Agreed:
But if only one of the guys we traded for works out, I wouldn't put the odds on Wells, which would leave us in the same bat-desperate position we were in before.
Which is not what I wanted from a Fister trade.
The uncomfortable part of the trade is Casper Wells' chance to fail. That's cheerfully conceded by everybody.
As to whether it could become $2.50 on the dollar...
Well, if they put Casper in CF, and he hits like Mike Morse, that's Josh Reddick easily, right?
Then you add two lockdown RP's, one right and one left, and that actually is a 'wow' deal.
I'm with you on Francisco Martinez - will believe it when I see it. No reason to reject him, as such, but the M's have any number of minors bats in his class.
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Seems like I should do a front-page Roundtable post or three on that, G. Keep it comin' man.