Comments on: There are better deals in August

By: wrveres

wrveres — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:32:28 +0000

Gerut and Hairston were under contract when we traded for Edmonds.

the time to trade Giles was on thursday. his value only goes down from here.

Melvin Nieves — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:36:38 +0000

Yes, getting a free player would have been better than getting nothing.

Ray Lankford — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:43:34 +0000

And we’re paying $6 million to find out what they can do.

Ray Lankford — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:41:28 +0000

We also could have found out what Gerut and Hairston can do if we traded Edmonds.

As it stands, the move smacks of panic.

Melvin Nieves — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:51:39 +0000

“You could say that Edmonds was traded for Gerut”

“You”, of course referring to “me”, since I was the one who said that.

It’s about opportunity cost. I’m not saying releasing Edmonds was a good move, but it wasn’t as worthless as it might seem on first look.

What we got was the opportunity to learn that Jody Gerut and Scott Hairston are worthy players who can help the team in the future.