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For Shame Hardcore Pirate FansI've been gone since Friday and just got back in last night. First thing I did was check the Pirates website: Bucs Trade Lawton. Then I did a little jig, then I went to bed.This morning I returned to work, and when I procrastinate I find myself in a shitstorm of trade analysis. According to newspapers and fans, Lawton went from being a detriment to the team to being the best leadoff hitter in the National League in one Sunday afternoon. We all believe Slawo sucks and is over-rated. Yet we expect that we should get more then a can of beans for him. I'm just conjecturing, but I'm pretty sure no GM outside of Pittsburgh is that naive. This is why signing over-the-hill veterans for trade value doesn't really work: you sign crap and hope you get lucky so you can trade it for younger crap and hope you get lucky again. If you really want more then a can of beans then I got a can in my pantry that the label came off of. It could be anything, you give me Lawton and the can is yours, I'll have him do my laundry and stuff. Oh you want to throw in cash too, sweet! Littlefield's biggest problem as far as I can tell was insisting he would "not accept any deal that did not include a Major League Player." This thinking is flawed because you're more likely to not get lucky with Major League crap then minor crap. Example: Say you have 10 Chad Hermansens on your MLB roster, at the end of the season, you have 10 Chad Hermansens. Woopdee Fuck. Now say you have 10 Chad Hermansens on your AA team. In a couple years you probably have six Hermansens, a couple Tike Redmans, a Chris Duffy, and maybe, just maybe 1 Brian Giles. Who knows? But there's at least a chance. Not to mention that the real reason Lawton had to go was to give too many outfield prospects a chance to play. So Littlefield has poor reasoning, but why does he think like that? Could it possibly be because fans are clamoring to stop rebuilding and field a winner already, and increase payroll. Meanwhile, there is nothing in our lower minors and the only thing to buy is Mike Lowell. Yet somehow being more knowledgeable then your casual fan, we buy into this. Shit people, this is exactly how it got jacked the last time. Management got themselves too attached to players who weren't part of the future just so they could make it look like they didn't mess it up. All the while the minor league system withered away and died. By the time those guys sucked up to their potential, there was nothing left to replace them so we got bigger pieces of crap to jump in and play. Oi, I could go on. I will on another date. The point to the Pirates is this. Forget about what fans want, or what you think fans want; even the best of us will change our minds in an inning break, and until you make it to the post-season whatever you decide will be wrong anyway. Just worry about how you're are going to put together a solid team, and if your thinking is anything other then that, then please go away! posted by Rory at 4:57 PM | |
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