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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
What do you mean "no way"? Hill has been unhittable for 14 starts (.180 avg against). He's 7-3 2.16 ERA vs Cueto 7-6 2.62 ERA when he was traded last year. Hill only avg 6 IP vs 7 IP for Cueto but he will be the big fish avail this deadline and will command a ton
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There's the matter of track record to consider when positioning Hill in the market.
Cueto had five years of staff ace brilliance on resume, where he had performed like a top 5-10 starter in baseball.
Hill has only pitched at this level for 2/3 of a season, if you count the second half last year (and even then, he wasn't THIS good). He's less of a proven commodity.
As such, I'd guess that his trade package would look more like what the A's got for Scott Kazmir than what the Reds got for Cueto.
And that wasn't a tremendous price - a couple of prospects outside the top 100 on all lists.
I also still don't think the package surrendered for Cueto was much, BTW. Finnegan and Lamb are bullpen pieces at best at this point. Reed is the guy from that trade who I think ends up being a major leaguer you actually miss in a few years. He's the only one who might make an ASG or something like that.
And that package is still much more than what Oakland got for Kazmir.
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