Comments on: A Shot of Borbon http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/a-shot-of-borbon/ Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:02:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom Au http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/a-shot-of-borbon/#comment-41686 Tom Au Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:03:24 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/a-shot-of-borbon/#comment-41686 Kudos to Julio Borbon for beating expectations and living up to Boras' billing. But that doesn't change the fact that Scott Boras messed up the Pirates with his hard-ball handling of Alvarez. Or maybe the Pirates messed themselves up by trading Jason Bay (an almost sure thing) because they had Alvarez (and Tabata), two highly speculative prospects, on the horizon. Or so they thought, at least in the case of Alvarez. Kudos to Julio Borbon for beating expectations and living up to Boras’ billing.

But that doesn’t change the fact that Scott Boras messed up the Pirates with his hard-ball handling of Alvarez. Or maybe the Pirates messed themselves up by trading Jason Bay (an almost sure thing) because they had Alvarez (and Tabata), two highly speculative prospects, on the horizon. Or so they thought, at least in the case of Alvarez.

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