Yep. What has and what might and what may well have been. Although, I admit getting Wallace for Gose was perhaps the saving grace for the Astros in all of this. Brett Wallace has a chance to become a very productive player very soon. So....I'm optimistic with what might happen as well.
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/a...s-for-chad-billingsley-in-roy-oswalt-deal.php I can't get the site to work for me but apparently Wade asked for Billingsley... :grin:
I guess to me, with my limited baseball knowledge, why do this deal...from what I've read, we still have to pay $11MM and get three scrubs...why not keep Roy...of course we can't but it doesn't look like a good trade...
Haha, guy @ chron (fan blogger who somehow communicates with Drayton?) got a letter from Drayton about Oswalt's departure (he probably asked about it though): Semantics are important to Uncle Drayton, you see. He doesn't want to admit it (gotta keep the ticket sales, right?), but Ed Wade is at least trying to do it. Perhaps this was posted already, but the thread is 39 pages... Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch Roy pitch on MLB.TV. I have Oswalt, Howard and Polanco all on my fantasy team, soooo... GO PHILLIES!!!
He always has a shaky start. He will probably go 7.2 with 2ER. Not that I care. I hope he falls apart and the Astros win a trade one of these days.
I can't take that attitude in this case. To me, the only thing that determines the success of this trade given the state of the team and Roy's age is what the prospects we got in return do for us. Roy had no value to this org going forward from a baseball perspective.
Unless we waited till the offseason and made him more willing to go to some different teams that actually HAD prospects.
Yea, then started off the 3rd by giving up a hit to their pitcher then hitting Morgan, who triple off him to leadoff the game. Men on 1st and 2nd, no outs.
Apparently, Ruiz blew a throw to 1st off a bunt that extended the inning. Only 2 of the 3 runs on Roy.
