Posted by MikeT23 on 8/4/2016 9:08:00 PM (view original):
"We got way too many young, good, cheap players!!!!! What the **** should we do?!!?!??!?!?!"
"Trade them cheap, young, good players away!!!!!!!!"
Yeah, not really what I was saying there. What I am saying is, if your team is close, you built it up to your fans, are you going to turn to your fan base and say "I know we have a very good, contending, YOUNG team, but we're gonna hold on to that surplus talent so we can be in an even better position 2 years later."
From where I come, people get ******.
The Phillies only won 1 WS and lost another. But each year they went out and got the pieces they (thought they) needed. Did those pieces guarantee a championship? No. But did they improve the team? Yes.
"But SJ, they gave up all those prospects! They lost in most of those trades" - thats what dahs is saying.
Lets see who they got -
2009 - Cliff Lee, Ben Francisco
Gave up - RHP Jason Knapp, RHP Carlos Carrasco, SS Jason Donald and C Lou Marson.
2010 - Roy Oswalt
Gave up - LHP J.A. Happ, OF Anthony Gose and SS Jonathan Villar.
2011 - Hunter Pence
1B Jonathan Singleton, Jarred Cosart, RHP Josh Zeid and OF Domingo Santana.
Of the players that are Major Leaguers that they traded away, we have - Carlos Carrasco (Pretty good SP starting in 2014), JA Happ (Up and down SP who has only been above average the last year or so), Villar (ditto), Cozart (a bust), and Santana and Singleton (still waiting to see what'll come there). The rest (including Gose) are useless.
So they shouldn't have made those trades because, gee, they should have saved them for 2011? 2012?