Marlins/A's/D'backs trade?!?!

[seawolf17]

Per the twitters:

@mlb wrote: BREAKING: @Athletics get @CY24_7 (OF Chris Young) in trades that send Heath Bell & Cliff Pennington to @Dbacks. @Marlins add INF prospect Yordy Cabrera.

Chris Young for Cliff Pennington?!?!

[ashie62]

That is for real...Oakland buys low on Chris Young and sells Pennington high who will start at SS for the Dbacks.

[DocTee]

Wasn't Heath Bell supposed to go to the MFY as part of the A-Rod deal?

[seawolf17]

Eff you, Sandy, for not offering... ... Justin Turner? I don't even think we have anyone as terrible as Pennington.

[MFS62]

Sandy probably didn't want to repeat the old "having two Bob Millers on the same roster" thingie.


Later

[A Boy Named Seo]

Head-scratcher. I wouldn't want the 2 yrs + $13 mils left on Bell's contract without giving up Young. Score A's (and Marlins).

[metirish]

MFS62 wrote: Sandy probably didn't want to repeat the old "having two Bob Millers on the same roster" thingie. Later

Ha! , I think there was even some confusion on @Twatter as to which Chris Young it was.

[Frayed Knot]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Head-scratcher. I wouldn't want the 2 yrs + $13 mils left on Bell's contract without giving up Young. Score A's (and Marlins).

The Marlins are paying a chunk of Bell's remaining deal.
Still a bit odd I suppose, although Young hasn't been what some thought he would by now either [.231/.321/.434 in 2012 which is about his career stats also] plus he's already 29 y/o and is due to make $8.5 in 2013, then comes an option for $13

[A Boy Named Seo]

That 2/13 is, I guess, what's left after the Marlins pay their freight. Agreed on Young, but wouldn't have minded that gamble either. If he repeats his 2k12, you buy that option out & he's but a memory.

[Edgy MD]

seawolf17 wrote: Eff you, Sandy,.....

Really?

[seawolf17]

Relax, homeboy. Just taking the piss, as they say. I got Sandy's back.

[Edgy MD]

Woosh!

[RealityChuck]

MFS62 wrote: Sandy probably didn't want to repeat the old "having two Bob Millers on the same roster" thingie. Later

Or the Bobby Jones issue.

Though I'd love for the Mets to go for three.

[nymr83]

-A's did very well here, getting a talented centerfielder for trash.

-Marlins did well to jettison the Bell experiment without paying ALL of that terrible contract

-Luis Gonzalez hit that beautiful bloop single up the middle off Rivera, fuck the Yankees. Oh, the trade? They got killed.

Keith Law puts it best: the Marlins were lucky to unload Bell and nobody will remember it when some dumb GM gives Valverde 3 years 36 million this offseason.

[Ceetar]

Nymr83 wrote: Keith Law puts it best: the Marlins were lucky to unload Bell and nobody will remember it when some dumb GM gives Valverde 3 years 36 million this offseason.

Unless that's the Marlins.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Keith Law puts it best: the Marlins were lucky to unload Bell and nobody will remember it when some dumb GM gives Valverde 3 years 36 million this offseason.

You think so, Doctor?

He's been so poor that he's forced 'pen-traditionalist Leyland into a bullpen-by-committee, on national TV. I'm thinking 1 year/6M or 2 years/10M, tops.

[nymr83]

Whether its specifically Valverde or someone else isn't the point, the point is that multi-year big dollar closer contracts generally don't work out, and then everyone forgets that and keeps giving them out.

[ashie62]

Keith Law puts it best: the Marlins were lucky to unload Bell and nobody will remember it when some dumb GM gives Valverde 3 years 36 million this offseason. You think so, Doctor? He's been so poor that he's forced 'pen-traditionalist Leyland into a bullpen-by-committee, on national TV. I'm thinking 1 year/6M or 2 years/10M, tops.

Frank Francisco money.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

That's the profile he's taking to his next employer, pretty much.