**Official MLB Trade Deadline Thread**

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Originally Posted by jbruin152

I've been on the Penny bandwagon since I went to his first start as a Dodger and have backed the trade since day 1, thank you. :)

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Psshhhh, even I backed that trade from day one and I was a Depo hater. From a baseball standpoint that was a no brainer. Can't tell that to all the people who were in love with LoDuca though.

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Originally Posted by lath19

Psshhhh, even I backed that trade from day one and I was a Depo hater. From a baseball standpoint that was a no brainer. Can't tell that to all the people who were in love with LoDuca though.

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You are one of the few "Depo haters" who liked that deal. Penny getting hurt obviously made that deal look terrible in the short-term.

What other standpoint would you look at it other than a baseball standpoint anyway? :)

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Originally Posted by jbruin152

What other standpoint would you look at it other than a baseball standpoint anyway? :)

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That's what I'm saying. You'll have to ask one of LoDuca's boyfriends (and there were many on here) for that answer.

I was against the trade when it was made, right up through the Mets celebrating on our field last October with Lo Duca and Mota in NY uniforms, with Shawn Green to boot.

A few years later, with Russell Martin here and a whole different team, it doesn't look so bad. My objection wasn't with Penny himself but the timing of the deal (18 games over 500 and pulling away in the division), and the depth of it (ie Hee Miss Ball, trading Mota). As jbruin said, Penny giving us 8 innings that year didn't help, and sucking down the stretch and in the playoffs last year didn't help.