User Comments, Suggestions, or Complaints | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Advertising
Vivid Seats is a sports ticket broker, concert ticket broker and theater ticket broker offering the best baseball tickets like Yankees tickets, Cubs tickets, and Red Sox tickets, as well as Police reunion tour tickets and Jersey Boys tickets. |
We have baseball tickets, the NFL schedule, college football tickets and Cowboys tickets. We have NBA tickets like Celtics tickets and Lakers tickets. Plus, buy Giants tickets, Patriots tickets and Colts tickets. Also check out our MLB baseball schedule |
Concerts Theatre NFL Angels Dodgers MLB Celtics Theater NBA Tickets Venues NHL Lakers Tickets NFL Yankees NHL Phillies NBA Wicked Marlins MLB Concerts Cubs Mets Red Sox Wicked WWE Red Sox Mets Yankees Dodgers |
Page rendered in 0.7465 seconds
81 querie(s) executed


Reader Comments and Retorts
Go to end of page
Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.
Um ... I'm dizzy ... would that be because he's a starting pitcher and only plays every fifth day? I mean, he's not going to get any more "playing time" than he's getting right now, is he? I need to get over to that mega-store ...
Wouldn't you have to know that to fully judge the trade?
OK, so if the Reds pitch Volquez everyday, they have a chance to come out way ahead on this one.
Happy to have both on my fantasy roster.
My problem with the "trade helps both teams argument" is that those trades tend to happen when both teams trade from surplus in one area to make up scarcity in another. The Reds did that in this trade, but the Rangers really didn't. The Rangers needed pitching as much or more than the Reds did.
Now granted the Reds turned their surplus of capable outfielders into Corey Patterson somehow, so I suppose both teams wound up dealing from scarcity for something they had a surplus of (the Reds lead the National League in strikeouts right now) but it didn't seem that way at the time.
If fielding is a big part of pitching, then Rangers did a good job in upgrading their OF defense in a very spacious park that has wind problems. Boggs (and then Bradley when healthy), Murphy, and Hamilton could all play CF, yet they play all three OF positions. Having them all in the OF on a regular basis means that a lot more balls will be outs. I don't have any numbers to back up my claim, but I think the difference between the Rangers with Hamilton and the Rangers with Volquez is closer than many think. The "Rangers need pitching" line is getting old. People have been saying it for several years, but that does not make it true. The Rangers need to improve their defense. Having good pitchers is but one piece to this puzzle; talented fielders are another. It is entirely possible that the Rangers can trade a pitcher without damaging their commitment to improving defense.
He needs to be given a long,hard look. He is best suited for DH, and I can't think of any teams that are willing to deal with a struggling DH for the remainder of the season to see if he can prove himself.
You must be Registered and Logged In to post comments.
<< Back to main