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The White Sox do have Jose Quintana. While he's been terrific this year, he sort of came out of nowhere and I'm not sure the Sox trust him in a heated race. Remember they didn't trust Hudson a couple years ago and sent him to Arizona to rent Edwin Jackson.. From the Brewer perspective, its a plus that he's left handed. I suppose something a little creative could be done too, say Greinke and Weeks for Floyd and Beckham. But that's just wishful thinking on my part (getting someone to take Weeks that is).
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Dodgers interested in Aramis Ramirez
JohnBriggs12 replied to slappzilla's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
Headley is under control for 2 more years and is a lot cheaper so the Yankees would have to cough up a lot more. How about Headley to the Brewers, Ramirez to the Yankees, and the Brewers and Yankees each send a decent prospect to San Diego? (say Green for instance in the case of the Brewers). -
Here's what I'm hearing. Ted Lilly is his close buddy. He was already eying the Dodgers for beyond this year. He hoped whatever team he went to he'd be able to sign an extension. Braves training in Florida is an issue. Dempster lives in Scottsdale in the offseason. It's not out of character for Dempster either. He turned down pitching for Canada several years ago.
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Obviously that makes Hart easier to trade, but if you want to move salary (to make room for some guy now playing in Texas), and you can find a taker, you move Ramirez. Hart has more value but he doesn't bring back a difference maker. To get a difference maker, freeing yourself from Ramirez contract regardless of what players you get back is more sensible.
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What do home/road splits have to do with anything? He only has 93 AB at home. That's not a large enough sample. He's done damage this week in New Orleans and Memphis. That's not Reno and Las Vegas. He's 6'5" 265. He can hit the ball out of any park. It's taken him a while to learn to get more lift but he's hit at every level and anyone that size has power potential. His OPS is .080 higher than anyone on the Nashville roster. Isn't everyone else playing in the same parks?
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Hunter who? I'd just like to point out that Sean Halton's OPS at Nashville is now .855. In Gamel's first year in AAA, his OPS was .839. Just sayin.
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I don't think Theo Epstein shares your view. He was in AA at age 20 and more than held his own. He was in the big leagues at 21 and did the same thing. Braves are much more aggressive promoting pitchers than the Brewers. His numbers don't blow you away, but he fanned 574 hitters in 543 minor league innings.
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I agree with adambr in that what we know of the Dempster proposal sets the market for Greinke too. Delgado's hardly chopped liver. He's been 38th and 46th on BA's list the past 2 years, and he's got 24 major league starts under his belt with decent results at just 22. Accumulating young pitching opens a lot of doors on the trade front too and with the likes of Delgado, Thornburg, Peralta, Rogers, Fiers, and Burgos, the Brewers would be pretty well stocked with others not that far behind. A steady influx of young talented pitching isn't something the Brewers have had the luxury of and I think it's the key to sustaining success because it allows them to use resources to fill holes in the everyday lineup with something other than marginal journeymen.
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Dempster prefers going to the Dodgers. Of course this begs this question. Is Delgado enough for Greinke? We now know the Braves are willing to part with Delgado to rent Dempster but if they can't get him will they turn to Greinke? Adding Delgado to the mix of candidates for next year's rotation is interesting. It might allow them to consider moving Estrada into a late inning relief role. It would also give them an extra young arm, which could be key next year in getting that veteran starter in a midseason deal.
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Bottom line though is Tigers got the players they wanted in Sanchez and Infante. Tigers didn't want Weeks and his big contract. So even if they offered Greinke and Weeks, that wasn't going to get the return the Marlins got. Infante is a far better player than Weeks right now, only a year older, and a lot cheaper. Plus he's an ex-Tiger. Maybe the Brewers should be talking to the Marlins now about dealing them Weeks.
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That trade was awful for the Twins from the beginning. If those are the kinds of offers we get for Maldonado, I'd rather just keep him. Capps was 16 of 18 down the stretch in 2010 with a 2.00 ERA helping them get in the postseason. The Twins went 38-22 after dealing for him. There were a lot of reasons the Twins collapsed last year. Capps' role was fairly minor. My point is that Ramos was dealt for a guy with a good track record to fill a very significant role on the team. What he did for the Twins is really irrelevant. The fact is he had significant value.
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Couldn't agree more Funketown. It's a blessing he turned down the offer. Can't believe they offered him more than they (publically) offered Fielder and Sabathia though. Greinke doesn't belong in the same breath as either of those two.
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Wasn't Fiers a "lower ceiling" close to the majors pitcher? Starting pitching inventory that's "close to the majors" is gold. Smart GM's are thinking one or two moves ahead. Going to the winter meetings with a stockpile of major league ready arms will make you very popular. Ceilings are in the eyes of the beholder.
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Free Sean Halton!
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A couple years ago, the D-Backs got Daniel Hudson for a rental of Edwin Jackson. Delgado might not be in Hudson's class, but the thinking of teams involved is essentially the same. In hindsight before this season that was a steal for the D-Backs, but the Sox were in a race and didn't trust the young pitcher and Jackson pitched well for them. Problem was, they still missed the playoffs, Jackson signed with Cards and they lost a fine young controllable arm in Hudson who helped them into the playoffs in 2011, but now is out after TJ surgery.
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Teams interested in Parra and Loe
JohnBriggs12 replied to JohnBriggs12's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
Parra and Loe were brought up in reference to a blurb on MLBtraderumors that teams were showing interest in them. It wasn't from out of the blue. -
Teams interested in Parra and Loe
JohnBriggs12 replied to JohnBriggs12's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
Rob Wooten is another guy they could take a look at. -
That's a pretty good return for 2 months of Dempster. Lets hope it means Greinke would get something along those lines.
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Teams interested in Parra and Loe
JohnBriggs12 replied to JohnBriggs12's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
You could probably replace them on the current roster with Stetter and Jesus (Saves) Sanchez and be no worse off. -
Saw via MLB traderumors that teams are expressing interest in Parra and Loe. Lets hope Doug is listening.
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The Twins were in a similar situation with Wilson Ramos. Now Ramos was much more highly rated as a minor leaguer than Maldonado, but if Maldonado finishes of this year well, it's a pretty fair comparison as both are blocked by young talented everyday catchers (not putting Lucroy in Mauer's class, but that's irrelevant) and Maldonado appears to be guy capable of starting. Twins were able to convert Ramos into Matt Capps, at the time decent major league closer and one could argue that's more value than any backup catcher provides.
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"they might add a guy like Edwin Jackson, a couple BP arms maybe they'll be decent". First off, they had Greinke this year and they've not been decent. Keeping him guarantees nothing either. Even last year, 96 wins was sort of an allusion. Any decent team that played 50 or so of it's games against the 2011 Cubs, Astros, and Pirates, should be well over .500. The Astros are leaving the division. The Pirates are much better, and the Cubs are overhauling their roster and will be good sooner rather than later. They need to address this offense which still hasn't recovered from losing Fielder, add a reasonably priced starting pitcher for some veteran presence, and shore up the pen and hope Axford and Weeks return to form. They can do all that and may still make a run at Hamilton. That makes them decent and if you're decent, at least you have a chance. This year's collection including Greinke isn't a winner.
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I like that scenario as well even if you had to sweeten the deal just a bit with a Green. Unloading Ramirez and Greinke, would set the Brewers up to be players for Hamilton too.
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Weeks in the key 9 game stretch since the break: .156/.250/.313, 12 Ks in 32 AB. Those are numbers not unlike his 2011 postseason. Bianchi who is 0 for 11 has been hitting the ball harder. Lets hope in the meaningless 2 months that are left, he gets hot enough to fool another team into taking him because it's just not happening here.
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The arbitration cost estimate of around $40 million is way too high. Some of the higher priced guys will be non tendered (Loe and Morgan). I figure it's closer to about $24 million for everyone they'll actually keep and that may be a bit high too as Axford is losing some cash this season. That puts the payroll next year without Greinke at around $80 million. There's room there to add a FA starter and a reliever or two and come in under $100 million.