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Greinke or Justin Upton

Postby demo13 » Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:03 am

It is a keeper league and I was offered Justin Upton straight up for Greinke. Should I do it?
My current keepers are listed below (but to me it has no baring because I can make up for any shortcoming in the draft).
Current keepers:
Sandoval
Alexei Ramirez
Adam Jones
Jay Bruce
Borbon
N Morgan
Greinke
Lester
Kershaw
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Re: Greinke or Justin Upton

Postby dave knight » Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:51 am

Excellent deal for you. Huge ceiling on Justin Upton.
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Re: Greinke or Justin Upton

Postby HOOTIE » Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:38 pm

dave knight wrote:Excellent deal for you. Huge ceiling on Justin Upton.

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Re: Greinke or Justin Upton

Postby brotherbird » Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:11 pm

The hard things about pitchers for offensive players trades is how desperate you are for what you need. I like how you think about getting pitchers in the draft. You'll miss Greinke maybe 2 times a week. You'll love Upton almost every day.
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Re: Greinke or Justin Upton

Postby gocards » Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:12 pm

I would do it.
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Re: Greinke or Justin Upton

Postby MaudDib » Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:23 pm

HOOTIE wrote:
dave knight wrote:Excellent deal for you. Huge ceiling on Justin Upton.

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Re: Greinke or Justin Upton

Postby tribefan08 » Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:28 pm

offense over pitching always...

upton will be better in the long haul, and has more potential, pitchers are so volatile, you never know when they'll have to have a surgery, etc....

pitchers = risky

upton = first rounder in 2011
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Re: Greinke or Justin Upton

Postby burntfaceman » Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:39 am

It's always a good idea to sell high on pitchers and get a great bat. I was actually able to get Teixeira for Greinke in a long-time keeper I'm in, but I agree with everyone here that Upton is a great grab as well.

Also, and I'm sure I'll get some disagreement, but I'm not particularly fond of your keepers, especially Morgan and Borbon. I don't like trusting rookies as my keepers and I don't like keeping guys coming off career years out of nowhere. I even think Alexei and Adam Jones are questionable keepers.

So if it were me I might try and squeeze just a bit more out of your guy that might actually be a better keeper than one of those guys. Greinke is your best trade bait, so milk it for all it's worth.
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