Shout - SABR Matt - 12/3/15 3:48pm

<p>So...to #Texas...this deal was Kivlehan for Martin, with Wilhelmson as a useful complimentary piece. I still think this deal blows.</p>
<div class="indented">Reply - Tacoma Rain - 12/3/15 4:28pm<br><p>Ditto</p>
</div><div class="indented">Reply - jemanji - 12/3/15 5:18pm<br><p>Kivlehan for Martin would have been reasonable, and the imperative was for DiPoto to get a signature CF glove. So that's cool. </p>
<p>Then you're dealing Wilhelmsen for Anthony Bass. Again, Wilhelmsen has a 96 fastball, an "80" yellow hammer and 67 lifetime saves; Bass has been fringe.</p>
<p>That said, Kivlehan-Martin as the key to the deal, with the relievers secondary, that's a paradigm that is easier to live with for me.</p>
<p>Good stuff Matt.</p>
</div><div class="indented">Reply - Tacoma Rain - 12/3/15 6:58pm<br><p>So who then demanded that Jones be a part of this deal?<br />
Daniels really wanted Jones to be a free agent that bad?</p>
</div><div class="indented">Reply - moethedog - 12/5/15 3:21pm<br><p>If the Kivlehan-Martin swap was the heart of this deal, then it means that a team that regularly kicks the snot out of us, wanted Kivlehan more than they wanted their glovey 88 OPS+ CF. Easy power, to all fields, he has. This deal works. 1. If Martin is the '14 Martin....and does it over several seasons. 2. Kivlehan doesn't look like Joe Rudi.</p>
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