Comments on: The Paradox That Is Josh Bell https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-paradox-that-is-josh-bell/ Ideas Involving Pittsburgh Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 By: Kevin Creagh https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-paradox-that-is-josh-bell/#comment-1304 Thu, 11 Jun 2015 11:50:15 +0000 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/?p=1885#comment-1304 I don’t quite remember it that way. I thought that it was a bold move to draft him — I wasn’t against him. I did say that I had a firm amount that I would pay him. If I remember, some posters were saying to pay him crazy, exorbitant amounts of monies. I can’t remember what I argued for the max to be.

I did make a radio spot on Savran’s show after his signing and try to temper expectations. I told Stan that he was a 3-1/2 tool player and not the next McCutchen — you could audibly hear the wind going out of his sails.

But feel free to discuss my thread about “Does Anyone Think We Should Have Taken Posey Over Alvarez?” that I put up right after the draft. That’s one I remember quite clearly.

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]]> By: alvarez09 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/the-paradox-that-is-josh-bell/#comment-1298 Thu, 11 Jun 2015 03:07:20 +0000 https://thepointofpittsburgh.com/?p=1885#comment-1298 Great summary. Great piece. I remember on OBN you were dead set against the Pirates taking Bell and then argued against signing him. Do you still feel that drafting and signing him was a mistake? If not, what has changed your mind?

I miss those days at OBN and wish I could still post there. Its to bad you stopped posting to.

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