46 REASONS TO TRADE PHILLIP HUGHES

TRIVIA QUESTION :

What Do All These Players Have in Common?

Edwin Jackson, Greg Miller (both with the Dodgers)

Adam Lowen, Zack Greinke, Gavin Floyd, Jose Contreras,

Adam Wainwright, Jeremy Bonderman (up and Down) Dennis Tankersley,

Jerome Williams (Giants) Jon Rauch (minor league player of the year with the White sox),

Boof Bonser, Chin Hui Tsao with the Rockies was HUGE.

Bobby Bradley with the Pirates, Kurt Ainsworth with the Giants, Bud Smith with the Cardinals.

Brett Myers, (Not nearly as good as advertised.)

Mark Mulder and Bary Zito (only had a couple of good seasons but also not as good as advertised.)

Matt Riley with the Orioles was a Huge prospect , Kip Wells, Wilfredo Rodriguez with Houston.

Tony Armas Jr, Carl Pavano (both were HUGE) prospects Montreal got for Pedro.

Jon Garland, Danys Baez, Jesus Colome. Bruce Chen was the next Tom Glavine.

AJ Burnette Didn't turn out as good as expected, JOHN PATTERSON.

Ryan Bradley with the Yanks, Jeff Weaver , Matt White with the (Devil) Rays.

Kris Benson was hailed as the next Messiah, Matt Clement.

Jaret Wright ("the next Clemens") Braden Looper threw 100 MPH

Prior, Wood, Jesse Foppert, Juan Cruz, Ryan Anderson, Rick Ankiel,
Brad Penny.
And Finally Paul Wilson and Bill Pulsipher.


ANSWER:
The answer to this question is, they were all HUGE pitching prospects over the last decade and NONE of them turned out to be what they were supposed to be.

Sure, some of these guys had moderate success in the majors. But by and large, they all are disappointments.
Every single one of these guys was predicted in Baseball America to be Extremely productive pitchers if not Aces for many years to come.
But, we all know that "Prospects are Suspects".

(These 46 names were compiled by Avi D,

There are more . These are just the poster boys of the list of baseball busts)

After seeing that list of let downs. How can you justify Not Trading Phillip "the Phranchise" Hughes, Ian Patric Kennedy etc...
For relatively young established Major league aces when they are available?(ie, Johan last year, and Peavy this year )

It just doesn't make sense. Even if Hughes lives up to his potential , he never will come close to the hall Of Famer in the making (Johan).
I know that Peavy is an extreme drop off from Santana. But we cant miss out on the same kind of opportunity just because of last years "NON" trade.

There are always prospects who actually do live up to there potential.
Yes every now and then we encounter guys like Lincecum , Cain and Joba. Beckett and Shields Garza and Kershaw, Billingsley ,Volquez ,Danks and Hamels.
(some of these guys are still yet to prove it for more than a few years, but you get my drift)
But to every ten busts there is only one success story.
What I'm trying to say is, Get the ace when you have a chance . Because when it comes to prospects , pitching in particular. Its like NY Lotto's slogan. "Hey Ya Never Know..."

DUSTIN PEDROIA? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME

I know automatically before reading this rant all you people are saying to yourselves "hes just a bitter Yankee fan".

But COME ON!!!!!

Dustin Pedroia?!?!?!?

I heard whispers about this late in the regular season but immediately dismissed them. Why would a player who doesn't lead the league in any major categories win the highest honor that MLB has to offer?

Just look at his stats.

AB 653 R 118 H 213 2B 54 3B 2 HR 17 RBI 83 TB322 BB50 SO52 SB20 OBP.376 SLG. 493 AVG.326

Joe Mauer won the batting title edging out the Red Sox's bald little elf by a few points.

Ichiro was tied with Pedroia for most hits .

His amount of doubles are Very misleading and were a product of the monster (I think, I didn't look at the splits)

This one is great. Get this Pedroia was tied with 5 other players ranking 43rd in the AL in Home runs. That means there were 42 other players (or more) that hit more HRs than him. (this is a joke)

Wait, there's more... He was 27th in the league in RBI's.

(He didn't even lead his team in those last two major stats.)

He was tenth in the league in OBP and once again didn't even lead his own team. (Youkilis was 6th in the league.)

Ill finish off with this one. He was 15th in the league in Stolen Bases.

I seriously don't understand why the current system is still in place. These baseball writers are flat out dumb.

For example, (courtesy of RAB) A Milwaukee writer had 3 or 4 1st baseman ahead of Pujols on the ballot. He had a few Brewers ahead of him. Why isn't there a uproar that this popularity contest is still in place is beyond me.

My choice for the AL MVP is Justin Mornoe. His Stats are far and beyond better than This Little mans were. If your of the school of thought that you must be on a winning team. (which in my mind is another incoherent thought, if one of you peers are better , don't punish him because the team around him sucks...but whatever I'll save that for another post.) Mornoe actually led his team to a one game playoff with the Chi Sox.

Also, Mornoe edged out Jeter a few years back with the same kind of stats he put up THIS season. Although I was extremely pissed off that Jeter was robbed of highest honor (which would of put a cherry on top of his already HOF career). I couldn't do anything about it. The opposing argument was, that Mornoe's power numbers were far and beyond Jeter's (which is true). So if that's the case, How in the Hell is it possible that this year Mornoe didn't win again? The scenario is was eerily similar. Except Jeter was better that season than Pedroia was this season. I just don't get it.

(This reminds me of when Ichiro won the ROY then when Matsui was up for the award he loses to Angel Berrowa. WHY may you ask? well, the reason they gave was "Matsui isn't considered a rookie, hes a Japanese vet". WTF, so where was that theory when it came to Ichiro...just pathetic)

Just because he plays in Boston and hes short and scrappy, Doesn't Justify him getting this award.

Does he get more out of his talent than say Cano? The answer to that is HELL YES. But that doesn't warrant this pathetic choice.

This Red Sox Bias has gotten to a point of ignorance and patheticness . End of Story