Alomar to the Mets...the fire sale continues

[friskysman]

well, if it's between strange and roberts, we can't go wrong with either one. should turn out to be a good trade for cleveland.

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[Babe Root Canal]

The Mets prospects we got are like C.C., Riske, etc? Come on, the best of the Mets farm is still a joke. Their system is rated as poor. Traber will be a #4, maybe a #3 at best. We already have one of those-Bartolo Colon. We needed to get a potential #1 in this deal, like a Bud Smith. THAT'S rebuilding. This was a white flag deal, with somebody in the Tribe organization not liking Robbie, and wanting to get him out of town. The Mets fans (and probably management) feel like this was a royal fleecing.

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[Hawaii007]

Hey Babe Root,
No one ever really knows the "potential" of starters when they are in the minors. I mean think about it, would anyone have thought that Maddux and Glavine had the stuff to be front of the rotation starters? Location is the key to pitching, stuff helps, but location is just as important. And why are you saying that Colon is a number 3 starter? Thought you said that projections were all important and that Traber was only a number 3 or number 4, I know that Colon is a "porjected" number 1, and has been considered one for a long time.

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