take that! bleep

did you see MJH’s trade market tracker article on the DMN blog today? He states that he believes a Greinke trade would have to involve Feliz, Teagarden and Andrus. I’m definitely on board with bringing in a guy like Greinke but is it me or does that price seem way too step? I don’t think Greinke would cost that much, do you?

Here’s what he said:

Over the past several months, there have been suggestions that the Rangers and Royals might be talking about a Zack Greinke deal. The 24 year old Greinke is in his first arbitration year and thus the Rangers would control him through 2011.

As I’ve said before, I would expect a deal for Greinke to include names like Feliz, Andrus and Teagarden. That’s a lot to pay for a kid who skipped out of spring training a couple of years ago because he didn’t know whether he wanted to play baseball anymore due to his problems with depression.

Who could we package with Vazquez to get the most value? Vincente Padilla? Salty? Max Ramirez? Blalock? Cat? Do the Yankees need a utility infielder? If so, we could toss a catcher with Vaz
I’m hoping for a nice trade before the deadline to toss a couple arms in AA or A-ball. Starters, middle relief, closers, we need it all.

Strategery

(tlaking about theu nhappy with the rangers thing, not the post-game thing)

But after hes thought about it for a week now…

Is it really that hard to understand that he’d be benched for the guy he replaced for injury and a superprospect thats mashed the ball? What did he really think was going to happen?

The last time he played as many games as he has both this year and last was 2003. The guy hit the lottery by coming to a team whose 3b went down with injuries and didnt have another replacement, reviving his career. You’d think he could see the big picture.

Oh well. I dont find anything he said too offensive, but none the less I do find my opinion of him dropping a bit.

I think he’d be traded if our 3b wasnt the new mark prior of infielders.

I like Vazguez and everything and he’s done all sorts of nice things for the Rangers this year and last, but he not good enough to act this way.
How can he not understand that 3 errors, a completely failed bunting attempt, plust the whole pick off thing doesn’t equal boos? That’s ridiculous.
He is the definition of a spare. I can’t imagine that he will be that hard to replace. Whether it’s Roberts or the immortal Drew Meyer. If he’s gonna be a jackass, cut him or trade him.

Lets not rule out that he’s probably played his way into compensation picks this year (probably a B type, but good enough for me). He has a 130 OPS+, which offsets his typical year last season and probably puts him high up there. Of course, he’ll be ranked as a 3b and not a SS – I don’t know what that means for his ranking.

That said, I see no reason not to trade him now. The only reason not to would be that you want to keep him next season as your utility guy, and if you know he wants to leave, then get what you can now. I’ve pondered moving Vazquez to LA for a while…

very irritating.

although its weird with blalock. yesterday I didnt want to trade him, and thought he might be traded. today I want to trade him (final straw injury wise.. I thought he might be over it), and of course now he cant.

I dont think the rangers were going to trade bradley, but I wouldnt have been too opposed to them doing so. Now that would seem to be less likely as well, though I dont know if hes going on the DL or anything.

and with CJ looking worse than ever in the pen, it makes it harder to trade eddie.

the only trading situation that seems to remain particularly plausible is catcher and maybe some throw away deal for cat.

something the Rangers should be aggressively pursuing almost as much as young pitching?

I mean, obviously, I’d want them to focus on pitching. But, I think a young 3B has to be priority #2.

Or Ron’s decisions.

All I care about is we have the worst fucking pitching staff seemingly of all time. I can understand how JD can sleep right now, we are in the middle of a rebuilding season the playoffs are out of our reach, so right now its ok to see what we got. We have maybe 1 or 2 people that could pitch for other teams, the rest most teams would just laugh at, then bring up someone from the minors who is already twice as good as our trash heap.

But the day the off season hits, I want a braveheart style charge at anybody and everything that resmbles good pitching. I want the entire staff overhauled.

You’re a role player. If Blalock wasn’t hurt all year you wouldn’t be getting any playing time. Be thankful you had an opportunity to build up your value.

Adam, you don’t get happy about any win, what are you talking about? You’ve got Skip Bayless disease.

Vazquez did get screwed this year. Chris Davis came on a 1b and earned his right to be the starter, even though he was told he was holding a spot until Blalock came back. Vazquez did the same thing at 3b, but was given the boot for Mr. DL. Murphy might as well be batting with his eyes closed vs LHP, yet he still gets hacks while Vazquez rode the pine. No one said it had to be fair, and it definitely wasn’t for him. They simply showed him he wasn’t in the future plans. Can’t blame him for wanting to leave.

1) Rangers trade SS/3B Ramon Vasquez to the Dodgers for minor league P Javy Guerra.

2) Rangers trade C Jarod Saltalamacchia to the Detroit Tigers for RP Fernando Rodney, 3B Brandon Inge, and a minor league player(possibly expand the deal to include Willis??)

Christian the Lion was adopted as a cub by a couple of British lovers. They took care of him for years until it just wasn’t practical to have a full grown lion in their house. They had to put him out in the wild.. a year later they went back to see him.. see what his reaction was …

http://youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U

hhmm.

was one of the worst wins I’ve ever seen. I absolutely hated that game. Even after the Rangers won I was just as upset and disappointed as if they had lost. The pitching and defense was enough to make any fan sick to their stomach.

OMFT I think is going to be the only Ranger actually dealt amongst all the talk.

Screw Vazquez. You are a 30+ year old utility player. You go out there and play when you are told or when someone else is hurt. As “The Rock” would say “know your damn role, and shut your mouth”. Trade him for any mid level prospect if you can. As for him being upset about being booed. Get over it. IMO if you are a professional athlete getting PAID to play a game, and if you under-perform, you are subject to being booed. Deal with it. I personally wouldn’t have booed him, but he should be a big boy and be able to handle it. Some fans are sick of seeing bad defense and you made 3 errors that almost cost the team the game. What I disagree with is booing a college or even high school athlete.