With today’s trade of Shane Baz, Chris Archer continues to help fuel the Tampa Bay system.
December 19, 2025
With today’s trade of Shane Baz, Chris Archer continues to help fuel the Tampa Bay system.
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It’s moves like that which separates the successful small market teams from the Pirates.
Oh no not the rays farm system! We’ve heard time and time again that we need to stop trading guys for prospects, but the rays do it and they’re a model franchise. How many World Series games have the Chris Archer prospects won for the Rays? It was a bad trade, but it didn’t ruin the franchise like everyone thinks. The trade that did that was the Aramis Ramirez trade.
Mildly interesting. Losing Baz is the only part of the trade that really upset me at the time. 7 years later, he has 3.1 career bwar.
Pirates did something good today… Must. Try. To. Bring. Us. Back. Down.
Well this trade helped the Pirates obtain some higher draft slots, so there’s that.
Dude, I’m sick of this. It was labeled the worst trade in team history by many but what exactly did the rays get from it?
7 comments
Who care
It’s moves like that which separates the successful small market teams from the Pirates.
Oh no not the rays farm system! We’ve heard time and time again that we need to stop trading guys for prospects, but the rays do it and they’re a model franchise. How many World Series games have the Chris Archer prospects won for the Rays? It was a bad trade, but it didn’t ruin the franchise like everyone thinks. The trade that did that was the Aramis Ramirez trade.
Mildly interesting. Losing Baz is the only part of the trade that really upset me at the time. 7 years later, he has 3.1 career bwar.
Pirates did something good today… Must. Try. To. Bring. Us. Back. Down.
Well this trade helped the Pirates obtain some higher draft slots, so there’s that.
Dude, I’m sick of this. It was labeled the worst trade in team history by many but what exactly did the rays get from it?