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The turning point

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Me and Gabe were talking about this last night when we were playing pool and I figured I'd see if any of y'all felt like joining in. What was the turning point for your team as it currently is? What started the climb to the top, or in our cases, that fall to the bottom?

I know mine was a deal with Jake in 2009. Josh Hamilton had been hurt to start the year and I figured it was going to be another year of him being day to day all season. Jake offered me Grady Sizemore, Jarrod Washburn, Jhoulys Chacin and Mike Moustakas for Hamilton and Cliff Lee, and seeing at the time as how Grady was a better player than Hamilton, I jumped at the deal. Then Grady had the injury that pretty much ruined his career, Washburn retired at the end of the year despite having a great year and I finished .500 last year and blew up my team last week. Now I've got 2-3 years before I'll be a contender again, all thanks to the events set in motion from that deal
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Nationals Juan 0-Encarnacion RF Traded to Astros 4/11/07 9:29 am
Nationals Matt 0-Murton RF Traded to Astros 4/11/07 9:29 am
Nationals Tim Lincecum SP Traded to Astros 4/11/07 9:29 am
Astros Kendrys Morales 1B Traded to Nationals 4/11/07 9:29 am
Astros Angel Salome DH Traded to Nationals 4/11/07 9:29 am
Astros Ryan Braun LF Traded to Nationals 4/11/07 9:29 am
Astros Luke Hochevar SP Traded to Nationals 4/11/07 9:29 am
Decided to build my team around Lincecum and pitching in April of 2007. Of course, Lincecum was still in AAA at that point, but obviously I was pretty sold on him. I stunk in 2007 and 2008 as I was still rebuilding, Nate was loaded, Aaron was pretty good. My goal was never to just win 75-85 games, maybe compete, so I was ok being awful.


The trade that really helped get my team over the hump and into a contender was in the 2008-09 offseason.
Athletics Dan Haren SP Traded to Pirates 10/16/08 6:04 pm
Pirates Derek Holland SP Traded to Athletics 10/16/08 6:04 pm
Pirates Michael 0-Ynoa Traded to Athletics 10/16/08 6:04 pm
Pirates Buster Posey C Traded to Athletics 10/16/08 6:04 pm
Posey and Ynoa at the time were picks 1 and 4 in the upcoming draft. Obviously, Posey has turned out to be one of the best catchers in baseball, unfortunate injury aside. Ynoa, though, hasn't done anything.

Made a slew of other trades (what else is new) and made the playoffs in 09 for the first time since 2004. Pretty confident I'll make it three NL Central crowns in a row within the next week or so, but it's all meaningless if I don't actually win in October.
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My turning point...

After several fun seasons in Colorado - playing against Shawn, Nils, Jag, etc...I had a chance to go to my beloved Mets. Moving from a hitters park to Citi field is a huge difference, and my team was not built for a pitchers park...therefore I mini-drafted...a clean slate for the first time since joining the league in 2006.

While my team hasn't been competitive yet, here are the highlights from the draft that I still have:

Ian Kennedy
Jeremy Hellickson
Jenry Mejia
Andrew Cashner
JJ Putz
David Wright

decent amount of turnover on the rest...but it'd be interested to compare all 4 teams now and see which one becomes competitive quickest.

I belive it was Mets, Braves, Angels and Reds (which moved franchises)? I couldn't find the original draft thread, but here was my draft in October 2009.

1. David Wright
2. Ichiro Suzuki
3. Jorge Posada
4. Nick Swisher (traded to KC/WAS)
5. Jenrry Mejia
6. Jeremy Hellickson
7. John Maine
8. Marc Rzepczynski
9. Ian Kennedy
10. #8 pick in the draft (traded to CLE)
11. #13 pick in the draft
12. Xavier Nady
13. JJ Putz
14. Hong-Chih Kuo
15. Andrew Cashner
16. Jeff Samardzija
17. Sean Rodriguez (traded to CLE)
18. Jose Ceda
19. #33 pick in the draft
20. Rafael Rodriguez
21. Daniel Moskos
22. Jess Todd
23. Pedro Feliciano
24. #38 pick in the draft
25. Rich "Henricus" vandenHurk
26. Brad Hand
27. Chris Carter
28. Chad Gaudin
29. Esteban German
30. Scot Shields
31. Jairo Heredia
32. #43 pick in the draft
33. Angel Pagan
34. Brad Mills
35. #46 pick in the draft
36. Jefry Marte
37. Carlos Villanueva
38. Endy Chavez
39. Tyler Walker
40. Joshua Satin
41. Rockies 3rd round pick
42. Clevelan Santeliz
43. Reed Johnson
44. Ryan Hanigan
45. Drew Carpenter
46. Rob Tejeda
47. Javier Lopez RP
48. Armando Gambino
49. Jeff Larish
50. Rob Manuel
51. Jeremy Horst
2008-2023 Mets: 1,054-1,223...463%
2006-2008 Rockies: 242-244...498%

IBC Total: 1,296-1,467...469%
2022: lost WC
2023: lost WC
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