Not bad, if you have to have one of those cards. Jennifer Connelly just turned 54, btw, and she has aged really well.
From what I heard, all 3 of those players are guys Brown and the organization specifically targeted. I have heard Paredes is a guy the Astros have tried to get for quite some time. It is not known if Shaw was ever offered, or was a possibility, but it is reported that Smith was preferred over him anyway. Local boy Wesneski was chosen over other pitching options specifically. I think this trade could have been much different but the 3 players were all specifically chosen over players that it sounds like you would have prefered.
Clifford put up a .350+ wOBA across 400 AA PAs in his 20 age season. Not many prospects have accomplished something like that. Smith has less than 100 PAs to his name above A ball and in his brief stop in AA couldn’t match Clifford’s wOBA. Hopefully he hits or otherwise it looks like the Astros traded a MVP caliber player for a little above average 3B and a 27 year old reliever with all of 0.5 WAR to his name.
Of course they were going to say this. Do you think they were going to say we got fleeced? Where did you get this info? Dana can still salvage this off-season, but he needs to hit homeruns not singles. If I knew this would be the return on Tucker Dana should've held onto Tucker through the deadline. If he couldn't trade him for more than this, he should have held onto him and let him walk at the end of the year. Maybe Dana will still add a couple of bats, but I wouldn't count on it happening.
Bagwell, Biggio, Bell, Berkman, Blichard Hidalgo, Bill Spiers, Blary Dierker, Blane Reynolds, Billy Wagner, etc...
You do realize they used Kyle Tucker to mimic Ted Williams as a stand-in in the documentary In Search of a Swing, right? https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/in-search-of-a-swing-like-ted-williams
The only reason we gave up Cliff is because Vrane wanted them to eat more of JVs contract. What a disappointment
