We are trade good young talent for these guys. Elvis I think is the next Hanley Ramirez and Florida is getting a SS, Pitcher, and Nelson Cruz whom I believe is a good player and will develop into a very nice everyday OF for years to come.

that one might fly, though I fail to see why they’d agree to take on Blalock when they have Gordon at 3rd and Butler can play 1b. Something like Salty, Borbon, Holland and Poveda would probably get it done. Think about the Dan Haren deal when thinking of Grienke.

That Hanley trade is just f’ing ridiculous. May as well ask them to throw in Uggla and Maybin.

Who knows what Bailey’s value is at this point. My guess is the Reds are just going to hold on to him. There’s no way they could get real value for him at this point.

those are all way too logical suggestions. please try again. think more abstract.

Anytime you read “x trades we should make before next year by The Ahmad”, you should open the thread only for the comedic qualities that it will no doubt contain.

If click on it looking for intelligent baseball opinions and thought provoking concepts and you’re frustrated by the content, its your own fault. You should know better by now.

HAHA

ree-diculous

davis, andrus, feliz, teagarden + throw in arm (young latin kid, holland, beavan, main) might not be enough to get the guy

be so short!

Prepare for the wrath of Ahmad.

herpes feels its value is much more than that of the ahmad. herpes counters and asks for the ahmad and miles.

Thus, you can’t set the over/under and then choose one of them.

Pet peeve.

He got clubbed in his first stint in OKC. He got clubbed even worse in his 2nd stint in OKC, yet still was subsequently called up. If someone isn’t ready, don’t call him up. This is reminiscent of us calling up Volquez in ‘06 even though his control was horrible (he had the worst BB-IP ratio in all of minor-league baseball among all starting pitchers with 75 or more IP, even worse than Thomas Diamond’s and fellow walk machine Radhames Liz). What a surprise that Volquez got destroyed and that two years later his control is still pretty bad. He was rushed to the bigs unfinished.

As a Ranger fan, I place a high value on those, especially the cheap and under long term control variety.

there ought to be a hall of fame for posts like this. specifically, posts of a serious nature with high unintentional comedic value.

I brought up the idea of a Bailey for one of our catchers deal to Will Carroll last weekend, and he said he could see it. Will also said that the stories about Bailey not being very responsive to coaching are also true, and that the Reds question whether or not he really wants to play baseball.

Bailey might be a good “buy low” candidate, but yeah, he’s apparently a real mess at the moment.

Same here. We should move a catcher in the offseason, and Bailey as a buy-low arm. The guy has a low 3 ERA in his career at AAA. If we could get him for Laird + low level prospect I’d be ecstatic.

MY’’s range is going to continue to deteriorate after this year and honestly, who knows if Blalock’s shoulder is going to hold up to play 3rd base for the entire year.