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Bowden Comments On Nats' Trade Strategy
Nationals GM Jim Bowden explained his trade deadline strategy today. Basically, he is completely flexible. Very few players are off-limits, and Bowden realizes the Nationals are not going to win this year.
The team's two most interesting players are shortstop Cristian Guzman and closer Jon Rauch, in my opinion.
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Assuming that the overrated Ryan Zimmerman is not avail, Tim Redding and Paul LoDuca are the only other players from this awful roster of that might bring back a decent prospect for the Nats. How does Jim Bowden keep his job?
Posted by: luissojo | July 04, 2008 at 02:38 PM
Ole leatherpants tells all, huh? Austin Kearns has never realized his potential but he might be worth buying low on and hoping to catch lightening in a bottle. But, overall, move on, nothing to see here.
Posted by: MickS | July 04, 2008 at 02:54 PM
Is this the same trade "strategy" he used with Soriano? This implies that he has a clue and I think you can tell by the results. I think it will be time to clean house in the off-season starting with Bowden.
Posted by: Beau | July 04, 2008 at 04:26 PM
although he has done his fair share of pretty dumb stuff, i dont think that bowden coming out and saying this is all that stupid. zimmerman has to be untouchable though, he's gunna be good. i believe its gunna be a interesting trading deadline for the nationals if he does follow through with build for the future mentality. i dont think he will though, very sad
Posted by: 5th Beatle?! | July 04, 2008 at 08:42 PM
If only he used this same strategy in the off-season. Everyone knew that Washington was going to be bad. Why have both Young and Johnson? He could have flipped Johnson for something.
Posted by: bjsguess | July 04, 2008 at 11:29 PM
am i the only one who really likes lastings milledge?
Posted by: bronx | July 04, 2008 at 11:53 PM
bjsguess, Bowden couldn't have traded Johnson over the offseason because he hadn't played in more than a year. Who would have given up anything for him?
And along those lines, Bowden is in a tough spot, as most of the players with any value ("any" being defined loosely) coming into the season are hurt (Zimmerman, Johnson, Cordero, Estrada) just returned from injuries (Perez, Lo Duca, Kearns) or simply suck (Lopez, Colome, Ayala, Pena, Harris). Very few (Belliard, Young, Guzman) could bring much in return right now.
Posted by: thehoagster07 | July 05, 2008 at 02:23 AM
There was plenty of talk about Johnson being moved. While his value certainly wasn't peak he was healthy. There were teams that had a need. Instead he waited, hoping that Johnson who have a Harden-esque rebound. That clearly did not pay off.
But it goes beyond Johnson and Young. The team seriously miscalculated their talent level. This has led to some dubious contracts and player-personnel decisions. If he realized that his team is not close to being competitive different decisions would have been made.
Posted by: bjsguess | July 05, 2008 at 04:47 PM