06-15-2009, 09:35 AM
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Agreed, but that's a different point. From a purely baseball standpoint, if you aren't going to get equal value back for Peavy, then you shouldn't make the deal. But unfortunately for Towers, this was almost never a baseball deal, but rather a financial one. Deals done for financial reasons rarely translate well when put in a baseball perspective. So from the standpoint that Towers needed to make a Peavy deal financially, the Cubs one was his best bet, as he was getting much more baseball value than any other deal I've seen kicked around.
Agreed, but that's a different point. From a purely baseball standpoint, if you aren't going to get equal value back for Peavy, then you shouldn't make the deal. But unfortunately for Towers, this was almost never a baseball deal, but rather a financial one. Deals done for financial reasons rarely translate well when put in a baseball perspective. So from the standpoint that Towers needed to make a Peavy deal financially, the Cubs one was his best bet, as he was getting much more baseball value than any other deal I've seen kicked around.
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