Quote:I get it. We could've resigned him. We probably should've resigned him.

The reason we didn't pursue that is because we drafted Luke.


Our GM was counting on Luke being better. He's not.

 

You said, "the only way the Eugene Monroe trade turns out OK for us is if Luke Joeckel plays better."

 

I'm saying that is nonsense.   The Eugene Monroe trade has already worked out for us, because what we traded was the last 12 or so games of his contract in exchange for 4th and 5th round draft picks, which we used to draft Telvin Smith and Aaron Colvin. 

 

We cleaned up in that deal.   We traded less than a year of Eugene Monroe for picks that we turned into two great young players. 

 

It was a brilliant move.   I don't see how anyone can argue that.  

 

Now, you can say, we should have re-signed Monroe.  But that is irrelevant to the trade.   We could have signed Monroe whether we traded him or not.   We could have signed him even after we traded him, because he became a free agent at the end of that year and put himself on the market to the highest bidder.    So that has nothing to do with that trade. 

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