Ibanez GIO! Oh, wait…that’s Philly.
The Nationals, continuing their quest to add a left-handed starting pitcher, are pushing hard to land the Athletics’ Gio Gonzalez, according to major-league sources.
...To acquire Gonzalez, who is under club control for four more years, the Nats likely would need to part with at least one of their young starting pitchers, perhaps right-hander Brad Peacock or lefty Ross Detwiler. The team also is deep at catcher.
The Athletics earlier this month traded right-hander Trevor Cahill and lefty reliever Craig Breslow for three young players — right-hander Jarrod Parker, outfielder Colin Cowgill and reliever Ryan Cook.
The team is entertaining offers for closer Andrew Bailey as well as Bailey, trying to collect as much young talent as possible as it prepares for a possible move to a new ballpark in San Jose.
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1. Xander Posted: December 20, 2011 at 02:36 AM (#4019785)Detwiler is also under club control for four more years, but he doesn't appear to be any good.
i could be wrong on this, but i don't really think gio gonzalez is good enough to actually break a sweat going after. he's a solid pitcher, but you're not going to the playoffs with him as your ace, and if you're going to have to give up real talent to get him, i just think you'd be better off going after felix hernandez or john danks.
Plus, the way replacement level works in the rotation, the #1 starter and the #4 starter are both compared to replacement level. A second or third ace isn't a redundancy, he's equally valuable to the first one.
Yeah - I don't know that a package centered around Detwiler even gets you a Geo.
And I'm going to assume Detwiler was one of Rosenthal's poor attempts at being an analyst rather than him reporting via an actual source. Peacock could be the start of a good package, but I don't see the other moveable pieces.
I have already mathematically proven that with 30 teams, there are 11 aces in MLB at any given point of time. Do try and keep up.
Gio for 4 Jose Lopezes?
No no no, you're supposed to say "QED, Mother-######\" and then drop the chalk and walk away.
Also, can we please refer to to their pitcher as Jordan, so I can distinguish him from their 3B? I only have room in my brain for one association with the name Zimmerman.
Or failing that, can we at least spell his name with 2 n's, like it's supposed to be?
Chalk? What is this, 1998?
Also, Brad Peacock will be very good next season, better than Lannan.
My post had like 3 sentences, you couldn't read them all?
Also, he walks half the damn ballpark. Gio is exciting to watch, but he makes me nervous, like he may go all Ollie Perez on you. But I do think a team with designs on contention and filling out their rotation would do well to explore trading for him.
Also, he walks half the damn ballpark. Gio is exciting to watch, but he makes me nervous, like he may go all Ollie Perez on you. But I do think a team with designs on contention and filling out their rotation would do well to explore trading for him.
I didn't say Gio is worse than Floyd, I said that by FIP, he is. I'm not saying Gio has no ability to prevent his on balls in play - the skill very clearly exists and is valuable - but I'm not sold he has the ability to the degree it's shown in his first two seasons. And if a lot of that is luck / defense, then he isn't much better than Floyd.
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