Angels After Tejada Again

Yesterday, Ken Rosenthal said only that Miguel Tejada might become available, and that the Angels have a need.  Now another source, Joseph A. Reaves of The Arizona Republic, says the Halos are making another run at Tejada.

The Ervin Santana and Erick Aybar for Tejada trade last year was nixed by O's owner Peter Angelos.  With Tejada apparently in the midst of a significant power decline (his SLG is down to .421), maybe the Orioles would be more open to the same trade. Tejada makes $12MM this year, $13MM in '08, and $13MM in '09.

Tejada would of course have to be convinced to play third base, and Bill Stoneman would have to finally pull the trigger on a deal involving good prospects.

Even if Tejada slugs around .450 this year, he's still be far, far better than what the Angels have gotten from their third basemen.  Chone Figgins, Maicer Izturis, and others have combined for a .235/.280/.296 line at the position. 

Unless he's included in the deal, a Tejada acquisition would leave top prospect Brandon Wood without a spot on the Angels until 2009, when Orlando Cabrera's contract is up.

Comments

[bravesbeast]

again, makes perfect sense, the angels can trade away from two players away whom they can easily replace because they can replace santana with saunders and figgins and aybar are basically the same player, and with tejada coming in one of them would have been without playing time anyway, It seems to be a great fit, gives the angels that big bat to pair with vlad and feels a position they need at 3b, thus not creating a logjam at another position, and the o's get a pitcher whom still has the potential to be a good 2 or 3 behind Bedard and Lowean, when he gets healthy, and also gives them a shortstop of the future, here is hoping angelos is not stupid and the deal happens

[J.L.]

sounds like a decent trade for both sides. there seem to be some makeup/character issues with santana so i think he'll be gone from the angels one way or another.

[RotoAuthority]

Please stop putting the forum URL in the comments, it is not relevant to the conversation.

Thanks.

[darkstar1661]

I do think the trade itself would be a good one for both sides, but I just have such a hard time seeing Ana actually making it happen. I really don't think Stoneman will ever give up any of his prized prospects and youngsters to help the club.

I really see it more likely that the Dodgers get Tejada and Anaheim taking Mora from Balt instead. Melvin won't cost as much in the way of prospects, but will still provide some power to the lineup at 3rd.

Roto, we don't have a Stoneman profile do we? I really can't think of any trades he's made at the deadline that actually involved more than bench guys. Shoot, I can't even think of many trades period involving guys in the minors other than the one shipping Jenks to the Whitesox.

[darkstar1661]

Oops, Jenks wasn’t traded to CHW, he was released…

Ok, well had some time and I was curious so I put a mini-profile together for Stoneman. Since Jan 2002 I found exactly 15 Trades (one of those was even voided) and for all that *cough* activity, we have 7 happen after the first month of the season.

Those seven deadline deals have landed the team Sal Fasano, Alex Ochoa, Gary Glover, Scott Dunn, Tim Bittner, Jason Christiansen, Kyle Edens and Terry Evans… To his credit though, the last two of those were actually dumps of Esteban Yan and Jeff Weaver.

But we can see the trend ~ no matter what Stoneman just doesn’t make trades to help his team. Really, Cooper for Fullmer and J.Guillen for Izturis/Rivera are the only of the 15 trades to make a difference to the team (both in offseason) and those 2 would also be considered extremely small deals for most GMs in the business. The biggest name he has brought in since Jan02 would probably be Steve Finley, who was past 40 at the time and cost him all of Edgardo Alfonso.

I just cant see him making a deal to bring Tejada in… maybe he will, but look at his track record… For all the rumors he has been involved in, the guy just doesn’t actually make the trades!

Here are all 15 of the transactions:
January 17, 2002 Anaheim Angels traded Brian Cooper to Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for Brad
Fullmer.
July 31, 2002 Anaheim Angels traded Jorge Fabregas and 2 players to be named later to Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for Sal Fasano and Alex Ochoa; Milwaukee Brewers received Johnny Raburn (August 14, 2002) and Pedro Liriano (September 20, 2002).
July 30, 2003 Anaheim Angels traded Scott Schoeneweis and Doug Nickle to Chicago White Sox in exchange for Gary Glover, Scott Dunn and Tim Bittner.
November 19, 2004 Washington Nationals traded Maicer Izturis and Juan Rivera to Anaheim Angels in exchange for Jose Guillen.
December 14, 2004 Cincinnati Reds traded Dustin Moseley to Anaheim Angels in exchange for Ramon Ortiz.
March 29, 2005 Anaheim Angels traded Wilbert Nieves to New York Yankees in exchange for Bret Prinz.
May 17, 2005 Anaheim Angels traded Tom Gregorio to Oakland Athletics in exchange for Mike Zeigler; trade voided (May 20, 2005).
June 30, 2005 Anaheim Angels sent Tom Gregorio to Oakland Athletics for future considerations.
August 30, 2005 San Francisco Giants traded Jason Christiansen to Anaheim Angels in exchange for Dusty Bergman and Ronnie Ray.
December 9, 2005 Anaheim Angels traded Alexi Casilla to Minnesota Twins in exchange for J.C. Romero.
December 19, 2005 Anaheim Angels traded Josh Paul to Tampa Bay Devil Rays in exchange for Travis Schlichting.
December 21, 2005 Anaheim Angels traded Steve Finley to San Francisco Giants in exchange for Edgardo Alfonzo.
February 28, 2006 Anaheim Angels traded Alberto Callaspo to Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for Jason Bulger.
May 30, 2006 Anaheim Angels traded Esteban Yan and cash to Cincinnati Reds in exchange for Kyle Edens.
July 5, 2006 Anaheim Angels traded Jeff Weaver and cash to St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for Terry Evans.

[Dave]

With the MacPhail/Baltimore thing, I wonder how long it will be before the Zambrano/Tejada discussion comes up. The Orioles definitely need pitching, Tejada is power depleted this year, and the Orioles asked for Zambrano instead of Prior in that whole fiasco in 05/06 offseason.

Tejada is owed some money over the next 2.5 years, which might be a sticky situation because of the ownership change, but this one might get revived.