Does anyone here wish we had this trade back? I know we have Robert Andido at SS ready to come up, and at the time we traded Valdez and $$ for Koch we had Gonzo and were in need of bullpen help, but now, with the threat of Gonzalez leaving(which I honestly dont think will happen, I believe Seabass is a career Marlin), do people think we should of held onto him just in case, to have another option besides Andido and Josh Wilson should Gonzo leave?

In retrospect it fairly easy to say one would want this or that trade back. At that time though the Marlins had Josh Wilson in place Alex was healthy and the bullpen needed another arm. True Koch went bonkers and was too far gone to save but it was the right deal at the right time. Since that trade Valdez is on his third organization.

In retrospect it fairly easy to say one would want this or that trade back. At that time though the Marlins had Josh Wilson in place Alex was healthy and the bullpen needed another arm. True Koch went bonkers and was too far gone to save but it was the right deal at the right time. Since that trade Valdez is on his third organization.

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Actually Fourth I believe. I think it was White Sox-Mets-Mariners-Pads. :plain

I don't think Valdez was seen as anything but a future utility guy here.

I miss the speedy utility infielders we used to have.

 

Valdez was going to be nothing more than back-up for us, and while he clearly won a spot on the 2003 team and showed Darren Oliver and the rest of the MLB team up in an exhibition game when he wasn't granted that spot, we were lucky to get what we got from him. As terrible as Koch was, he stablized a bullpen that allowed us to stay in the hunt in June/July of 2004 and see ourselves in the position to even dream of playoff contention come late July and mid-August when the starting pitching broke out of a long slump.