Heyman's Latest: Santana, Haren, Estrada

Maybe 1-2 decent Class A prospects that he could put together with some other guys to get Santana.

I only see Haren gettin traded if the Angels acquire Santana or Cabrera! Beane will then jump ship and prepare for next year. Could see Haren, Blanton, Harden, Chavez, Street and Kotsay gone.

Uhh Johnny Estrada for "Maybe 1-2 decent Class A prospects that he could put together with some other guys to get Santana." is a joke. In case nobody has noticed, even though i think people have, Estrada is not a very valuable player. He is a below average fielder, and i have never heard anything good about his ability to call games. Plus, even though yes his bat is decent for a catcher, I still struggle with the fact that his OBP was a whopping .296 last season. The Mets gave up Mota for him, and hes a joke. If anything Omar is praying some team will be dumb enough to give up even a B-prospect, at most.

Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe just said "The Yankees are still very much in the hunt with their talks centering around Melky Cabrera and Robinson Cano."

...is he guessing, or are the Yankees actually putting Cano on the block?

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/

The Mets should just keep Estrada. I don't know why Omar Minaya thinks this, but Hernandez and Laird are NOT better than Estrada..

the Estrada-Mota trade wasn't bad, at least you dont have to give Estrada $15 million like Torreabla. theyre almost the same kind of catcher other than age-wise and Torreabla has more upside. as a rental, Estrada should do okay with the Mets, i dont think the they should spin him off too soon unless the other end gives you a great deal for a catcher like him. if you switch Castro and Estrada every other day, i think you get the production of a .275-.285 regular catcher. i dont see why that can't work out.

I agree. I do think an Estrada/Castro platoon would work. I'm just saying that Estrada has practically no trade value on his lonesome, and just a little more in a package.

hey, here's a thought, maybe the Mets should try to aquire one of the other young Rangers catchers if they aren't happy with the ones they have. Rangers have Taylor Teagarden and that Chad Tracy that went to Pepperdine. Heilman might get you Teagarden. besides, Heilman could be used as a closer if the Rangers wanted. thats just a idea, but its kinda a fun one.

i would trade estrada and milledge for salty and a relief pitcher or prospect

Milledge isnt that great though and neither is Estrada. you would have to somehow get the Rangers GM high on pot before anything of that nature could ever happen. oh, and saltalamacchia is not moving, he is far too valueable to the Rangers right now.

I think Estrada benefits from quite a bit of assessment bias based on his 2004 All Star season - a fluke, career year at age 28. Since then he's been very bad - no walk, no power, empty average offensively and defensively he looks like a guy with a broken arm playing out of position. I never thought it would happen, but seeing Estrada playing last year actually made me pine away for the days of Chad Moeller. How much would you trade for a mix of late career Mackey Sasser on D and Carlos Baerga offensively?

Estrada is beyond awful. Some of the suggestions in this thread are flat-out laughable.

Howevern I distinctly remember being excited about him at this time last year, so I guess I somewhat understand.

All I know is that 1 year later, I couldn't be happier that he's gone. He is a lazy, awful-defense,hack-at-anything-that-moves stiff. Good luck with him.

I would like to go after Shoppach too, while youre there try to pry away Sowers or Lee or one of the extra starters that Cleveland has. I am sure that Shapiro can find some lower level prospects that he likes.