Cafardo says Ricketts maybe ready for overhaul

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The Damon one was I dunno, Dave Littlefield-esque? in that he took back a 36 year old Roberto Hernandez for no apparent reason (Resulting in the trade not even clearing only 1M in salary) and threw in Mark Ellis for good measure.

 

speaking of dave littlefield, one of my favorite mlb trades of all time was the one where the pirates acquired matt morris for rajai davis. the pirates were thoroughly out of the playoff race that year and took on like $3m of morris' salary in 2007, then $10m in 2008 (making him the highest-paid pirate in franchise history). he had an ERA around 7 for the pirates and was released 5 games into the 2008 season. littlefield is lucky to have a job in baseball after a trade like that.

 

That thing was so inexplicable before during and after. Never had any idea how or why they justified making the move.

 

My guess would be he wanted a veteran "anchor" of the staff or something like that.

 

Littlefield stated that was the reason.

 

And this whole article is like a BS viral email gone wrong. Rogers was the first idiot to trumpet Baird and Littlefield, now all these hacks are just quoting one another.