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<blockquote data-quote="champaignchris" data-source="post: 1649584" data-attributes="member: 26283"><p>The justifications for the Yu Darvish trade was that over the previous four seasons, 2017-2020, Darvish and Davies had near identical stat lines. Both had about 3.70 ERAs over about 480 innings pitched. Davies just doing it in a far less flashy, dominant and expensive manner than Darvish. So the Cubs thought they could conceivably get the same performance, while restocking the farm system, and not being on the hook for Darvish’s future contract as he enters his age 35 and 36 seasons</p><p></p><p>This reasoning looked ridiculous after one month of the season as Darvish looked like a Cy Young contender again and Davies was flat out awful.</p><p></p><p>But look again now…. take out April and you get:</p><p></p><p>Davies: 3.12 ERA over 83.2 innings. </p><p>Darvish: 3.59 ERA over 72.2 innings.</p><p></p><p>Now let me be very clear here…. April baseball counts and Darvish is a better pitcher than Davies is and is likely to remain so over the near term. That said, I think that trade is starting to look better than it did a few months ago, especially as Caissie and Preciado continue to destroy baseballs in Arizona. </p><p></p><p>And, yeah, having to throw in Victor Caratini hurt, but Austin Romine was a perfectly decent backup catcher signing and I don’t know how much you can blame the Cubs for not being prepared for three different backup catchers all suffering season ending injuries in the same year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="champaignchris, post: 1649584, member: 26283"] The justifications for the Yu Darvish trade was that over the previous four seasons, 2017-2020, Darvish and Davies had near identical stat lines. Both had about 3.70 ERAs over about 480 innings pitched. Davies just doing it in a far less flashy, dominant and expensive manner than Darvish. So the Cubs thought they could conceivably get the same performance, while restocking the farm system, and not being on the hook for Darvish’s future contract as he enters his age 35 and 36 seasons This reasoning looked ridiculous after one month of the season as Darvish looked like a Cy Young contender again and Davies was flat out awful. But look again now…. take out April and you get: Davies: 3.12 ERA over 83.2 innings. Darvish: 3.59 ERA over 72.2 innings. Now let me be very clear here…. April baseball counts and Darvish is a better pitcher than Davies is and is likely to remain so over the near term. That said, I think that trade is starting to look better than it did a few months ago, especially as Caissie and Preciado continue to destroy baseballs in Arizona. And, yeah, having to throw in Victor Caratini hurt, but Austin Romine was a perfectly decent backup catcher signing and I don’t know how much you can blame the Cubs for not being prepared for three different backup catchers all suffering season ending injuries in the same year. [/QUOTE]
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