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Originally Posted by Nightfyre
The key point here is that we only have two years of control of Shields. We gave up six years of every prospect we sent in that deal. I would have turned the deal down - and that's not unreasonable, if not simply because Frenchy is SOOOO terrible that Myers replacing Frenchy is undoubtedly worth more wins than Shields over whomever we could have acquired with 12 or 18 million in free agency dollars.
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So you wouldn't have done the trade, fair enough. But the question is what it takes to get Shields. Myers was the cost for the acquisition. It wasn't an unfair trade on the face of it.
Hard to know who would sign here for 18M. Annibal Sanchez is a $90m investment and likely wouldn't come here. Edwin Jackson & Shaun Marcum were tossed around as options but they are a combined 3-18 (though they've pitched a bit better than that). Who did you have in mind? Brandon McCarthy was another name but he's got a 5 era for Arizona.