The world waits with baited breath to see where Roy Halladay goes- Dan Levy on Twitter last night was hoping he'd tear off his AL hat, wrestling-style, during the All-Star Game and replace it with a Phillies one- which is certain to be an exciting story to follow leading up to the trade deadline in two weeks. I'm looking forward to checking MLBTradeRumors.com 50 times a day during that time.
An observation: I love that every fan has an opinion over whether the Phillies should or shouldn't trade Kyle Drabek or Michael Taylor or Dominic Brown or Joe Savery, when 99 percent of them have never seen any of those players play a single time. You're going entirely by minor league stats and reputation, both of which have been wildly historically inaccurate when it comes to prospects.
This isn't a Philly-only phenomenon; all of a sudden, fans are all extremely interested in who's playing at Class A, who the NBA and NFL draft prospects are for three years from now, etc. But let's not pretend we actually know anything about any of these people. It's like people complaining about which player their team drafted in the 7th round- I've got a feeling the team's scouts know a bit more about these players than you do.
Posted by Stephen Silver at July 14, 2009 01:49 PMI don't know...they did trade Ryne Sandberg (and Larry Bowa) for Ivan DeJesus. I'm sure some Phillies' fans though it was a great trade at the time. They did have Manny Trillo though.
Posted by: Jason Serota at July 14, 2009 07:32 PM