Where I argue that I wasn't COMPLETELY wrong about the Carlos Lee trade
I was never a proponent of signing Carlos and no one else.Yet, that's the false pretense that all Lee Trade Apologists (LTAs) want to hang on us detractors.
No, Carlos Lee in and of himself would not have gotten us to the playoffs. I could see, just like everyone else, that they were losing games with Lee in the lineup.
Now maybe I'm not that smart, but that suggests to me that we needed to pick up some better players, and that we needed to keep our good players who were producing well (like Lee).
Yet, we did the opposite. We got rid of Lee and picked up three players, two of whom are not helping the team.
As I said at the time, we traded away a slugger for two average-to-below-average outfielders and a reliever. The reliever, Coco, is doing well and I like him, but the two outfielders add nothing to the team.
Answer this, ...is Mench better than Hart? No. So, there was no need for Mench.
Is Nix better than any of the following: Clark, Cruz, Gwynn, or Gross? Maybe, maybe not. So, there wasn't really any need for an unproven AAA outfielder since we already had approximately 47 of them.
We needed to add talent, and at best what we did was lose a little bit of talent for about the same money, so we're not even saving any cash with this move.
Predictably, the Brewers are playing worse with Lee gone, and have fallen into their worst slump of the season.
The bottom line is that this owner seems intent to run the team on the cheap, and I'm sorry, that's just not going to work. I can understand not chasing every high-priced name that hits free agency, ...but failing to keep your own All Stars?
My evidence ...have you heard anything about the Brewers attempting to lock up Capuano, Fielder, Hall, or Weeks to long term deals?
No.
Let me give you a preview of what they'll say in a few years:
"We got 3 good AAA outfielders for him."
"We couldn't spend all our money on one guy, then we wouldn't be able to sign other players."
"Suckers."
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