Tigers Want Huston Street?

Considering the A's are rebuilding and are looking for cheap players with upside and low service time, I don't see where there is a fit here. Am I missing something? The Tigers seemed to have traded their farm system away.

Actually Det still has allot to offer. They still have 4 top 50 AL Prospects. J. Larish 1B, Y. Bazardi SP, M. Hollimon 2B, V. Vasquez. Not to mention guys on there big league roster who have value and a decent price. M. Thames, F. Rodney. Say a Rodney, Vasquez and Hollimon should do the trick.

"I hope he stays put this season. I want to see the Yanks sign Furcal & CC next year, and move Jeter to LF. Then MAYBE Damon (w/Yanks paying 60%) Marquez, Tabata for Street?"

The Yanks will play Jeter at SS until he needs a walker and is a broken hip injury risk.

They can always trade Porcello ?! Im sure Beane wouldn't mind him.

Top 50 prospects? Sorry, but I don't agree. Holliman was a 25 yr old AA player. Larish is a one tool player at AA and he was 24 already. They will be 26 and 25 year old minor leaguers this year, respectively. Vasquez is the 18th rated prospect according to BA...on the Tigers who, along with the White Sox and Astros, have one of the worst farms in the game. How does that make him in the top 50 overall?
Beane will wait until the trade deadline and get much better players than that.

Even if the A's decide its OK to trade Street, it will cost Porcello... and I don't see the Tigers trading "the next Josh Beckett"

A 25 year old former Cy Young award winner and one of the best young Hitters in the game.

Porcello cannot be traded until july or so. Teams must wait one calender year to trade a draft pick. I also feel as though ryan raburn's name is worth bringing up in a street trade. Wouldn't Raburn and Bazardo get the job done?

Rayburn and Bazardo?? No offense, but there is no way that gets Street. The A's already have a surplus of OF types/prospects and while Rayburn is a nice player his service clock has already started and he will be 27 in less then a month. Bazardo looks to have a ceiling of a #4/5 type starter. I don't see Beane even thinking of dealing his prize closer for that package. Porcello and/or Worth could be included as PTBNL's. With that said, Street is a nice player, but the Tigers should try to do everything they can to hold onto Porcello. Their system is pretty bare, and he is one of the only guys with real upside left. I just don't see Beane dealing Street unless Porcello is involved. He's in no rush to deal Street at this point.

If Porcello is the required ingredient for this deal, it won't happen. I can't see the A's wanting any of the other Tiger prospects who are average at best. It'd be great if they did, though...lol. But, the chances of Porcello being traded are somewhere between 0 and 0.

Porcello is too much and everything else the Tigers have to trade is too little. I think the Tigers are going to have to look in another direction.

Perhaps it would be a 3 team deal? Beane has done that in the past. But seriously, if he asked Joba+Hughes for Blanton, its gotta be the same deal for Street. There's no need to move him unless some team pulls a Swisher-type offer for Street.

Henry Rodriguez's rise up the system will play a huge part in Street's future in Oakland. Embree I guess could be a fill-in but honestly the Tigers have no one the A's want or need. Maybin or Miller for Street would have been perfect, bummer he's gone.

Not that they have a need for him, although he would make a hell of a setup man, but the Yankees have so many pitching prospects, some of them are bound to not pan out. What about guys like McAllister, McCucthen, Marquez, Horne, etc. Oakland could still use high-upside, big-league ready arms.

I just have to comment on the Derek Jeter being moved comment -- If they didn't move him to accommodate a superior defensive player in Alex Rodriguez, why on earth would they move him for Furcal? Insanity! Huston's not going to Detroit.

"I just have to comment on the Derek Jeter being moved comment -- If they didn't move him to accommodate a superior defensive player in Alex Rodriguez, why on earth would they move him for Furcal? Insanity! Huston's not going to Detroit.

Posted by: ksesxe | March 23, 2008 at 03:19 PM"

5 years later makes a BIG difference in decision making

Anyone who thinks that the Tigers have an even decent farm system is definately wrong. Outside of Porcello they have no top prospects. They have some quality guys in Iorg, Bazardo, Sizemore, etc. but those guys pale in comparison to what most teams have outside of the White Sox and Astros.

A deal with the Tigers would likely include Brandon Inge as well as a great deal of money to pay for his contract, because Detroit wants to dump Inge and he can play third while Chavez is hurt or play somewhere else thanks to his versatility.

The A's would almost undoubtedly ask for Cale Iorg as well, because he is arguably their best position prospect now and plays shortstop, a position of which the A's have no designated "player of the future". Iorg could fill that hole as their shortstop of the future.

On top of that the A's would likely ask for multiple other prospects, likely essentially draining Detroits system to nil.

If the Tigers are pushing all their chips into 2008 and the couple years after, then I guess that Street is the guy to go after. He's young and with him and Zumaya they could have a potentailly dominant bullpen long term.

So to me that leaves two potential trade options for Beane and Dombrowski:

Brandon Inge (and $7-8M), Marcus Thames, Cale Iorg, Scott Sizemore and Yorman Bazardo for Huston Street and Alan Embree

OR

Brandon Inge (and $7-8M), Rick Porcello and Scott Sizemore for Huston Street and Alan Embree

I cannot take credit nor am I deflecting critizism for what I am about to propose ( tiger fan buddy of mine made it up) but it made me think twice so figured Iwould throw it out there. Marmol/Veal/Pignatello/Pie for granderson. Pies upside is...Granderson Marmol and pig instantly help the tigers pen and when zumaya gets back the pen just gets nasty. Detroit takes a hit offensively but they wouldn't miss his bat now they have migs. 5yrs of a cub OF of Sori/granderson/fukudome seems pretty sweet. Of course the major snag is I beleive Granderson has a no trade.
Rip away ( watch everyone will love this because its not mine lol )

"Marmol/Veal/Pignatello/Pie for granderson"

I'm a Cubs fan, but I think this trade is equally good for both teams.

The Cubs can an ideal leadoff guy to play center and just flat out rape the NL. It eliminates the potential issue in center and solidies the lineup as probably the best in the NL. The only issue is that with Wood's back spasms, it seems highly unlikely that they would deal Marmol because it would leave Howry as the only healthy, dependable back of the bullpen option. For this reason Hendry would likely persue a Pie/Wuertz/Veal/??? option instead, attempting to hold onto Marmol. I doubt the Tigers would bite on that.

This is a very strong deal for the Tigers. They get a stud reliever in Marmol, which when combined with Zumaya would give them a stunning 1-2 punch in the bullpen. Pie would replace Granderson and be a stud defensively, and without having any pressure to produce offensively in that lineup he would likely develop much better. Pignatello would give them another decent bullpen arm, and Veal gives them a potential high quality starter, and with their awful farm system they could use that.

Personally I feel like this deal might even be too good for Detroit, but thats mostly based on my doubts that Granderson is truly the player he was last year.

I can't remember exactly. I know there were stories about him and Fick and some other guys on that team being unprofessional so to speak. I think a lot of it was just attitude based.

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are you guys damn serious...?
always trying to make everything relate to the damn cubs.

granderson is like the derek jeter of the yankees, david wright of the mets, grady sizemore of the indians, why would the tigers trade him to the cubs..?

you guys say the first thing that come to your minds without even researching.

next thing it will be is derosa and marmol for chase utley or albert pujols, you guys need to stop.

Again, the A's are rebuilding. They aren't going to want Inge or Thames from Detroit's scrapheap. The only way this happens is with a 3 way trade or the A's pillaging the already thin tiger farm system. Don't forget Street is a top 10 closer who hasn't reached his prime and under salary control for 3 full years. The A's will need a good reason to part with him.

Even though its blatantly obvious the A's are rebuilding, they could still find decent use for Brandon Inge if its at 3 yrs/$9M. At $3M he would be a solid value, because he can provide high quality defense at third or adequately play any other position on the field outside of shortstop.

Although its obvious that the Tigers don't have the top quality young players that the A's would prefer, remember that Beane did more of a quantity over quality deal for Haren. He could still do that again here with Huston Street.

But a deal for Street would be the Tigers pushing all their chips into the next 2,3,4 years.

There is no value for Inge. That is why no one is trading for him. He's coming off an injury, and he is overpaid.

The A's didn't get quantity over quality!!!

Hey scribbletone, according to Baseball Prospectus, they have the second best farm system in all of baseball.

Why don't you do a little research before before you say something like that?

The positions that the A's need help in is SS, 3B, and a true CF.

TNS,

You can't possibly believe the Tigers would put Porcello in the closer's role now. I mean the kid didn't even pitch in the minors last year and he looked ok in 5 2/3 IP in spring training. He may have a ton of upside, but lets be semi realistic here. If Porcello is in the majors by the start of 2010 the Tigers should be ecstatic.

Also, just a little FYI, the Tigers haven't invested 7 million in Porcello yet. He signed a Major League contract that guarantees him that much, but it wasn't a bonus, its guaranteed salary. If he were traded to the A's, the A's would be responsible for it (and they already had the chance to draft him and give him that contract and decided against it).

And what about the Cubbies going after Huston Street?

Wood seems like he'll never be healthy and Marmol is rather inconsistent and belongs in the set up role.

The Cubs could offer a package surrounded around Felix Pie, since he could fill your hole in center long term and take over the position immediately. Throw in there Sean Marshall and another decent prospect and that seems like a pretty good deal.

An outfield of Buck/Pie/Gonzalez with Sweeney backing them up would be pretty much set for the next 5-10 years.