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Originally Posted by Rdsxmbnt
Hindsight is 20-20 on the Oswalt trade. If that trade (Lester, Coco, Hansen and Delcarmen) was proposed today then ya you would do it. But at the time of the trade Lester was one of our best SPs and a top prospect in baseball (5-1 3.49), Hansen looked to be our future CL, Delcarmen looked to potentially be the set-up man and Coco was a 26 yr old OF coming off an injury and a good previous season. As good as Oswalt was(is) I remember thinking that package was too much back then.
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That's the point. You couldn't do that trade today. Houston is going to want a pitcher with cancer and two bums in the minors for a perennial Cy Young candidate? Although Lester was performing well at the time, he was still a prospect. Oswalt was/is a star. The FO blew it in my opinion. I said it at the time, so there is no hindsight here. What has occurred since has done nothing to prove me wrong. I don't expect that the future performance of these prospects will prove me wrong either.