economics of baseball, small market team, 2 or 3 years good, 2 or 3 years not so good. Of course opposed to Tampa or KC I think they're doing something right.
    Jay
  • TheVonTheVon Posts: 2,725 ✭
    Here's what Mlb.com had to say about the prospects Oakland picked up in this trade. I would hate to see Haren go if i was an As fan, but these prospects sound promising.

    Gonzalez was regarded as the club's best position player prospect, but he became expendable when Arizona signed Eric Byrnes to a three-year, $30 million deal last August. The D-backs appear to be set in the outfield for the next several years with Byrnes, Chris Young and Justin Upton. The club also could have felt free to deal Gonzalez because of the presence of outfielder Gerardo Parra, who played at Class A Visalia and South Bend last year.

    Smith and Anderson were both highly regarded pitching prospects in the organization. Smith, a sixth-round pick in the 2005 First-Year Player Draft, had some injury issues last season, but pitched well in the Arizona Fall League and could have had a chance to pitch for the D-backs at some time during 2008.

    Anderson was selected out of high school in the second round of the 2006 First-Year Player Draft and was arguably the organization's best pitching prospect other than Max Scherzer. Anderson, who will turn 20 in February, started last year with South Bend before being promoted to Visalia.

    Cunningham, 21, was acquired last summer from the White Sox, and in 31 games for Double-A Mobile, he hit .288 with five homers and 20 RBIs while compiling an .898 OPS.

    Eveland, 24, was acquired by the D-backs from the Brewers prior to last season. Scouts rave about the left-hander's stuff and he's always put up good numbers in the Minor Leagues, but he has yet to translate that success to the big league level.

    Carter, who will be 21 next week, was picked up during the Winter Meetings from the White Sox in exchange for outfielder Carlos Quentin. Carter hit .291 with 25 homers and 93 RBIs for Class A Kannopolis.

  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    So, the A's make the playoffs with their bargain basement teams...sadly they don't get very far.
  • 80sToyguy80sToyguy Posts: 383
    The thing is, once you get in you never know, at least you're in with a chance, however small.
    Jay
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