DeJesus traded to Nats for PTBNL

[SouthSideRyan]

I'm all about bashing Ricketts, but this was just a case that a smart team put us in a bad spot. No one thought the Nats were going to claim him, my guess is we WERE expecting Tampa too and would have received a top 30ish type guy to add to our system.

 

 

How do you reconcile this post with your later one that shows how shitty a return Tampa did give back. You think they would've given us a top 30 pick, but since they were dealing with the Nats they just said "here, take our garbage?"

[SouthSideRyan]

Didn't the Braves offer us an okish prospect for Gregg?

[davell]

I'm all about bashing Ricketts, but this was just a case that a smart team put us in a bad spot. No one thought the Nats were going to claim him, my guess is we WERE expecting Tampa too and would have received a top 30ish type guy to add to our system.

 

 

How do you reconcile this post with your later one that shows how [expletive] a return Tampa did give back. You think they would've given us a top 30 pick, but since they were dealing with the Nats they just said "here, take our garbage?"

 

No excuse. I thought Tampa gave up a bit more than what they gave the Nats. I went to look up who they DID give up and I laughed actually. The guy is a nothing. It kind of proved my point that we didn't make a mistake by just letting him go. The return probably wasn't and won't be worth the 1.3 mill saved by letting him go. Adding that dude to our system means nothing. DeJesus had no value.

[davell]

Didn't the Braves offer us an okish prospect for Gregg?

 

Possibly. I remember hearing David Hale's name from ABTY. But I think that may have been what we asked for and they just said no. If we were offered that, it's a mistake-we should have taken that and ran.