And they cannot afford Price. Trading Price was inevitable, though they probably could have done it in December and taken half the flack they got. But the return does not seem remotely close to equal, unless you put an inordinate value on "under team control," as they apparently do.
Lester supposedly has an agreement with the Red Sox to return after the World Series, assuming the A's are in it. He and Big Papi have exchanged tweets saying, can't wait until we are on the same again bro. So the A's gave up a pretty good player to rent Lester for a couple months. The point being, the Price deal does not look so bad after hearing about that arrangement.
Lester said before he was traded he would just resign in Boston anyways. So I assume the As knew that he would be leaving. It was a World Series or bust move.
Lester supposedly has an agreement with the Red Sox to return after the World Series, assuming the A's are in it. He and Big Papi have exchanged tweets saying, can't wait until we are on the same again bro. So the A's gave up a pretty good player to rent Lester for a couple months. The point being, the Price deal does not look so bad after hearing about that arrangement.
Lester said before he was traded he would just resign in Boston anyways. So I assume the As knew that he would be leaving. It was a World Series or bust move.
Agree. And apparently that is ok with them. They gave up a pretty good hitter for him. But so far its looking pretty good. A 3 hit shutout the other day, and now he is 2-0 with them.
Newsflash. Balfour still sucks.
I don't understand how Joe keeps putting him out there. Terrible.
