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Odds And Ends: Giants, Maddux, Grudzielanek, Arias
A few post-deadline notes from the MLBiverse...
- Brian Sabean is confident that he will be able to sneak some of his veteran players (Rich Aurilia, Omar Vizquel, Randy Winn, Bengie Molina, etc.) through waivers in the coming month for the purpose of making a trade. Chris Haft feels that the large number of teams remaining in contention will make that very difficult.
- Kevin Towers does not sound optimistic about the possibility of trading Greg Maddux in the next month noting that such a move would be "dicier" and any trade would still require the Dodgers to "step up and give us the prospect package [the Padres want]."
- Bob Dutton reports that the Royals will still try to move Mark Grudzielanek.
- The Astros claimed relief pitcher Alberto Arias off waivers from the Rockies. Arias had been DFA'd on Tuesday and the Astros will send him to triple-A.
Cork Gaines writes for RaysIndex.com and can be reached here .
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The Dodgers acquiring Maddux thru a waiver trade is virtually impossible; any team below LA in the NL West could put in a claim just to block it.
Posted by: abcrazy4dodgers | July 31, 2008 at 06:46 PM
The name's Rich Aurilia...
Posted by: celipliz | July 31, 2008 at 06:51 PM
"Step up and give us the prospect package the Padres want"
How pompous. I've got a prospect "package" for Towers.
Posted by: DodgersLBC | July 31, 2008 at 06:51 PM
The Mets should definitely try to claim Randy Winn if he's put on waivers...
Posted by: Hyro | July 31, 2008 at 07:19 PM
Seriously, does Kevin Towers think he is Billy Beane or something? Maddux isn't worth the "prospect package" he likely wants.
"The Dodgers acquiring Maddux thru a waiver trade is virtually impossible; any team below LA in the NL West could put in a claim just to block it."
Don't be so sure. Maddux isn't much of an improvement over what they already have. Seems kind of piddly to do that.
Posted by: AA | July 31, 2008 at 07:19 PM
FTA: "We're confident that this is an ongoing process," Sabean said. "It's not like our players aren't going to get through waivers."
Nobody wants your overpriced garbage, Sabean. You better hope that a team needs to desperately fill a void left by injury.
Posted by: romansempire | July 31, 2008 at 07:27 PM
If the Giants wanted to move all those players they should have done so before the trade deadline. What advantage is there to wait?
Posted by: bjsguess | July 31, 2008 at 07:38 PM
Injuries may strike and require a team to give up a better package...ie if Ryan Church comes back (god forbid) the mets will be in dire need of OF help.
Posted by: corbin | July 31, 2008 at 08:04 PM
corbin - I'm sure your right. Just seems like a bad strategy if you are talking about 3 or 4 players vs maybe one guy you hope to push through.
Oh well. My guess is that the Giants get saddled with those guys for the rest of the year.
Posted by: bjsguess | August 01, 2008 at 12:57 AM