December 2008 Survey Question #4
Posted by Steve Lombardi on December 17th, 2008 · Comments (5)
Following up on our last poll, please consider taking the following poll:
If You Could Trade Alex Rodriguez, One-Up, For B.J. Upton, Today, Would You Do It?
Thanks in advance. And, please feel free to add comments on your opinion in the comments section below.
Is this a serious question? Yea I’ll trade a 107 OPS+ for a 150 OPS+ any day!
Absolutely not. Not even close.
reaching here steve-o.
this is the only poll that will get the results you so desire:
If You Could Trade Alex Rodriguez, One-Up, For Albert Pujols, Today, Would You Do It?
Without delving into why this series of surveys are flawed…
…hell no. BJ Upton has talent but he’s not A-Rod now and it’s doubtful he ever will be. The Yanks would be trading down here.
If you ignore the ridiculous-ness of this trade for a second, and assume this is a one-to-one salary swap, there is at least an extremely hypothetical scenario where the Yankees are better off.
Trading A-Rod clears enough money to sign Texiera, Upton is now the starting CF and you could sign Wiggington to play 3B. You could make the argument that the Yankees are a better team that way?
That just made my head spin…