Trading Mariners for other Mariners
Hey folks,
I rarely comment on here, but the need for me to share my thoughts has led to my first fanpost. Please be gentle.
Since the offseason began, the usual flood of armchair GM's have decided to voice their own rosterbation ideas, leading to various trade proposals(mostly ridiculous) usually involving their team fleecing their counterpart. I find these proposals to be maddening. You find them maddening. I'm sure Jeff and Matthew find them maddening. So I suggest we try to find a way to manage fan bias: Trade proposals consisting only of players on the same team.
For instance, how highly do we value Felix Hernandez? Though this is clearly an imaginary scenario, who from the Mariners organization would you trade for him? Would something along the lines of Pineda and Ackley be fair? Too much?
Keep in mind that these trade proposals obvously should not be focused on team need, but should be used as an exercise to demonstrate how we value our players.
I'm not suggesting anything groundbreaking, I just think the concept is fun to think about.
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I'd trade Figgins for Felix.
Unrealistic, you say? Sure, you’d think that the Mariners would balk at giving up Felix for an albatross, but then again, the Mariners are coming out WAY AHEAD on the deal! They’re fleecing the other team! They’d be crazy not to accept!
by Eyebrows on Nov 7, 2011 4:53 PM PST via mobile reply actions 5 recs
Seems like kind of a lateral move to me.
...and now I'm here
by CapSea on Nov 7, 2011 8:09 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I guess it's not really the risk... no move and nobody questions it
But if we traded Felix for Felix and then Felix got injured, it’d be hell to pay
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
Although admittedly if we traded Felix we'd need a top of the line starting pitcher, so getting Felix would be filling a need.
...and now I'm here
by CapSea on Nov 7, 2011 8:26 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
But what would happen if we traded Felix for Felix and then Felix got better after leaving?
it would just add more fuel to the “why do they always get better” fire
by seattlebruin on Nov 7, 2011 8:35 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
You can't trade a player for himself.
Oh, you mean he’s traded as a PTBNL, then he is the PTBNL. I got it.
by nathaniel dawson on Nov 7, 2011 8:13 PM PST up reply actions
That's selling Fister too cheap.
You need at least a few more names on the other side.
Hell yeah!
We could use another Ambioris Hidalgo.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Nov 8, 2011 5:22 PM PST up reply actions
I really should stop reading LL in Econ
I am dying here
"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence." ~ Dinobot

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