How do you feel about the Huff trade?

[Jenkins]

It seems like we got the bad end of the deal on this one. We are still paying 1.6 million of his salary too.

Maybe, I am looking at this wrong though. Any thoughts?

[deerayfan072]

i like it, upton moves to third and will proabbly be up in 3 weeks b/c of it. Also, Hunsicker knows the guys in the stros and knows who is good and what there ceiling is, if we were going to trade any team for minor leaguers i was hoping it was the stros' since he knows so much about them.

[Jenkins]

good point. thanks for the info.

[raiders_umpire]

It seems like we got the bad end of the deal on this one. We are still paying 1.6 million of his salary too.

Maybe, I am looking at this wrong though. Any thoughts?

The salary does not bother me, as we have some money as attendance is up quite a bit this year. I just wanted more in return for Huff. I think we could have gotten a bit more if we had waited it out on him. The players we got are interesting and could help out in the future, but I was really wanting a better pitching prospect even if it was just a reliever.

[Jenkins]

My thoughts exactly. Huff is pretty much the hottest hitter in baseball. The Astros have a good number of better pitching prospects than Talbot. Oh well....

[Dawgpound 1613]

I agree on trying to get a better pitching prospect, but if Zobrist is good defensively, and with Lugo and Huff gone and Upton being a 3B now, having a good defensive SS is fine if you get the offense elsewhere.