I'd take the one who had a perfect season of no blown saves and won a championship by striking out the last guy in the 9th. That was very much post-Pujols too...
I think the Padres are posturing on Kimbrel. They aren't going to want to pay a closer that much money when they are in rebuilding mode. Other teams know this and are trying to get them to blink. Same thing with Chapman and the Reds.
Alyson Footer said on Twitter that there's a "0 % chance" that the BREWERS would have done the trade if the Astros offered Appel instead of Hader. Lol. Uh, ok. Dump her into the ever growing trough of reporters that one shouldn't take seriously.
Eh, not saying she is right...but you never know how other organizations value prospects I'm sure most would value Appel higher than Hader, but depending on what they are looking for some might have zero interest Not like Milwaukee is being ran by people with a great history of making good decisions
I think the tough thing for SD is getting deals in place for several guys. They probably don't want to move into "rebuilding" mode if they can't move Shields AND Kimbrell for what they want. Their situation is pretty complicated with most of their guys being controllable
She's not basing that anything besides her own opinions/lack of understanding. I can't imagine anybody would have no interest in appel, but considerable interest in hader. that's illogical, and somewhere between unlikely and impossible. Her extreme stance/going out of her way to reply and rub in a follower's face that there would be a zero percent chance that the deal gets made if appel was included over hader is pure idiocy. McTaggart slowly becoming the only reporter with an Astros connection that I can tolerate. I guess that new kid hasn't done anything egregiously bad yet either.
There's nothing to trust. She had no inside info into the negotiations. She was hypothesizing and presenting it as fact.
Not trying to pick a fight But you accuse her of having no inside info Could I ask how you know that to be factual, or are you just hypothesizing and presenting that as fact?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Three big buyers that are still active: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Astros?src=hash">#Astros</a> (RP?), <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlueJays?src=hash">#BlueJays</a> (SP? LF?), <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dodgers?src=hash">#Dodgers</a> (SP?).</p>— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/626934642432565249">July 31, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
she wasn't implying that those were tidbits from the negotiation that she unearthed. she simply doesn't know what she's talking about. but, if you think alyson footer would be the only person to have the info that there's a 0% chance that the brewers would take appel over hader, and that her method of revealing that info would be to condescendingly respond to a follower's tweet with it, well...ok then.
No idea, don't follow her Just funny to me when I hear people saying they know for a fact she had no info and was just spouting stuff When they have no true info on her either But if you hate her, that's certainly your right
All I was saying was it isn't impossible for a team to have no interest in Appel, when making a deal for a guy like Gomez. Maybe they don't think he will ever figure it out. There is no way to know how other organizations view prospects, but it's not always how we view them that's for sure
