Trade Deadline 2010

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Jorge Cantu is a Texas Ranger, for Venezuelan right-hander Omar Poveda and home-run-suppressing/strikeout-y AA closer Evan Reed.

[smg58]

Miguel Tejada is packing for San Diego.

[ashie62]

And San Diego steps up to the bar..

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010_swimsuit/models/bar-refaeli/10_bar-refaeli_5.html

[DocTee]

Cantu is a FA at season's end and has stated-- multiple times--that no matter what he is returning to the Marlins next year. Of course they traded him.

[Frayed Knot]

Matt Capps goes to the Twins for two prospects.

Capps was acting as the Nats closer and will probably fill the same role for the Twinkies - or share it was other Nationals' cast-off Jon Rauch - a role that's been in flux since Joe Nathan's injury this spring.

One of the prospects was highly touted catcher (at least defensively) Wilson Ramos who had a big debut when filling in for Joe Mauer earlier in the year.
LHP Joe Testa is the other prospect -- don't know nuthin' about him.

Drew Storen probably inherits the closer's job in Washington.

[Frayed Knot]

Rangers continue to stock up on ... well, anything as they add Christian Guzman from the Nats for two minor league pitchers.
Guzman has 10-5 rights so still has to approve (apparently 10-5 guys get a 24 hr window to change their minds) but is expected to do so.

Minor League pitchers Ryan Tatusko and Tanner Roark to the Nationals. Both were with Double-A Frisco where Tatusko was 9-2 with a 2.97 ERA in 13 starts and 11 relief appearances while Roark was 10-5 with a 4.20 ERA in 17 starts and five relief appearances.

[DocTee]

The Gnats will be good before too long.

Strasburg, Harper, Flores, and these two give them a sold foundation. Storen is good, too. Interesting to see if they can spin Dunn into some more pieces.

[Frayed Knot]

The guy they got for Capps is a catcher because Flores's rehab is not going well at all. Don't think he can be counted on for much of anything anytime soon.

Harper too is at least 3 years away - and that's from being a 20 y/o rookie.

Strasburg & Zimmerman are a good start of course, but that's two. Who knows what the team looks like when Harper is near ready.

[Farmer Ted]

The Mets allegedly offered up Ollie and Castillo to the Cubs for Zambrano. Cubs said no to the Castillo component.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

And the Astros asked for Thole and Parnell for Myers. Which the Mets rightfully turned down.

On the other side of the field today, at least a few more of the D'Backs on the bench may be jetlagged and/or familiar: Qualls for something unspecified to the Rays, Chris Snyder to the Pirates with a minor-league nonentity for Ryan Church, Bobby Crosby and D.J. Carrasco.

[batmagadanleadoff]

The Yankees would've eaten the Ollie Perez and Luis Castillo contracts long ago. Same with the Red Sox. And the Phillies. This assumes that those teams would've been dumb enough to you know what in the first place. Over here in Met land, we're supposed to be hoping and waiting for some kind of alchemy from the Wilpons and Minaya whereby they magically transform these two toxic lumps of untradeable shit into gold, as if there might be a team out there dumb enough to give us Albert Pujols for our fabulously overpaid dregs. The Phillies have two or three ace pitchers and our plan is to allow Jeff Francoeur to accumulate 300 plate appearances by the all star break and for the useless Ollie Perez to take up one of the 25 man roster spots.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't know what's the hurry to eat anything. Castillo's still their best option at second.

I mean, to heck with the Yankees. You want 'em, take 'em.

[ashie62]

Castillo is saleable on a selling team.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: I don't know what's the hurry to eat anything. Castillo's still their best option at second. I mean, to heck with the Yankees. You want 'em, take 'em.

Pavano got a similar three year deal did he not? Was worthless the first two?


and [crossout]had his contract eaten by the Yankees[/crossout] was the Opening Day starter in 2008.

[seawolf17]

I know in my head that this team isn't going anywhere, and making a trade just to make a trade is idiotic with this roster, but I sure do wish they cared about the product as much as we do sometimes.

(sigh)

[Frayed Knot]

Yanx are also paying (Off) Kei Igawa $4mil or so a year to pitch in the minors even though he hasn't been close to helping them anywhere and had the bulk of his money up front. Eating that deal would be a diet lunch compared to Luis's yet they somehow haven't been anxious to dine on it.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: Yanx are also paying (Off) Kei Igawa $4mil or so a year to pitch in the minors even though he hasn't been close to helping them anywhere and had the bulk of his money up front. Eating that deal would be a diet lunch compared to Luis's yet they somehow haven't been anxious to dine on it.

Guys like Kevin Brown and Jared Wright and Weaver and what not also wore out there welcome long before they left.

[bmfc1]

seawolf17 wrote: I know in my head that this team isn't going anywhere, and making a trade just to make a trade is idiotic with this roster, but I sure do wish they cared about the product as much as we do sometimes. (sigh)

I don't understand why they didn't take the Red Sox offer of Ramon Ramirez for Rod. That would have been a minor deal but helped in the 'pen at no cost (Rod won't be here next here and is only catching 3X/week).

And I don't understand why our GM couldn't have gotten a AA starter with a 4 ERA for Francoeur.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Braves wind up with Ankeil & Farnsworth from KC

MFYs get Kerry Wood

Dodgers trade for Theriot & Lilly (for Joyce DeWitt and a Tripper to be named)

[Frayed Knot]

So this gives the Yanx a set of LH & RH DHs (Berkman switch-hits but isn't so good vs LHP) plus a matched set of fat, hard-throwing, under-achieving, former golden-boy RH set-up men.

On the other hand, now the gimpy Posada can't DH as much and no more off-days for the aging left side of the IF as their DH-ing days are gone too unless & until they clinch a playoff spot.

[smg58]

If Berkman can get fully healthy in two months of DHing, that will be a great pickup for the Yankees. Unfortunately.

[Ceetar]

bmfc1 wrote: seawolf17 wrote: I know in my head that this team isn't going anywhere, and making a trade just to make a trade is idiotic with this roster, but I sure do wish they cared about the product as much as we do sometimes. (sigh) I don't understand why they didn't take the Red Sox offer of Ramon Ramirez for Rod. That would have been a minor deal but helped in the 'pen at no cost (Rod won't be here next here and is only catching 3X/week). And I don't understand why our GM couldn't have gotten a AA starter with a 4 ERA for Francoeur.

Sox probably wanted more than Rod that wasn't reported. That'd be my guess.

Would _YOU_ give up an AA starter with a 4ERA for Francoeur? You'd be better of playing that starter in RF.

[bmfc1]

Fair point Ceeter. Maybe a AA starter with a 5 ERA. BTW, all the Giants gave up for Ramirez is a AA pitcher with a 4.09 ERA:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=turpen001dan

But who says that the Mets aren't doing anything... Alyssa Milano is signing autographs tonight:

http://twitpic.com/2agz38

[Ceetar]

bmfc1 wrote: Fair point Ceeter. Maybe a AA starter with a 5 ERA. BTW, all the Giants gave up for Ramirez is a AA pitcher with a 4.09 ERA: http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=turpen001dan But who says that the Mets aren't doing anything... Alyssa Milano is signing autographs tonight.

grabbed a "prospect" for Jacobs. I'm sure they re-configure stuff via waivers.

Michael Baron made a couple of points that do seem like they're basically treating anything this year as gravy though. So..i dunno.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy DC wrote: I don't know what's the hurry to eat anything. Castillo's still their best option at second.

That's the point. Sadly.

[batmagadanleadoff]

seawolf17 wrote: I know in my head that this team isn't going anywhere, and making a trade just to make a trade is idiotic with this roster ....

Agreed. But maybe they'd be going somewhere if the plan wasn't to stick with Jeff Fucking Francoeur for 300 plate appearances at what should be one of the most potent positions for generating offense. I guess that when the Wilpons and Minaya penciled Jason Bay in for 18 HR's by the all-star break, they decided that it would be okay to squander their right field production. Why go all out and try and field an all-solid outfield. And just in case anybody questioned the idea of playing Francoeur regularly, they'd plaster Frenchy's mug all over 3' x 6' subway posters during the pre-season. Because it's cheaper to market their right fielder as a terrific player than it is to actually go out and get a terrific right-fielder. Of course, in Frenchy's case, replacing him with an average right fielder would be like getting Ted Williams. The games in September count just as much as the ones in April do. And if you don't win in April, the games in September will be irrelevant.

[G-Fafif]

Mets trade any possible impulse to send Davis, Niese, Tejada, Parnell packing for patience and realization there are no short-term gains to be made. Best trade of the day.

[metirish]

G-Fafif wrote: Mets trade any possible impulse to send Davis, Niese, Tejada, Parnell packing for patience and realization there are no short-term gains to be made. Best trade of the day.

here , here

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'd have seen what Feliciano and Rodriguez woulda been worth.

[RealityChuck]

G-Fafif wrote: Mets trade any possible impulse to send Davis, Niese, Tejada, Parnell packing for patience and realization there are no short-term gains to be made. Best trade of the day.

Second that. There was no one out there worth mortgaging the future for (and that includes a rental of Lee).