Mariners Keep Dickey

Decent move by Seattle. Dickey could end being a legit knuckleballer for a few years in this league.

Does anyone know anything about Fernandez? Does he even project to be a backup in the majors? Or is he just an organizational guy?

dickey would be a decent backup plan if somebody gets hurt, certainly better than homeratio ramirez. what i dont get is why the twins let him go. they certainly could use a starter, either backup plan or number 5 guy. they lost santana and garza. anybody correct me if im wrong but their rotation is liriano/baker/bonsor/slowey and i cant think of the 5 guy. thats not very good.

Livan Hernandez is the opening day starter for the Twins. Liriano is at AAA ball for the first few weeks of the season. Nick Blackburn may be the #5 starter.

I know a few Twins fans who will be very upset about this move. A .260 A-ball catcher for the triple-A Dickey?

I know Dickey would not make the Twins opening day roster but would increase depth at AAA.

Perhaps all these teams don't want the rule 5 players they lost. It may create goodwill among the other teams to allow players to move and stay with their new teams.

The Twins just lost Garrett Guzman to the Orioles this winter and did the same thing, getting a low A-ball traded player back.

oh ok livan i forgot. well they have 5 guys but bonsor/slowey/baker arent really proven and liriano is coming off that nasty injury. it seems like the twins still should have kept dickey. blackburn maybe but besides that the twins cant have much intheir minor league system anymore. they r all with the big club.

I thought Dickey was major league ready ?

Why wouldn't the mariners keep him on the big league club ? Would they have lost Baek if they kept Dickey ? Cause if so, thats understandable since Baek is ok, not better then Dickey, but ok.

All in all, great move by the Mariners. ok move by the Twins, there really wasn't any room for Dickey in the Pen for him

Twins don't really have enough innings anywhere above high-A to shoehorn another starter into the organization. Can't say I'm thrilled to lose Dickey, but what would we do with him?

Wow as an M's fan I just found out that the M's took a huge gamble on this Dickey AAA move. Dickey had to clear waivers!

I'm SHOCKED the Angels didn't pick him up for the interum until Lackey gets back, and then move him to the bullpen for the 2nd half...especially with Shields out now too!

Risky move by the M's, but just to answer your question BaseBaliz Baek was out of options and it was either him or Dickey. This move NOW allows them to keep both. AND Morse AND Jimenez!

These M's move SCREAM OUT trade though!

I'm expecting 1-2 trades over the next 1-3 weeks by the M's.

1) Reed has NO PLACE with our team as long as Ichiro is here. You just CANT have 2 non-power OF starters on your team without consequences.

Trade Solution: Reed to TB for Edwin Jackson.

2) Morse has poor OF defense, and does better at 3B/SS/1B. And with his bat I can see them putting together a package that would include Morse AND Baek. AND it was reported that there are several teams that were HOPING Seattle would cut Norton as a Bench PHer...no such luck...but it was reported today that several GMs were interested in Norton too!

Trade Solution: Package Baek/Morse/Norton. I'm still trying to figure out what MLB team needs a 5th starter, IF with a great bat, and the top PH in the game.

Edwin Jackson is also out of options, so he would have to replace Baek's spot in the bullpen, so that doesn't solve opening up a spot for Dickey unless they went back to a 12-man pitching staff, and cut their bench back.

I just don't see the need for Cairo any longer! That was a waste of $1M this offseason.

Morse & Wilkerson will be platooning NOW in LF. I just can't imagine Ibanez AND Morse in the same OF. That would be a defensive disaster! Morse has been IF skills versus OF defense! Wilkerson is better in RF defense than Guillen was. I suggest that Seattle plays Morse in LF, with Ibanez moving to DH. With Morse @ LF versus Ibanez...that can't be any worse in defense than Ibanez in LF. Vidro would then go to the bench as a pretty damn expensive switch hitting PHer, and a platoon with Sexson @ 1B "if" Sexson gets off to a horrible start.

I think Seattle is thinking that if Morse platoon's with Wilkerson, that will cut Wilkerson's ABs down to prevent his 2008 incentives from kicking in later in the season.

I guarantee the M's will find a way to limit Vidro from getting his 2009 vested ABs this year! Somehow....Someway!!!

The Twins actually have a great deal of good young pitchers, but none of them profile to be more than 3-4-5 starters. They have Bonser, Baker, and Slowey like you said, but they also have Nick Blackburn, Phil Humber, Kevin Mulvey, and Glen Perkins. Any of those guys could probably be a solid back of the rotation starter pretty soon. Then there is their one gem, Liriano, and the crappy innings eater in Livan. It'll be interesting, to me at least, to see how the Twins approach building their rotation for the next few years.

And of course I forgot Deolis Guerra, the other guy that could potentially be a top of the rotation starter. He's still pretty young, pretty raw and pretty far away from the majors though.