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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Not even an immaculate conception?
As the Angels recently discovered, the D-backs do not intend to trade Haren, who leads the National League in ERA.
“I almost can’t conceive of a package that would motivate us to move him,” one Diamondbacks official said.
The D-backs, viewing Haren as a critical part of their future, declined to engage in serious discussions with the Angels, who could have used their surplus of catchers and middle infielders to put together a blockbuster offer.
The talks could accelerate if the Angels overwhelmed the Diamondbacks with the right combination of players, one source said. But such a deal, for now, appears to be a longshot.
“Surplus of catchers and middle infielders?” Ken, put down the pipe! I’m sure the Dbacks can’t wait to jump on an offer of, say, Jeff Mathis, Sean Rodriguez and Howie Kendrick. Their combined OPS+ doesn’t even add up to Haren’s ERA+ this year…
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1. The Kids Are Enright (1k5v3L)Manny can hook them up with some fertility drugs.
The Angels in some ways suffer from a problem similar to the one the Dbacks have/had: too many minors league teams play in ridiculous offensive environments that severely overrate their hitters. You look at the Angels farm system, and guys who were supposed to be stars are either stuck in AAA (Wood, Kendrick, Rodriguez) or were traded (Kotchman, Callaspo) or are sucking in the majors (Mathis). Having all that depth of marginal prospects doesn't do much for you when they are getting long in the tooth in AAA and losing trade value by the day. The fact that the Angels are playing marginal hitters like Aybar and Izturis over Wood and Kendrick makes you really wonder about those two latter day saints...
Mulder and you throw in a reliever and a prospect.
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