More trade rumors...

by ortonius on Jul 24, 2008 8:51 AM CDT

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/07/heymans-lates-6.html

The Twins, Giants, and Dodgers have interest in Hank Blalock, who has a $6.2MM option for '09.

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Dude

Most people check that site…. Maybe you should listen to your own advice….

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by TheBZA on Jul 24, 2008 9:01 AM CDT 0 recs

Ditto

I prefer fanposts to at least offer additional information or an opinion, or some research or something other than a link to a rumor that’s already widely known.

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by t ball on Jul 24, 2008 10:44 AM CDT up 0 recs

Blalock

There’s no point trading him. His value is, at best, ambiguous.

The org will keep him as a cheap option for this year and next, because there are no better free agents this winter, and there’s no 3B depth in the minors.

You want to move Young there, you still have to sort out the next SS. And a long-term fix is going to require most of 2009…

Andrus, Vallejo, Lemon, even Duran: all are viable SS options about a calendar year from now.

So keep Blalock, and the possibility he has a nice year before FA, as your 3B until then.

Go Strangers.

by hightowersmith on Jul 24, 2008 9:14 AM CDT 0 recs

gagree

unless someone overpays (LAD?)

"They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids."
-Tito Fuentes, after getting hit by a pitch.

by Haeger Champ on Jul 24, 2008 9:24 AM CDT up 0 recs

there's no harm...

...in shopping hank and seeing what his value is… if someone is willing to moderate to slightly above value prospects for him then you absolutely take it… you move vazquez back out there, let him hit .265 the rest of the year, and find a stop gap for next year… either way, there is nothing wrong with putting hank on a hook and see what bites… again, i’m starting to get the feeling like we don’t make any moves this year, but i’m hoping i’m wrong…

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by ivysafety39 on Jul 24, 2008 9:32 AM CDT 0 recs

I think people forget that Blalock was not just a decent prospect, he was the #1 prospect in all of the minors. Higher ranked than ANYONE we currently have in our system. He’s still young and has loads of potential- and has actually shown it on the big league level. We have no 3b to fill his shoes. Trade him for a moderately valued prospect? Like someone whose ceiling would never touch what Blalock already has done? I am absolutely dumbfounded by all of this “trade Blalock” talk.

by aggiecurt05 on Jul 24, 2008 9:36 AM CDT 0 recs

i think...

....he’d do better with fresh start somewhere, he’d get us back good prospects, and after next season, 3b belongs to FOTF…

I blame it not on Ron Washington, but on society. Society is to blame. And Ron Washington. ~Ken Tremendous on Ron Washington sac bunting in the 11th vs LAA

by ivysafety39 on Jul 24, 2008 10:03 AM CDT up 0 recs

The Giants?...

...do they think they’re contenders?

by oc on Jul 24, 2008 10:55 AM CDT 0 recs

No but

Hank isn’t exactly a rental player. He is still young and would immediately improve that anemic offense.

Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.

by bigsteve on Jul 24, 2008 11:01 AM CDT up 0 recs

any1 in the NL West is a contender.

if Seattle were in the NL West… they’d think they are contenders…

poor NL West.

wish we were in the NL West.

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by Jayslick on Jul 24, 2008 11:01 AM CDT up 0 recs

They just need offense..

They could be with just a little better offense..

Hank seems like a great fit there..

Too bad Noah Lowry had to get hurt… anyone know what the deal is with him?

by tyd3311 on Jul 24, 2008 11:01 AM CDT up 0 recs

60-day DL...

...assigned May 30th, 2008.

s’all i got…

by oc on Jul 24, 2008 11:10 AM CDT up 0 recs

Remember that game against the Rangers where he walked like 7 in the first couple of innings?

by Telegraph on Jul 24, 2008 12:04 PM CDT up 0 recs

I say too bad about Lowry

not necessarily because I would want Lowry, but that just lessens their pitching depth and maybe their willingness to part with Matt Cain.

by tyd3311 on Jul 24, 2008 12:08 PM CDT up 0 recs

what...

...do they have to offer? anyone know their system?

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by ivysafety39 on Jul 24, 2008 11:37 AM CDT up 0 recs

I'd hold firm

demanding Lincecum. If it weren’t for the stupid Pete Incaviglia rule, I’d think we could also get Posey as well.

by JBImaknee on Jul 24, 2008 11:51 AM CDT up 0 recs

wow

that’s ridiculous. I hope you’re kidding because there is no way that the rangers would get Lincecum without having to part with a lot more than just Blalock. Think about adding Andrus and Font at least.

baseBALLIN!

by kevzta on Jul 24, 2008 1:23 PM CDT up 0 recs

Hank Blalock, Eric Hurley, Elvis Andrus, Kasey Kiker, Nelson Cruz for Tim Lincecum

by oc on Jul 24, 2008 1:40 PM CDT up 0 recs

my post was sarcastic

making fun of the “Teagarden for Buchholz” type deals we’ve seen suggested the last couple of days

by JBImaknee on Jul 24, 2008 2:13 PM CDT up 0 recs

San Francisco is 42-58, 7.5 games back

Arizona is in first place at 50-51.

by Inkara1 on Jul 24, 2008 11:39 AM CDT up 0 recs

Roy Halladay

http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2008/07/ny_yankees_in_the_market_for_a.html

ROY HALLADAY, Blue Jays RHP

The whispers just won’t go away. Halladay is apparently unhappy in Toronto and has let management know it, and management has apparently responded by doing some quiet surveying of teams (such as St. Louis and the Dodgers) that are far, far away from the AL East in an effort to see what it could get for the 2003 Cy Young Award winner. Apparently, the returns other teams are getting for top-talent pitchers such as C.C. Sabathia, Rich Harden and Erik Bedard has inspired the Blue Jays to at least find out what it could get for one of the best pitchers in the American League. It remains unlikely that they’d deal him, but you never know.

Let’s see what we can do here…. Jays need a catcher, their choice of TT/Max/Salt… Need a SS, Elvis…. Need a 2B, Vallejo…. Need a OF, JMJ? and probably a low level arm such as Kiker.

Would you do it? Salt/Elvis/Vallejo/JMJ/Kiker for Halladay?

by AirJordan on Jul 24, 2008 11:57 AM CDT 0 recs

I had a dream some times back where we traded Hammy for Halladay

Needless to say, I woke up a very confused man.

by Telegraph on Jul 24, 2008 12:05 PM CDT up 0 recs

if i thought we were an ace away from contending.

which i dont think we are.

by kumizi on Jul 24, 2008 12:05 PM CDT up 0 recs

How about

Roy Halladay and Neftali Feliz in our rotation come the end of 2009?

by tyd3311 on Jul 24, 2008 12:09 PM CDT up 0 recs

I doubt it happens

but if you managed to trade for Halladay, then signed Sheets this winter, that’s a formidable rotation.

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by t ball on Jul 24, 2008 12:13 PM CDT up 0 recs

its more than

formidable

Think if Neftali ends up being what it’s looking like he might be, wow.

by the end of 2009: Halladay, Sheets, Feliz, Hurley, and (it doesn’t really matter with the first 4)

That’s just a dream.

by tyd3311 on Jul 24, 2008 12:19 PM CDT up 0 recs

Well

I don’t know that you breakin Feliz as a #3, but yes, you’d also have a healthy McCarthy, Hunter ready, Harrison in the mix…

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

by t ball on Jul 24, 2008 12:30 PM CDT up 0 recs

I was just listing in terms of talent

by tyd3311 on Jul 24, 2008 12:38 PM CDT up 0 recs

I'd certainly have to consider that

Especially since Halladay’s penchant for pitching complete games makes it almost like you’re getting both a starting pitcher and a relief pitcher.

Knowing our luck, we would do that and Halladay’s elbow would explode into 8,675,309 pieces in his second inning as a Ranger.

by Inkara1 on Jul 24, 2008 12:05 PM CDT up 0 recs

I do it.

"They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids."
-Tito Fuentes, after getting hit by a pitch.

by Haeger Champ on Jul 24, 2008 12:08 PM CDT up 0 recs

Yeah

There is little cost to us for trading a catcher – we’re going to trade 2 of them eventually anyway.
They’ll want a 2nd top prospect, so bye-bye Elvis.
Vallejo and Kiker are the type of young guys who you give up in deals like this. Sometimes they turn into Feliz, other times they turn into Arias.
JMJ is a throw in I won’t lose sleep over

Of course, I think a similar package maybe could get Grienke from KC, and he’s younger and cheaper. I would pursue that option first. I like the approach though.

by JBImaknee on Jul 24, 2008 12:17 PM CDT up 0 recs

I just don't see...

what’s so special about Greinke. He’s solid, and a good story – but I don’t see a front of the rotation arm when I look at him.

"They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids."
-Tito Fuentes, after getting hit by a pitch.

by Haeger Champ on Jul 24, 2008 12:19 PM CDT up 0 recs

You just called him solid

who do the Rangers have that is solid in their rotation?

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by Agreen07 on Jul 24, 2008 12:43 PM CDT up 0 recs

Greinke over Roy?

excuse me but isnt one coming of a season of crazy and doesnt have 2 years of service time left and solid and the other is one one of the best pitchers in baseball. why would greinke be the first option? for a similar package?

holy crap. perspective ppls. perspective.

by Jayslick on Jul 24, 2008 1:03 PM CDT up 0 recs

Halladay is a free agent

after 2010. Which means you are trading two top prospects for two years of a #1. Thats great, and I’d be okay with it, but you better make sure you can win in 2009 or 2010.

Grienke has several years beyond that, and could probably be tied down longer. You’re trading youth for a guy not too much older. There are advantages to that deal.

I know some people are anti-Grienke, but I have a feeling he’s going to be one of the best pitchers in the AL for a long time.

by JBImaknee on Jul 24, 2008 2:16 PM CDT up 0 recs

Greinke

Greinke is only under team control through 2010 as well.

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by Andy Seiler on Jul 24, 2008 2:20 PM CDT up 0 recs

thank you

by Jayslick on Jul 24, 2008 2:29 PM CDT up 0 recs

This might sound dumb

but i don’t think Halladay will be able to produce the same numbers in the Texas heat over the period of a full season.

The Eagle has landed....

by Lonerangers on Jul 24, 2008 3:14 PM CDT up 0 recs

but

he’d produce numbers that are a hell of a lot better than anyone else in the Rangers rotation right now.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

by t ball on Jul 24, 2008 3:18 PM CDT up 0 recs

Same Old Story

We’ve said that about a lot of guys.

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by Andy Seiler on Jul 24, 2008 3:48 PM CDT up 0 recs

Are you disagreeing

that Halladay would be better than anyone currently in the Rangers rotation? I would not give up half the farm to get him, but he’d be an upgrade in both performance and number of innings.

He’s past his prime so I wouldn’t give up near as much as Mil did to get Sabathia.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

by t ball on Jul 24, 2008 3:57 PM CDT up 0 recs

Roy Halladay

is greatness.

by tyd3311 on Jul 24, 2008 3:58 PM CDT up 0 recs

Roy Halladay...

...age?....

by oc on Jul 24, 2008 1:03 PM CDT up 0 recs

Turned 31 in May

On March 16, 2006, Halladay signed a $40 million, 3-year contract that will keep him with the club through 2010.

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by Rodney on Jul 24, 2008 1:25 PM CDT up 0 recs