Email a copy of 'Marlon Byrd Reveals Four-Team No-Trade Clause' to a friend
Loading ...
By Steve Adams | at
Email a copy of 'Marlon Byrd Reveals Four-Team No-Trade Clause' to a friend
MLB Trade Rumors is not affiliated with Major League Baseball, MLB or MLB.com
hide arrows scroll to top
letsgogiants
Why can’t it be both a joke and ironic? It’s a joke because it’s ironic.
On the internet, you can’t always tell what the commenter is trying to get at with as little a statement as that. Not everyone here knows the complete history of a player’s background.
gregg 2
It’s tough to predict downward trends on power hitters in the post-steroid era. You look at what Howard did in 2011 which was a reduction from the 40+ homers in the previous years but you think 31 homers in the NL and take the chance by extending him. This is why Torii Hunter is so amazing to me. Yes his numbers especially OBP are down some but he is still solid. Last year he won a silver slugger award at age 37. Getting back to Amaro sometimes club resources such as money lead GM’s to think that this guy still has it.
Baloo
He also got Cliff Lee in trade for dirt, and got a solid CF in Ben Revere for literally nothing from the Twins. I think Amaro’s biggest mistakes were trading for and trading away Hunter Pence, outside of that I think he’s made the right moves to try to keep the club competive. Hard to do that when your biggest pieces and vets literally fall off of a cliff all at the same time. Howard is killing this team. There’s still no 3B, and Rollins is a clubhouse diva.
The biggest problem for the Phillies has not been that they haven’t made the correct moves in FA, rather they haven’t been able to develop in-house talent, and what they have developed unfortunately was traded away (Many of which haven’t even panned out…Dom Brown,Singleton and Jarrod Cosart are the best of the bunch?)
Jockinit
I’ll take Ackley for Byrd. You’re looking too much into Ackley’s stats. Byrd isn’t our future, who knows if Ackley is.