Found July 01, 2009 on Where Is Andy Van Slyke:
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I feel like I didn't quite cover all the bases yesterday on this trade yesterday, so I'll put together one more post here about the things I feel like I missed. As sad as a lot of people are to see Morgan go, I always liked Sean Burnett. I saw his first win back in 2004 as I guess because of that, I always had a special place for him as a fan. He went through a lot of stuff with his arm injury and got really frustrated with the Pirates when they kept sending him back to Triple-A despite a couple of great spring training performances, but he never let that get in the way of things and he worked hard to get back to the point he was at this year. Certainly, a lot of his good ERA was lucky (his BABIP was only .218 this year, so despite a big raise in LD% he was having success on the mound) and we won't really miss him in the long-term, but I'm still a little sad to see him go as a fan. That leads us to Hanrahan, who I haven't really talked a lot about. My gut reactio...
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