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Originally Posted by Pagal4321
#WishTheyHadSyndergaard
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LOL, get over yourself. I've forgotten more about baseball than you'll ever know. You probably just started watching this year like 90% of the rest of the fans (not that there's anything wrong with that, generally). I suffered for 20 years and that trade was like a kick in the groin at the time, and now. Especially with how much AA had been building up the farm to that point, it was devastating to see our two best prospects punted for a 4 billion year old knuckle baller, even if he did just win the Cy Young.
Anyone who thinks the Jays couldn't have had the season they had without RA Dickey knows less about baseball than my 8 year old son. Top 3 pitchers are very hard to acquire, depth starters are not and Dickey is depth starter. He pitched 6 freaking innings during the postseason, that really shows you the value the Blue Jays see in him.
He cost the Jays so many times in the first half, it was unbearable. It is not simply washed out by good/acceptable performances in the second half. It's like saying Hiller is a good goalie because he makes some highlight reel saves and has decent stats. He's still inconsistent, lets in soft goals and is generally useless in a key role on a contender, just like 6 inning Dickey.
Dickey was brought in to be an ace and he ended up a 3/4. Snydergaard will be an ace and d'Arnaud is a stud. It was a bad trade. End of story. Dickey is not irreplaceable. End of story. Pointing these things out is just pointing these things out, they are FACTS. No need to get uspet with facts, even if the Jays are winning.
Dickey was amazing with the Mets, flat out amazing. But the AL East is a different story and so is the Rogers Center. I never bought into the hype of that trade or the Marlins trade because I actually follow baseball every year, not just when the Jays are good. Those were bad trades (the Marlins trade was less bad), even though pieces from those trades helped the team win this year. These aren't mutually exclusive concepts, I don't see why anyone could possibly be upset by them. You can make a bad trade that helps you now but hurts you more down the road.
Since he's been in Toronto, Dickey's been good/okay at times, horrid at others, and great a very, very small percentage of the time. Altogether, he's been incredibly inconsistent, more so than any other pitcher I've seen this side of Kelvim Escobar. Inconsistency is the last thing you want in a starter, I can't believe I would even have to defend that, it's just a given. Average all the time is better than 'lights out or lit up'. I really doubt they exercise his option, there are far better ways to spend $12 million dollars.
Before you go there, yes you were directing that post at me.