...is 12-5 with a 3.55 ERA

thanks for all you do Jake Peavy...this Bud's for you

...is another weakass argument started by Cub fans who think they can rile up Sox fans. That trade was a no-brainer at the time, and still is.

Petco Park
Bank One Ballpark
AT&T Park
AL > NL



Try again, sport.

fail...I'm a Sox fan too

Kenny Williams is a bully.


My point is perfectly clear to anybody with half a baseball brain.

fail...I'm a Sox fan too

the trade was never a no-brainer when Peavy was hurt and u gave up 4 pitching prospects...you give up 1 or 2, then I would think about it

I completely forgot the Sox had Peavy.

Peavy has 10 Sox wins at $15 million. Richard has 17 Padre wins at $425k. Bernsie will tell you they both have WARs of 1.3 this year.

This is why I hate numbers. Their comparison doesn't take competition into account.

Yes and no. They compare wins at the end of the season to see who makes the playoffs so more wins are good I guess. Look, I didn't really have a strong opinion about the trade, but those against it said it was too much money for someone with injury concerns, not so much giving up Richard. Well Peavy's injured and he costs 15 million, so yeah, that was a valid complaint. Richard pitching "well" is just icing on a shitty cake.

I agree on the shitty part of Peavy being injured. I won't argue that because it blows. I'm sick to death of the revisionist history of The Great Clayton Richard and how good he was here last year. He was ok, but not great. I'm happy to see that he has found success. Bully for him. I'm tired of the argument that he would be doing the same thing here, because, while I won't definitively say he wouldn't be, there is no way to know that he would be either.

I agree, I don't remember some huge outcry that giving up Richard was a bad move. Most even were pleased based on Kenny's record of giving up pitchers that never turned out to be much.