It’s also kool that he spells his name with a K.

I’ve looked at Cleveland trade and they could held out for more but they seemed to be a little anxious. Teams like the angels or redsox could have drove up his price if they would’ve shown just a little more interest.

Cleveland’s direction is going nowhere they are starting guys with 5.00ERAs all over the place. If i was the gm I would’ve called Tampa and see if they wanted for Martinez and Lee and try to get one of their many pitching prospects (ie. Jacob McGee, Wade Davis, Jeremy Hellickson, Matt Moore, Mitch Talbot,Heath Rollins,Nick Barnese,Eduardo Morlan) all these guys could be a major league pitcher. McGee and Davis and Hellickson would each be more on the line of bucholz where you’re not getting much more if you get one of them but all the other guys could be a #2 or #3/4 starter or future bullpen help. Sorry I’m getting off point cleveland has become the essentially what the pirate are.

Erik Bedard basically gave the M’s one year of service but it took two years worth of prospect to get him.

There’s a lot to it, but the Indians got taken in the Lee deal. Not only did they not get any of the top 4 pitching prospects in the Phillies’ system, the best prospect of the four seems to be Carrasco, who FanGraphs calls “low-risk/low-upside”.

The Orioles stole the M’s best all-around prospect (Jones) a top-3 pitching prospect that was 19(!!!) at the time of the deal, a LOOGY that was turned into an All-Star closer on a bad team that was then flipped for the Dodger’s best corner infield/power prospect and an interesting young pitcher, a set-up/closer prospect in Mickolio that has two plus pitches and Tony Butler, who despite being an O’s fan, I know nothing about.

More importantly, Sizemore is falling apart for the Indians with his UZR/WAR numbers slip slip sliding down the mountain the past two years. Phillips was dumped for nothing and has turned into a pretty good player.

The Indians were competitive for three years after this deal, but remember, they’ve waived the white flag on that nucleus. Sabathia, Lee, and Martinez are all gone, and I don’t see how they have the pitching to replace the two at the top.

So for half a season of Barolo Colon the Indians made out big. The only mistake was trading Phillips too soon but they at least turned Jeff Steven into other major league prospects. This trade will continue to haunt the nationals if the Indians trade sizemore into even more prospects that turn into legitimate stars.