Should The Nats Trade Ryan Zimmerman?

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by Zerohero

Very good point, as a suffering A's fan im used to seeing our best players traded or flat out not resigned. Hold onto Zimmerman a little longer and get more value, or maybe the team gets better in the time being.

First, let me say GTRIPP I was not trying to pick on you in my last post, you just brought up points that opened up the door for comments I was thinking. I enjoy your posts and the discussion that occurs from them.

zerohero, as an A's fan, you would think you of all people would be OK with it since you traded away big guns and got better from it. Every year from 99-06 you came in 1st or 2nd in your division. Seemingly every year you lost someone. You would make great trades, that seemed bad cause they were big names (Mulder, Giambi, Hudson, Zito, Tejada, etc) but always they turned out OK cause you got good players in return. The A's management doesn't want to spend the money to get that last piece of the puzzle. They were so close for so many years, but didn't want to pull the trigger to put them over the top. I don't see the nationals as that type of team. I think they have been misguided for several years, and now are trying to right the ship. They need a lot of players. The A's had good leadership but a front office that were chicken or unwilling to spend over a certain amount.