A look back at the Adam Eaton trade after 2.5 years

[DWKB]

So much attempt to justify the Upton trade recently, meanwhile Adam Eaton is having himself a little career...

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/adam-eaton-has-been-baseballs-quietest-superstar/

Position-player WAR, last calendar year

Mike Trout, 9.5
Bryce Harper, 8.5
Josh Donaldson, 8.2
Manny Machado, 8.1
Yoenis Cespedes, 7.1
Kris Bryant, 6.7
Chris Davis, 6.4
Adam Eaton, 6.3
Paul Goldschmidt, 6.2
Joey Votto, 6.2

Remember, we had to trade Eaton because of a lack of team HRs (because we traded Upton) and stuck Trumbo in RF. The current situation we have in CF makes this even more painful.

 

[Dback Jon]

I don't have a problem with this trade - we had two good CF'ers, and Pollock won the job. It was best for Eaton to go where he could fulfill his potential. Glad to see he has started off well this year.

BTW - Trumbo is having a great start to the season as well:

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2016/5/15/11677408/mark-trumbo-orioles-home-runs-trumbombs

 

[DWKB]

I don't have a problem with this trade - we had two good CF'ers, and Pollock won the job. It was best for Eaton to go where he could fulfill his potential. Glad to see he has started off well this year.

BTW - Trumbo is having a great start to the season as well:

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2016/5/15/11677408/mark-trumbo-orioles-home-runs-trumbombs

Eaton isn't playing CF this year. Pastries for outside the box thought.

One day we will find a move where you don't support the FO Jon. I have hope.

 

[Dback Jon]

Eaton isn't playing CF this year. Pastries for outside the box thought.

One day we will find a move where you don't support the FO Jon. I have hope.

I don't like the Miller trade

 

[Dback Jon]

I don't like the Miller trade

And didn't when announced

http://www.arizonasportsfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=3266355&postcount=28

 

[TJ]

There should be a Josh Byrnes, Kevin Towers, and Dave Stewart wing at Chase field dedicated to the team's lopsided deals. It would have details on how the club got bent over on the negotiating table. It would be approximately 1,000 sq.ft., maybe larger.

Full disclosure--I've tried and defended some of their trades, and have come out looking stupid.

 

[devilalum]

So much attempt to justify the Upton trade recently, meanwhile Adam Eaton is having himself a little career...

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/adam-eaton-has-been-baseballs-quietest-superstar/



Remember, we had to trade Eaton because of a lack of team HRs (because we traded Upton) and stuck Trumbo in RF. The current situation we have in CF makes this even more painful.

I've never lived in another town with an MLB team. Do other teams spend so much time spinning all their crappy moves?

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[unseenaz]

I've never lived in another town with an MLB team. Do other teams spend so much time spinning all their crappy moves?

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try to think of some trade where we were the clear winners. looking back on terrible trades are just about the only trades we have to look back on

 

[Phrazbit]

I've never lived in another town with an MLB team. Do other teams spend so much time spinning all their crappy moves?

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Well, Towers' moves inspired virtually unanimous backlash by everyone outside of Arizona, so a lot of spinning went into explaining the logic behind deals that lacked any semblence of logic. Usually it boiled down to "X player was a doo doo head, we had a lot of guys at the same position".

The "depth at the position" defense (cited by Jon) was always humorous because it virtually never proved to be true and within a year we were making an equally stupid trade or blowing a bunch of money to fill the hole... and also pulling from another supposed position of depth... only to create another hole. The happened with all the mentioned moves. We got Trumbo to fill the void left by Upton, we dealt Eaton because we no longer had room for him, we signed Tomas because we had a hole in the OF again, we shipped off Enciarte because our OF depth made him expendable... and within months of that deal we're staring at a huge hole in the OF.

And it does not matter how Trumbo is doing for Baltimore, he was never ever going to fit here and it was obvious before we ever traded for him. The guy cannot field anywhere without looking like an infant... except 1stbase (where he is merely bad) and we had the best 1stbaseman in baseball already. I also don't expect a guy putting up an OPS nearly 200 points over his career norms to sustain that production (he is already cooling off big time), unless Chris Davis hooked Mark up with his dealer, which seems probable.

 

[devilalum]

I know this isn't fair but how good of a team could you field with players the Dbacks have traded away?

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[GatorAZ]

What pissed me off about this deal was that Eaton proved to be an on-base machine at every level in the minors. It was only a matter of time before he started producing.