[USML Announce] Top 5 Reasons Winick Won't Even Beat Me....

[Richard E. Robbins]

Jeff,

You are not making your best case.  It wasn't just Mussina for Weaver, I got Morales too (with Aubrey as a modest offset).

-- Rich

On June 20, 2005, JHWinick at aol.com wrote:

>  
> In a message dated 6/20/2005 2:52:53 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
> springkerb at aol.com writes:
> 
> Jeff:
>  
> You're usually quite thorough, but you missed one significant  issue.  TB is 
> grossly overloaded with speed and light on power  among its young outfielders, 
> both in the majors and the minors, a situation  that won't improve when 
> Aubrey Huff leaves either in July or in the  off-season.  So Gathright is almost 
> certainly trade bait, and he has "NL  player" written all over him.
>  
> Just trying to help.
>  
> Mark 
> 
> 
> 
> Damn - didn't even think of that one.  Thanks for the help.
>  
> Other than the whole NL issue, the only other thing that's worthy  of mention 
> is the fact that Blocker was extolling the virtues of this guy  in comparison 
> to Jared Weaver.  That didn't strike me until this  morning.  Let's see, fast 
> guy who can't hit versus #1 rated college  pitcher.  And I only asked for one 
> pitcher in return for Weaver. Mark asked  for a veritable boatload of talent 
> in exchange for his Monster Talent.
>  
> Yep....I've got to give the guy credit.  He's got chutzpah.  This  is a whole 
> side of him I've never seen before.  From here on out, I will no  longer be 
> referring to Mark as "DFF" (that's an acronym for Drive for  Five).  From now 
> on, I'm just calling him PT (as in Barnum)
>  
> What I'm really looking forward to is hearing about what he's pitching  now.  
> Can't you just hear him whispering in Klein's ear:
>  
> "But Andy, Nageotte's just been struggling.  He's a MONSTER  TALENT.  Don't 
> pay any attention to the so-called roto-establishment.   What do they know.  
> This guy can flat out pitch.  I know they talk  about his lack of control and 
> injury history, but they said the same thing about  Todd Van Poppel.  Oops, I 
> mean Kerry Wood.  So, let's get this done -  Nageotte for A-Rod.  And don't pay 
> any attention to Winick's guys like Bush  and Thames.  They're in the minors 
> and their contracts are  running, like Granderson......Oh, never mind.  And 
> that  guy Cuddyer, he's worthless.  So what if he has eligibility  at both middle 
> infield and the corners for a mere $2.  He's no  more valuable than a guy 
> like Cantu.  Oops - never mind.  But, Danks,  now that guy is just a long shot 
> prospect, beloved only by the Roto  Establishment guys, like Baseball America.  
> Hell, he's no more likely to  have a major league job soon than say, Kevin 
> Youkilis.  Ummm, sorry, where  was I.  And, please, don't even mention a supposed 
> hot shot prospect  like Moss - he's no monster talent.  I'm the only one 
> shrewd enough to  identify them at the draft."
>  
> That's all for now.
>  
> Jeff