[USML Announce] USML Week In Review: Sign of the

[Richard Robbins]

Most of the time when I had King Felix he was merely Prince Felix.  I'm
with Jeff on this one.

That's why I traded Verlander for Darvish.  Oops.  Maybe I should go back
to looking for race tires.

-- KR

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Jeffrey Winick <jwinick at harriswinick.com>wrote:

> I'm not down on the guy.  I just don't think anyone in their right mind
> trades a guy like Adrian Gonzalez to get him.
>
> Okay - well maybe I am down on the guy.  Where would you like me to start?
>
> Had you traded Two Eggs when he was in AA, I might have understood the
> excitement.  He was looking pretty good.  But he hasn't looked so good
> since being moved up to AAA.  He's put up a 3.17 ERA and a 1.48 Whip over
> 82 innings.  He's walking almost 3.5 guys a game.  He's giving up a lot of
> home runs (10 already) and his strikeouts are down.  Brett Saberhagen, he's
> not.
>
> But the best reason that I'm down on him is that pitching prospects rarely
> warrant excitement.  Name me the last highly touted pitcher that actually
> went out and produced in his first few years.  Funny you should mention
> King Felix.  He's one of the poster children for highly touted young
> pitchers that needed a few years to develop.  As great as he is, ask Rich
> whether he'd have been better off trading him rather than keeping him.  He
> had much more value as a bean.  Surely, you have to agree the same is true
> of young Jake.
>
> My guess is that if Andy hadn't just popped a Demerol the deal never gets
> done.  Just sayin....
>
> Jeff
>
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>
> why is everyone so down on the fast rising Odorizzi? Seattle sucks too,
> does
> that mean you wouldn't take Felix Hernadez?
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