Good for laughs - Teixeira Rumor Mill

by clark on Jul 14, 2008 4:31 PM CDT

If you haven't already, venture over here to read some wonderfully naive Braves fans throw out their trade hopes and dreams for Teixeira. The best part is that the names are almost identical to the names we saw thrown around last year. To the Red Sox for Youkilis, to the Dodgers for Loney AND Kemp.

The best proposed trade had the Braves sending Teixeira, Ohman, and Lillibridge (a package that varies from the one we sent last year by one less year of Teixeira and one more C level prospect in Lillibridge) for Youkilis AND Buchholz.

Nice.

I have a feeling we have already seen the major fireworks for this year's trade deadline.

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if they get

buchholz, im gonna be mad

by kumizi on Jul 14, 2008 4:36 PM CDT 0 recs

dont worry about that

they wont.

"Do they know who I am? Do they know my status? Thats what I thought."
-Miles 6/21/08

.501 or bust!

by Jayslick on Jul 14, 2008 4:39 PM CDT up 0 recs

Not Happening

The Sox won’t even take Tex for Youk straight up. So is Bucholz worth Lillibridge and Ohman? Umm…...NO!

by meatbonelefty on Jul 14, 2008 4:49 PM CDT 0 recs

I could be wrong

but I still think the Rangers and Red Sox match up better than any other teams out there. they need a young catcher and they could need a DH to replace Ortiz. They have young pitching and a few bullpen arms on the cusp. This team can afford to trade Bradley and Salty or Teagarden for Michael Bowden, someone like Daniel Bard or Hunter Jones (two guys who take the two open spots on the 40 and who could be auditioned with the big league club for the rest of the year), and then a third player like one of their young OFs (Reddick, Kalish, or Lin). Maybe I am just as naive as the aforementioned Braves fans, but that would seem like a decent deal for both parties.

by clark on Jul 14, 2008 4:53 PM CDT 0 recs

We match up well with the Reds, as well

Not for unloading vets necessarily,but for lessening the catching surplus and bringing in talented young pitchers who may have a hit a proverbial wall at their current stop. (Sound familiar?)

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Stuff-You-Need-Brett-Favre-action-figure-bench?urn=nfl,93739

by BudLight on Jul 14, 2008 4:56 PM CDT up 0 recs

sir

it sounds like you are talking about homer bailey.

i suppose, if we really want to throw out crazy scenarios, we could include teagarden in the hypothetical red sox trade and salty in the hypothetical reds trade and still have Laird and Ramirez as our catchers.

but that is pretty out there.

by clark on Jul 14, 2008 5:00 PM CDT up 0 recs

they have some really nice positional prospects

and most of them are a little further down the prospect chain. I really like reddick, anderson, kalish, and even lin though I dont know much about the last one other than some recent hype, but I didnt know much about beltre before we were in talks to acquire him.

I am a little skeptical on bowden. I wasnt too disappointed when we opted for gabbard + beltre over him probably because I have never been that high on him. You have to be careful when dealing with prospects from both new york teams and boston, and to a lesser extent atlanta. Those teams enjoyed so much success in the 90’s and get so much publicity, that often their prospects get over hyped. That may or not be the case here, however I have heard his velo has been down and his command so-so. Take it for what its worth, maybe the scouts caught him on bad outings and he is fine, I am just not sure I by into him as anything more than a number 3 type pitcher at best.

I'm sorry my parents never had me sarcamsized.

by rchawk12 on Jul 14, 2008 6:55 PM CDT up 0 recs

just picked myself up off the floor

The Braves offered Teixeira to the Red Sox for Youkilis and Hansen. What are they smoking down there ATL?

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/

"An effortless 98" - Scott Gardner after Neftali Feliz's first AA pitch

by RangerMad on Jul 14, 2008 5:09 PM CDT 0 recs

Adenhart

interesting to read that the Angels may build a package around him for the Braves to get Tex. Sign about how much Adenhart may have fallen this year on the prospect radar more than anything else.

The Angels are the only team from which I wouldn’t mind the Braves getting a stellar return from. Though really, from what we’ve seen of Andrus, Feliz and even Harrison and Salty, there is pretty much no way that any deal for Tex will get within a mile of what we got.

by JBImaknee on Jul 14, 2008 5:55 PM CDT 0 recs