Thursday, July 30, 2009

And for an extra bag of peanuts the Phillies could've had Victor Martinez too

All the Indians could get for Cliff Lee, who has a very affordable price tag for next year, was four Phillies prospects who aren't major-league ready? We're looking for answers too, pal.

Discussion starter: Who's more pissed today? Cleveland fans who just lost their top pitcher, or every other front office in baseball that just found out how affordable Lee really was?

Debate.

4 comments:

rstiles said...

Incredibly, the Phillies still have Drabek and Happ...so if they still wanted to, they can still trade those guys and get Halladay to go along with Lee...

GMoney said...

Watch it, stiles, you are starting to sound like Steve Phillips.

Bokolis said...

Neither.

Cleveland fans needn't be upset because, if your team can't do enough to keep its best pitcher, who is pitching to a 3 ERA above .500 (he's had to scramble to get to 7 - 9), your team is too fucked for Lee to be of much use.

Other GMs couldn't make this deal because there's a pipeline from Cleveland to Philly unavailable to other GMs.

Alex said...

Omar whiffs again!!! And so do the Steinklebummers!!!