Ms Could Trade Reed, Broussard
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's John Hickey reports that fringe players Jeremy Reed and Ben Broussard stand a decent chance of being dealt this spring. With Ichiro in center and Vidro at DH, one or both may be expendable.
Reed remains a valuable commodity, a perfect guy for a team like the Marlins to acquire at fifty cents on the dollar. He enters his age 26 season having survived a trade from the White Sox, a partially torn wrist ligament, Red Sox trade rumors, a serious wrist sprain, and a broken thumb. The Fielding Bible called him "an up-and-coming elite center fielder" a year ago, but he's without a starting gig now.
Can Reed bounce back from an awful .217/.260/.377 line? Baseball Prospectus has him at .267/.333/.399 for '07; ZiPS calls for .262/.335/.393. We have a consensus. The average AL CF hit .275/.334/.437 last year; it was .264/.335/.418 in the NL. There's reason to believe Reed could provide league average offense and excellent defense for a good price for some team in '07.
Broussard is a 30 year-old 1B/DH. He's been used as a platoon guy, but doesn't really have the splits to back that up. As a $3.55MM bench player, he doesn't have much use for the Mariners. On the plus side, he is a talented beat-boxer.
why haven't the marlins traded for him yet. i couldn't imagine it costing more than a decent pitching prospect...which they seem to have plenty of. seems like a match made in heaven
Posted by: boomshwa12 | February 27, 2007 at 10:41 PM
The real question here is: Can Bill Bavasi actually trade these guys for anyone that's worth a crap?
Think about all the horrible moves he has made in recent years. Joe Borchard for Matt Thornton? H Ramirez for R Soriano? Fruto and Snelling for Jose Vidro? Essentially dealing A Cabrera and Choo for Broussard and Perez? Yikes. He'd probably deal these guys for a bucket of baseballs if he could.
Posted by: JakeOD21 | February 27, 2007 at 10:43 PM
Don't forget cutting Bazzardo a decent young pitcher on the 40-man for the Tigers to pick up for free, instead of worse options.
Posted by: Guitar Hero | February 27, 2007 at 11:01 PM
Well it's a good thing the M's didn't trade a talented young outfielder with decent upside to get Broussard just months ago. That would seem like a total waste.
Posted by: nickjs21 | February 27, 2007 at 11:16 PM
Yeah, I remember those Red Sox rumors, short-lived. The Mariners demanded Jon Lester for Reed... ha.
Posted by: the Impossible Dream | February 28, 2007 at 07:09 AM
I definately wouldn't mind the Reds going after Reed, heck wouldn't really mind Broussard either.
If I knew all parties would accept it I'd send Griffey back to Seattle for the pair.
Reed is the type of glove the Reds need to make Dunn's life easier in LF, put a real CF out there and you probably cut his errors in half and reduce his defensive shortcomings as well.
Posted by: schellis | February 28, 2007 at 08:02 AM
What about the Cubs for Reed? Seems like an arm could pry him away or maybe a 3 way deal moving "Joke" Jones to the Rockies. Plus he's a lefty who can play CF and move Sori to a corner.
Good upside move, especially if Bowden won't be reasonable for Ryan Church.
Mark Cuban for Owner of the Cubs! (Too bad I can't vote on this)
Posted by: sbhaass | February 28, 2007 at 03:50 PM