tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1995185573026568076.post1752113050545062269..comments2023-06-28T05:22:48.038-04:00Comments on Heath Cline.com: Someone actually voted Colorado as a top 25 team?!Heath Clinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18246298709118406880noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1995185573026568076.post-70006295669564591882008-08-01T16:27:00.000-04:002008-08-01T16:27:00.000-04:00I have to disagree with you on the Rays trade dead...I have to disagree with you on the Rays trade deadline activity (or lackthereof). I know you've talked about it several times on your show that this organization has mishandled their personnel time and time again....until this year. This year, they've won with their homegrown, young talent, sprinkled in a few vets, and got good character guys to replace the knuckleheads they shipped out in the offseason. Why should they be critized so harshly for trusting the guys they've got and their system? I must be the only one who sees their W-L record as extraordinary because nobody, except for Longoria and Navarro, is hitting right now. Isn't it logical to think that Crawford, Upton, and Pena will start hitting better? If those guys do, and they get anything from Baldelli in the second half, then they'll be even better than they are now.<BR/><BR/>Also, why should the Rays give up top prospects for a pretty good LF in Bay, then stick him in RF. It's a position he rarely plays, and must not be good at, or the Pirates already would've put him there. They've actually put Doug freakin Mientkiewicz in RF instead of Bay at times this season. He'd be mediocre at best out there, and defense is one of the reasons the Rays are where they are. <BR/>Now, if it's Matt Holliday they're trying to get, then fine, they should've given up the prospects, but it wasn't. Apparently, it would've taken trading Price to get Holliday, and that wasn't going to happen. <BR/>No, it's Jason Bay, who hit .240 last year. Forgive me for thinking that his presence on the Rays wouldn't have exactly turned them into the '27 Yankees. <BR/>Besides, I'm not sure the Sox or Yankees are any better now than they were before the deadline and certainly not before this season started. Jason Bay is NOT Manny Ramirez, and he certainly isn't worth everything the Sox gave up. I know the Sox are thinking addition-by-subtraction, but asking Jason Bay to do what Manny did in that lineup and not miss a beat is ridiculous, and watch what happens to J D Drew now that the pressure is on him to produce. <BR/>As for the Yankees, yeah, getting Nady and Pudge were nice, but if you were Brian Cashman and somebody came to you in March and said "We'll give you Xavier Nady, Damaso Marte and Ivan Rodriguez for Hideki Matsui, Jorge Posada, Kyle Farnsworth, and prospects, would you do that trade? No, and neither would anybody else except for Billy Beane. The Yankees only made their moves because of those injuries, and at best, Marte-for-Farnsworth is a wash, Pudge-for-Posada is a slight decrease, and Nady-for-Matsui is a big decrease. Yet, everyone LOVES what the Yankees did. I don't get it.Jeremiahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15860192540513088663noreply@blogger.com