Big time deal between Bill and Spencer that will undoubtedly have big consequences in the Standings. I believe that Bill stole this one. He gets two incredibly solid, veteran player who consistently put up All Star numbers year in year out. He gives up Dice-K, who is having a great season and Hafner who is struggling with a .215 batting average. Dice-K is not replaced in this deal, but the added BA value of losing Pronk and adding Young and Manny will be significant.
The problem I see in the deal is that Spencer trades two great players, Manny and Young for one player having a great year (not sure Dice-K is an "ace" yet) and one player having a terrible year. Too many eggs being placed in one bucket for my liking.
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I'm with you on this one, Mark. Bill is giving up Hafner, who may or may not have something wrong with him, Dice K, who walks so many guys. Manny is off to a great start this year, and while he may have trouble keeping that going and will miss a game here or there, he's still Manny Ramirez. Young is one of the best offensive shortstops in the AL, and is actually hitting for some power this year. I think Bill definitely won on this one,
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I actually agree that Bill has the better end of this deal. Sadly, I really had no choice. I tried to float my outfielders including Manny with everyone but no one was willing to trade premiere pitching. The only value to me is that dice-k may be a better keeper in the 6th round than any other person in the deal.
I agree with Spencer's assessment. The fact is that pitching seems to be extremely expensive right now. I was looking at trading for some pitching to fill Daisuke's rotation spot, but I wasn't able to find a good match.
Basically, Spencer definitely needed to make this deal, and I didn't. Because of that I was able to make a more favorable deal. And even though it looks like I "won" this one, Spencer needed pitching to have any kind of chance at all, and none of the players he traded are keepers. At worst, it costs him some points in a year that was looking like a disaster to begin with. At best, Pronk bounces back and he doesn't give up too much offensively, except some average. Don't underestimate Yuniesky Betancourt either. As best I can tell, he is a homeless man's Michael Young, with a little average and single digit HR and SB totals.
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