Trades you're glad that got declined

[Belle4Hall88]

Had the day off today, was extremley bored and was looking at all the offers I've sent this year. Came across some that I am really glad the other owner declined. Some of these would be...

- My Chris Young for his Willy Mo Pena, back when Pena was on the Reds.

- My John Lackey for his Jeremy Hermida & Rocco Baldelli. This was preseason & I was really was into the Hermida hype from the cafe.

- My Andruw Jones for his Rich Harden (preseason.)

- My Aramis Ramirez & Casey Blake for his Garry Sheffield(before Shef was on the DL & A-Ram was struggling.)

- My Scott Olsen & Mike Piazza for his Barry Bonds.

- My Scott Olsen & Aramis Ramirez for his Jake Peavy.

- My Adam Dunn for his Jose Valverde(Jose was lights out and Dunn was hovering around .230)

- My Akinori Otsuka for his Todd Coffey(THANK GOD! Some reason I thought Aki's days were #'d and Coffey was going to be a better closer.)

- Marcus Thames & Felipe Lopez for Mark Buehrle and Barry Bonds.

- My John Lackey for his Aaron Rowand(Lackey hadn't caught fire yet.)

- My John Lackey for his Brian Fuentes.

- My John Lackey for his Johnny Gomes.

- My John Lackey for his Bob Wickman.

And my personal favorite. The one I would still be throwing up over. My Fransisco Liriano(when he was still a reliver) John Lackey(4 wins and a 3something ERA) & Scott Olson(either he was still in the minors or he had an era around 6ish cant remember wich one, either way I was close to dropping him) for his Jose Valverde, Tim Hudson & Coco Crisp.

[Frappy]

My Chris young and Jermaine Dye for Gary Sheffield (This year).


Its even better I declined because I then spun off Young for Holliday later on - A good deal.

[River Rat]

I do not have such a long and impressive list as yours.... but....

I do have one trade I declined and I like to throw up over every once in a while because of it.

The first week of the season. I was offerred Bary Zito for....drum roll please......


..............for my Oliver Perez

I say no more!

[brandnew]

And my personal favorite. The one I would still be throwing up over. My Fransisco Liriano(when he was still a reliver) John Lackey(4 wins and a 3something ERA) & Scott Olson(either he was still in the minors or he had an era around 6ish cant remember wich one, either way I was close to dropping him) for his Jose Valverde, Tim Hudson & Coco Crisp.

Man, that guy must be kicking himself really badly for that one.

[BronXBombers51]

I was offered Beltran and Webb for Hafner and Chad Tracy right when Beltran came back from the DL and Hafner was on a tear.

I'm sure the other owner was glad I declined it.

[teddy ballgame]

I made a bunch of stupid offers with Berkman before the season. Mainly targeting "stud" aces. Glad they were all rejected because guys like Harden and Peavy would have really been a pain in the rear.

[teddyballgamemvp]

And my personal favorite. The one I would still be throwing up over. My Fransisco Liriano(when he was still a reliver) John Lackey(4 wins and a 3something ERA) & Scott Olson(either he was still in the minors or he had an era around 6ish cant remember wich one, either way I was close to dropping him) for his Jose Valverde, Tim Hudson & Coco Crisp.

I thought Coco would have a better fantasy season than Sizemore, so you're not alone in overvaluing him.

[jake_harv88]

I do not have such a long and impressive list as yours.... but....

I do have one trade I declined and I like to throw up over every once in a while because of it.

The first week of the season. I was offerred Bary Zito for....drum roll please......


..............for my Oliver Perez

I say no more!

why would you not accept this??? Zito is generally one of the more consistent pitchers in the game and o perez died last year. It makes no sense to reject this trade. And whoever thought crisp would have a better season than sizemore is retarded. Why would crisp steal more bases in the red sox lineup? granted i wouldn't have expected the drop-off we have seen this year but crisp had never crossed the 16 hr mark and never posted more than 71 rbis. To value crisp higher than sizemore is a mistake with no justification...

[Iconoclastic]

Do you use Yahoo? Where can you see trades that you offered and were declined?

[teddyballgamemvp]

And whoever thought crisp would have a better season than sizemore is retarded. Why would crisp steal more bases in the red sox lineup? granted i wouldn't have expected the drop-off we have seen this year but crisp had never crossed the 16 hr mark and never posted more than 71 rbis. To value crisp higher than sizemore is a mistake with no justification...

I didn't mean to outperform Sizemore in every category, just overall. If you look at Damon's and Renteria's production last year and you believe that Crisp is a better offensive player (I did, and still do-- I expect him to be healthy and better next year), then the number of hits and runs scored and RBI, etc. would be higher than with Cleveland. Even though the Tribe had a nice lineup last year, it wasn't at all the powerhouse that the Red Sox had, and I expected Lowell and Loretta and Gonzo to allow them to have the same level of production this year (the volume of homers from Ortiz and Manny alone would send Crisp across the plate a ridiculous amount of times-- if he could get on base at a decent clip and I expected he would get pitches to hit because of Loretta and Ortiz and Manny behind him-- and he could score from 1st on every double hit behind him because of his speed). I expected 20 homers because of getting pitches to hit. Francona decided in ST that Coco would have a greenlight on SBs. And Crisp, because he'd see more pitches over the plate, would hit 20 homers. I believe that he was going to have an amazing year before the broken finger. People forget how great he looked in ST (not that it means much, but he started the regular season just like he played in ST).