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I think Tracy is a fine everyday player but I don't see him being a great player.
Webb is highly underrated. A lot of htat is because of his 9-16 record in 04. However, he has an ERA+ of 135 from 03-05. According from someone at another board I post at, these are the only pitchers who did as well over that time frame:
Johan Santana
Roger Clemens
Pedro Martinez
Roy Halladay
Carlos Zambrano
Jason Schmidt
Mark Prior
Tim Hudson
Curt Schilling
Randy Johnson
Andy Pettitte
Roy Oswalt
The only thing bad about hte Casey trade was that they waited too long to do it. They should have done it going into 2004. With Dunn, Griffey, Pena, Kearns, and Casey one has to go. Sure Kearns hasn't done great at the MLB level but he's still young and should be fine.
Anyways, is there any team screwing up worse htan the Dodgers right now? They just traded Edwin Jackson and Chuck Tiffany for Baez and Carter from hte DRays. Baez is a pretty good reliever. But Carter is nothing special. He's an average relief pitcher at best. In the NL Baez can be a very good setup man but they gave up two very good SP prospects for those two.
Jackson I can understand, the team screwed up by bringing him up in Sept 03 at only 19. He struggled the last two years but he's only 21. As a HS draftee, he wouldn't even have to be on the 40 man roster till after next season. Now he's out of options so they either play him or trade him.
Tiffany is just an awesome prospect. Trading him is damn near unforgivable. One of the best Dodger pitching prospects. He hasn't turned 21 yet and he has 279K in 211 IP. And he's a lefty. Jesus, they fire DePo and now they are on track to rape their farm system for so-so pitchers.
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