Padres Rumors: Greene, Team Needs

I understand that the reason the Pads do this is because they are wanting to save back some money (this divorce thing is probably gonna get them sold!) -- but i think every team should do this to players who do stupid things to force them to miss time. IE: Jeff Kent and his motorcycle, any one of a hundred pitchers who punch a wall and break their hand.

Agree with CyCub, but it might be a bad move for a player that suffered through such a bad stretch. Just looks really D**chy if you ask me. I agree with the principle but I don't know if this is the best example to make out of it.

Khalil Greene for Ramon Hernandez! I realize the Padres are attempting to shed salary, but it's near-equal value at 1yr/$6.5MM. It also goes in line with Towers using the trade market for a veteran back-up.

After that, he should attempt to pull off Kevin Kouzmanoff for Erick Aybar or Brandon Wood; maybe use a reliever in the mold of Justin Hampson to help LA ignore Kouz' .299 OBP.

Greene to Pittsburgh for Ronny Paulino and a lower-level pitching prospect. Khalil was born in Butler County, about 30 minutes from Pittsburgh. And this makes even more sense once the Pirates trade Jack Wilson this winter and have on internal option to replace him.

"Wow, this sounds really petty."

Why? Alderson seemed to make a lot of sense in the article:

“In a specific sense, it's about recovering payment for services not rendered based on contract language that legally supports our position. In the larger sense, it's about deterring this kind of conduct in the future because the consequences can be critical to a team."

Khalil's the one who acted petty after throwing a clubhouse tempter tantrum, which could have been avoided if he didn't strike out so much.

And what does "it is a stretch to say that he has the power to affect any more Reagins trys to make" mean?

Send Peavy to the Reds for Homer Bailey, Drew Stubbs, Devin Masoraco, Juan Francisco, and Chris Valika. Maybe thrown in a PTBNL. But to me on paper that deal looks good. Better then Bedard by far. Maybe as insurance you take out Valika and add Matt Maloney just because Bailey's struggles. But whatever. It's still a good deal for both sides as far a I can see.

"Khalil's the one who acted petty after throwing a clubhouse tempter tantrum, which could have been avoided if he didn't strike out so much."

This is done by players all the time. Baseball needs to be consistent about such things.

"And what does "it is a stretch to say that he has the power to affect any more Reagins trys to make" mean?"

More = Move, sorry for the typo on that and on "trys" which was obviously "tries".

Re-read in that context.

These kinds of greivances happen every now and then in special circumstances. The Os did it to Sidney Ponson when they claimed his DUI charges were a symptom of a drinking problem which was self-inflicted and kept him from honoring his contract. I think it's a franchise's way of sending a message as a last resort, trying to get the player to wake up and act professional.

"In both cases the possible recovery of $ was minimal. It's less to do with money and more to do with sending a message and drawing a line in the sand."

Given how cheap the Padres are, I think this is about the money.

"The Os did it to Sidney Ponson when they claimed his DUI charges were a symptom of a drinking problem which was self-inflicted and kept him from honoring his contract"

Alcoholism is a recognized disability, and they could get in big trouble for trying to fine him because of it.