10-06-2010, 12:37 PM
The end doesn't always justify the mean. Maybe this was exactly what Z needed, or maybe all he needed was to be given time to work out his issues. I have no idea. No one does. I would still argue that losing 50-70 innings from one of your best SPs (which believe it or not Z was compared to even the great Gorzelanny and Silva in 2009 and prior to that) is a bad thing. How do you quantify it? Fuck if I know. Z's trade value was also lowered (it is still low now) by demoting him. So there were at least 2 downsides.