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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
This is why I wanted them to snag Kimbrel so badly because he was for this year and next. He was pricier than I thought though.
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Baseball prospects are funny. I was going thru some old Baseball cards I have from like 1990 and 1991 because my wife knocked them off a shelf and spilled everything in the shoe box. The star rookie/top prospect lists from those years...Mike Mussina was about the only guy who had a notable career. Other than that, it's a list of guys only hard core fans would remember.
I look at the Phillies not wanting to give Kyle Drabek in the Roy Halladay deal...they cost themselves a real shot at the 2010 series because they would not give up a guy who amounted to nothing to get a proven horse at the time.
If there's a player that can make that difference to get you over the edge...pay the price and go for it is my theory. Don't live in fear because you don't want to give up Jeff Bagwell to get Danny Darwin. Even the R.A. Dickey trade...what's Syndergaard doing these days...he's effed my fantasy keeper team for the last three years.
So for that reason, I like the Berrios trade, and would be fine with getting Kimbrel, Baseball is a sport where you need to go for it, or be rebuilding. There is no middling playoff teams and don't get stuck in that zone. The Jays spent like 15 years there of being good, but not good enough or bad enough.