A's Trade Moscoso and Outman for Seth Smith

except for getting something for the smoke and mirrors of Moscoso. Now Parker or Peacock or maybe both make the rotation which is not a direction I wanted to see at all.

For newly signed Bartolo Colon. I think it means Milone and Peacock are likely to make the rotation, with Parker down at AAA to start the year.

I sure as hell hope not

I want to see what Taylor, Allen, Carter, etc can do.

Hopefully this means we see a secondary move involving signing oswald or another FA pitcher who could be flipped at the trading deadline.

but if there were one place I wouldn’t want Moscoso to pitch for me it would be Coors FIeld.

but not our less-sure, older outfielders.

Are we flipping Seth Smith for something?

Smith-Coco-Reddick in the OF, Cowgill and Taylor are extras, as is Allen.

McCarthy
Colon
Milone
Braden (?)
Ross (?)
is the rotation?

with no chance of upside, who’s numbers are inflated in Colorado creating a log jam where our young guys who actually have upside get blocked.

We get rid of two young pitchers who give us rotation depth and one has some post surgery upside, and we start the service time of our upside young pitchers.

Overall I’d say I’m curious.

Especially if one of the ideas of signing Colon was to help save on service time for one or two of the people they just picked up.

Maybe there will be more to the equation by the time the season starts, but did we really need another OF right now who’s mostly a platoon player?

to further muddy the waters

And start the clocks of the young pitchers. Brilliant.

signed Damon and um…. idunno kept their pitching depth

In a vacuum, this is a good move. A’s got good value for 2 meh pitchers. But this move doesn’t really fit into the rebuilding plan and other teams seemed to be interested in Smith.

I actually liked what we got from Moscoso, and I am a little surprised we seem to be ditching even more pitchers for B grade outfielders. Huh. Maybe the belief is that the Coliseum is so good that anybody can look good here. No clue. But this is a total opposite of what we’ve come to expect from cultivating a thick book full of starting pitchers.

Just don’t see a reason to block the young guys.

and now we trade for someone who is an avg hitter at best @ coors field

Thanks, bbg!

Not so much that the loss of Moscoso and Outman are huge (although I do like Outman very much) but the addition of Smith is redundant with the acquisitions of Cowgill and Reddick, two players that Beane is said to have specifically targeted when he traded Cahill and Bailey. Smith costs more than either of those two and will cut into their playing time. That means Beane essentially wasted whatever trade capital he used to acquire one of these 3 outfielders; capital that could have been directed to acquire younger prospects that would hopefully be ready to play when the A’s get a new stadium and are “ready” to field a contender.

are no longer on the team.

I could see it more if Smith were younger.

Obviously things could change further but it seems like the A’s want to throw their young pitchers to the wolves but not their hitters? Did they see enough of Taylor, Allen, Carter at the end of last season to think they won’t stick?