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No, it's 3pm (I'm not sure if that's Eastern or Central). I'm not sure why, seems odd to me.
Clearly, your clock is broken. It's 11:18 a.m. here.
/smartass
WAY too early but Twitterverse will tell us soon enough.
Supposedly, there was a fair bit of smoke to the Giants being interested but Soriano vetoing the trade.
The LAD Soriano rumors were largely the Cubs essentially saying "If we can't get Lee or at least Webster, then you're taking Soriano, too".
Either way, the Cubs were almost certainly paying so much freight that it doesn't really matter... I can't imagine anything of vale was coming back from SFG.
Soriano's in kind of a different place employing his 10/5 rights than Dempster. If the Cubs pay a ton of freight - then there's a very real chance, a GOOD chance, that whomever takes him on just cuts him loose when the dead cat bounce is over with. Soriano still gets paid, of course, but I think he wants to play and wants the security that his big deal as paid solely by the Cubs afford him... They probably wouldn't seriously considering just eating it ALL until late next year, if that.
So long as he stays on the Cubs, he doesn't have to worry much about finding someone to play him every day. As soon as the Cubs just accept contractual sunk costs -- whomever acquires him has the luxury of being done with him pretty much whenever they please...
I don't know who DKnobler is or why I'm following him.
HA-ha, just kidding. I don't love it at all, not one little bit.
He is only owed about 3M. What is the world could be the deal-breaker?
I think of the Cardinals as a contender, and they seem to be staying pat.
The fact that a team would be getting Joe Blanton.
Right there with you as a Reds' fan.
cardsfanboy: Touche.
As a general thing, I don't understand the general qualms that are reported about remaining salary when mid-season trades are discussed. You read things like 'an obstacle in a Pence deal is his estimated $12 million salary for 2013' which don't make any sense to me because almost every team in the league would take Pence on a one-year deal next off-season at that price. Teams give multi-year deals at 7 figures per to the Werths and Cuddyers every year but lesser salary commitments are reported as if they are cyanide if the acquisition is in the midseason.
That's going to be an interesting thread!
FWIW I follow about 150 baseball-related feeds including a couple Braves ones and I have not heard this at all.
Of course, it was enabled by Ned Coletti's utterly awful offseason, in which he decided not to acquire anyone who had the ability to hit baseballs. The gaping holes in the lineup made it easy for Coletti to improve the team by adding some expiring contract mediocrities on the cheap.
That streak will end whenever the Dempster thing gets done... I mean - OK, so we won't get Lee or Webster, but no way Thed just lets them have Dempster without at least some lotto stuff like Silverio or whatnot. I'm not certain anything outside of Lee is going to be all that much better than a sandwich pick, so if the Dodgers won't do a couple of top 10ers outside of Lee/Webster... well... best of luck.
It really is. It's better than refreshing mlbtraderumors every other minute during the deadline.
Right now, I follow just about every major sportswriter I can think of, along with the beat writers of all the teams I can find. Heyman and Rosenthal are obviously good places to start. If you follow them, you'll get recommendations to follow other like feeds.
Eovaldi was one of their very top prospects and Lindblom was Top 10 according to both BA and Sickels.
Somebody must want Byrdak and Hairston.
Tim Brown from Yahoo has had a number of early scoops, too -- but I generally just use the hashtags and weed through the chaff.
There's mounting evidence that the Giants were willing to take on Soriano, but Soriano nixed the deal. I assume SFG fans will be getting together to get Fonsie something nice for Xmas this year.
Getting Upton would pretty much by definition be a F*****' A trade for the Cubs.
I'm guessing it's so deals aren't being completed during games resulting in all manner of bizarre substitutions or guys simply taking the day off as a "just in case" thing. You get a 5-6 player deal and things could get kind of crazy if it was completed in the 4th inning.
Whaaaa????!!?!?!
Can't really see that happening. I heard a Cliff Lee-Upton rumor earlier today. Does Garza + baubles get Upton? Can't really see that.
I like the MLB Trade Rumor app for my phone. Regular text message updates and I don't have to go sorting through stuff too much.
Isn't he the producer for Dethklok?
Something very, very nice.
Ethan Edwards.
I initially read this as "900 OPS+." Heh. He hasn't been quite THAT good....
But I want the news at the same time they get it! MLBTraderumors can be an excellent source, but they pass on the news, not report it.
You do if he's making 18 mil for the next two seasons.
Even with odds, I don't think anyone on the planet would take the 'over' on that bet next year, or maybe even the remainder of this year.
I don't know that I'd have eaten a lot of contract to get say... Nate Schierholtz in exchange, but for one of the toolsy left-behinds like charlie jones (or is it taylor? I always get the guy on the A's with a similar name confused) I would.
Seriously - TWO HR last night! Think of the help to your bench, contenders!
Some sort of middle infielder would be nice too as Ray Olmedo is currently the Sox utility man.
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Right. Is there some rumor I should know about?
And teams want to give up a live arm A baller for him.
Please trade Denard Span.
Sincerely,
Anonymous Twins Fan Who Is Not Related To Darin Mastroianni
And I don't see the Yankees getting Dempster any more cheaply than the Dodgers - if Dempster wankered us out of a legit prospect, then nothing we can do but just take the comp pick.
And there's no hurry on him. He's the most likely player in baseball history to pass through waivers.
I am. Well, especially with the Youkilis deal. Youk is hitting .255/.375/.462 with very solid defense since coming to Chicago. He replaced Brent Morel (14 OPS+) & Orlando Hudson (40 OPS+). That's a hell of an upgrade, and all they had to give up was Lillibridge & Zach Stewart.
The other 2 deals are fine. Like I said, Liriano's kind of a wild card- he's pitched well over his last 6 starts or so, and Cooper does well with projects like this, but it's difficult to discount 2+ seasons of suck.
Kenny does a really good job of dealing mediocre prospects to get back decent MLB talent, while at the same time finding guys in the Sox system to fix small holes in the major league roster (de Aza in center, Nate Jones in the pen, Quintana in the rotation).
Well the Reds are interested. Is there something I should know about why you want rid of him?
for Dempster?
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