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Originally Posted by HeadOfSoxNation
No way the Rangers give up Salty in a Crisp deal...he was the main piece in the Tex deal, and a Tex/Crisp deal would have been laughed at.
Don't get me wrong...I'd love it, but it's just not going to happen without us sweetening the deal substantially.
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I respectfully disagree. Check the Official 07 Offseason Thread, where I've posted a few pages' worth of data regarding the comparative values of the two players. In a nutshell, Coco's great defense and Salty's lousy defense make this much closer than it seems if one just looks at batting stats, and Salty was only about 50% of the value that Texas got for just 1.33 years of Teixeira--Crisp is cost-controlled through 2010, not 2008.