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Ryan
Really sucks to be Joaquin Arias. He shall be forever remembered as “that other guy” in the Alex Rodriguez trade.
woadude
Exactly. At the end of the article he goes on to say that as if he should be proud of that, like Steve Bartman should be proud that his hand is forever a part of the Cub’s curse.
nathanalext
I don’t think saying he’s had a forgettable MLB career to this point is a fair assesment. Granted, I don’t know a whole lot about him or his play, but, by the way the article sums his career up to this point, it’s not been too shabby.
vtadave
.676 OPS to me is pertty shabby.
East Coast Bias
If the Rangers picked Cano instead, both the Yankees and Rangers would look very different. Kinsler may not be in their system, or maybe moved to 3rd? And who knows who would be the Yankees’ 2nd baseman – I can’t remember anyone memorable in recent free agency they could have signed.
Oh well, just glad it worked out the way it did!
vtadave
Yankees would have just traded Nova, Gardner, and a PTBNL for Chase Utley in his prime. They are the Yankees, so they can do that.
tacko
That package wouldn’t have even come close enough to pry Utley away from the Phillies. Why would they trade an all-star second baseman with a friendly contract for a bunch of unrated minor leaguers?
John McFadin
I’m pretty sure you missed sarcasm in his response.
woadude
Hello…..YANKEES, they would of done it and the Phillies would of been honored to receive such a haul of prospects and to watch their pride go to the Yankees. (See Hernandez,Felix next year)
dodgers33dodgers
im sure having kinsler in the system and young on the team was a big part of not picking cano…arias was mainly a short stop…now they have andrus who beat him out…im pretty sure the Rangers are just fine with what they have…even tho any one of those guys or cano could of made good trade bait for a pitcher or something if they had that ability!!
MadmanTX 2
There is a good chance if Cano had been taken, he’d be on the same boat as Arias. Arias was under a lot of pressure in Texas to excel at his limited major league opportunities instead of being given a look from training camp onward.
Still, Arias did have a golden opportunity when Kinsler was shelved for a long DL stay and he didn’t exactly give the Rangers a hard choice.
TapDancingTeddy
That’s a sad statement if you mean that Cano would’ve never developed in Texas.
Granted Cano stayed two more years in the Yankees minor league system, but he had a 106 OPS+ his first year up. I can’t see the Rangers not getting anything out of him.
Paul
Eh I feel bad that he never developed, but still at 16 he had 300k in his pocket, not to mention whatever he got from his salary. I would say thats not too bad plus whatever contract hes gotten. I mean yea if he had been a fulltime major leaguer he obviously would have made more, but dang even to just be a minor leaguer and be able to get that kind of money for just playing baseball thats not too shabby at all.
bobbybaseball
“One of the greatest players in baseball history”? You are completely ignoring the fact that his accomplishments were ‘roid-enhanced. Who knows how good he would have been without the stuff. Certainly not nearly as great as he turned out.
Kevin
Nor does anyone know how much it actually enhanced him. The guy has great talent though and that cannot be argued.