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Take Taveras out of it because nobody is looking at him as the centerpiece to this deal. You just answered the question, you said you don't think they'll be any better than Jennings the next couple years, but they could do as well as Jennings will do. So to trade both of them to get pretty much the same production back, and pay alot more for it makes absolutley no sense. The line they will use to sell the deal is that Jennings is a "proven" player, which is a dumb argument when the "proven player" has proven to be nothing more than average.

And as far as not being impressed with those guys numbers, Hirsh put up better minor league numbers than Jennings ever did, and Buchholtz pitched a half season in the majors last year and put up basically the same type line as Jennings. I don't know if your expecting to see Kazmir type minor league numbers or what, but both of them put up very solid years at AAA for their age. If Houston put both of them in the rotation this year at least one would have put up Jennings numbers, and more likely both would have been reasonably close.