When Hank-Stein said last night that they had the best offer on the table for Santana, even better than the package that Boston put together, you had to know that the fat-boy up North was just licking his chops.
Well, without further ado, I give you Curt Schilling’s rebuttal to Stein’s remarks:
If we make the move we’ll have done so with Theo knowing whatever he had to trade to acquire him he can restock those spots either from within, or via trade. How much is too much when you’re talking about trading for the best left handed pitcher in the game? How much is too much when you consider what he and Josh could do over the next 5-6 years.
Whatever is too much I am more than confident that we won’t get there. Based on the offers I know are out there I can’t see anyone out bidding us talent wise.
Listen, Jon Lester is a quality pitcher, but no one in baseball pegs him as a top of the rotation talent. Jacoby is a nice little player, but with only 40 or so at-bats under his belt, who knows what type of major league outfielder he’ll become.
Phil Hughes, on the other hand, has been talked about by baseball types as a guy that can lead a rotation. A true number one. And Melky Cabrera isn’t some second-rate center fielder and he’s certainly more accomplished in his career than Ellsbury is.
If the Red Sox line-up Crisp, Ellsbury, Buchholz, Lester, Lowrie, Masterson, Bowden or Cox, the Yankees can counter with Hughes, Cabrera, Kennedy, Chamberlain, Jackson, Tabata, Miranda, Horne and Marquez.
For Curt to say that “I can’t see anyone out bidding us talent wise” is just preposterous.
What an idiot.
Hey there. Saw this link off my blog and wanted to offer this. Regardless of who’s been hyped to what extent, it’s hype. Phil Hughes has a stupidly high ceiling from what I have heard and the little I saw he has the size to match the potential #1 billing. But to say Jon Lester doesn’t have top of the rotation potential is false. He’s got a ways to go for sure but he has that level of ability. Whether he gets there or not I don’t know, I think he will but I am obviously biased. The guy I think is being over hyped in this deal is Cabrera. I like him, I think he’s a good big league player. But you are talking about a career 275 hitter who homers every 95 ab’s or so. He, nor is anyone short of Andruw Jones, Tori Hunter and maybe 1-2 others, isn’t on the same planet as Coco. The 5 year age difference is a factor but who makes a trade looking beyond 3-4 years of player value? There is a huge cost difference involved as well which I am sure factors in for a team like Minnesota but if you want to argue that Melky is more valuable due to age and contract that might be the case, certainly not talent though. As far as Ellsbury is concerned you can only go with what you know. The guy can flat out play. The fact of the matter is the ABs you use to rate him are ABs during the most crucial part of the regular season and the most important games he’ll ever play in. Those AB’s ALL came against front line starters of championship teams. I’d argue he might be the fastest base runner in the game now as well. The only thing that matters in the end is where Minnesota sees the value in these guys, but if I am them and teh deal really is Lester, Lowrie, Masterson, Crisp, that’s a deal I get on ASAP.
I’ll take the idiot comment as you being a Yanks fan, or maybe it was a personal thing, I don’t know.
Nice blog man