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Brewers Acquire Jody Gerut For Tony Gwynn Jr.
1:58pm: According to Craig Elsten of 619 Sports, the Brewers acquired Jody Gerut from the Padres for Tony Gwynn Jr. MLB.com's Corey Brock confirms it.
Gerut, 31, had a fine comeback year in '08 but is off to a .221/.248/.381 start in 121 plate appearances this year. He's played center and right field for the Padres. His defense rates as a plus. Since he has decent service time he's up to a $1.775MM salary.
Gwynn cleared waivers in April, so the Padres could've had him for nothing at that time. He didn't hit much in Triple A last year.
1:24pm: Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel passes along a tweet from Brewers assistant GM Gord Ash:
The Brewers will have a press release on a player transaction in the next hour.
That message was posted at about 1pm CST. Haudricourt says it is not Jake Peavy.
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Mark DeRosa is still in the Tribe game so you can scratch him...maybe
Posted by: grimace455 | May 21, 2009 at 01:36 PM
peavy?
Posted by: dacubbies07 | May 21, 2009 at 01:37 PM
Could they have dealt Prince? to move Braun to 1B?
Posted by: pas493 | May 21, 2009 at 01:41 PM
Ominous.
Posted by: l0stnumber | May 21, 2009 at 01:41 PM
Gotta be a second baseman. Not sure who it'd be though.
Posted by: Gstill45 | May 21, 2009 at 01:41 PM
This will be boring.
Posted by: tyler | May 21, 2009 at 01:41 PM
geesh, let me guess Grudz or Durham... whoa settle down... too much excitement
Posted by: RoyHobbs | May 21, 2009 at 01:42 PM
"Gotta be a second baseman. Not sure who it'd be though."
Losing Weeks sucks, but they don't NEED to go make a deal to fill that gap, unless they've stumbled across something that was a great deal.
Posted by: huzzah | May 21, 2009 at 01:46 PM
I'm 99.9% sure that its a 2nd basemen. They are playing too well to make a big transaction right now.
Posted by: Dr TL | May 21, 2009 at 01:51 PM
Mets land Fielder:
http://blogs.nypost.com/sports/backpage/
Posted by: dacubbies07 | May 21, 2009 at 01:54 PM
Little Tony Gwynn has been traded to the Padres and will start tonight. Heard it straight from the mouth.
Posted by: mj23thegoat | May 21, 2009 at 01:56 PM
"Mets land Fielder:"
Nice try.
Posted by: Invader3K | May 21, 2009 at 01:57 PM
not seeing it?
Posted by: pas493 | May 21, 2009 at 01:57 PM
"Mets land Fielder:"
i fell for it :)
Posted by: 100backeduptrucks | May 21, 2009 at 01:58 PM
Yeah, sorry.
I just had to.
Posted by: dacubbies07 | May 21, 2009 at 01:59 PM
Brewers acquire Clint Barmes? Maybe?
Posted by: mkorpal | May 21, 2009 at 01:59 PM
Jody Gerut for Tony Gwynn Jr.
Posted by: mariomasv | May 21, 2009 at 01:59 PM
jody gerut for tony gwynn jr
Posted by: johan is GOD | May 21, 2009 at 02:00 PM
damn beat me to it
Posted by: johan is GOD | May 21, 2009 at 02:00 PM
Fielder for Buchholz!
Posted by: wickedsmaht | May 21, 2009 at 02:02 PM
Braun & Fielder traded to the Marlins for a bucket of balls
Posted by: Dr TL | May 21, 2009 at 02:03 PM
Confirmed as well through XX1090AM the other sports station
Interesting to say the least
Posted by: AnteaterPadre | May 21, 2009 at 02:09 PM
What a boring trade this is.
Posted by: Dr TL | May 21, 2009 at 02:13 PM
Not if your a padre fan, its really cool to see Mr. Padre's son returning home
Posted by: AnteaterPadre | May 21, 2009 at 02:14 PM
This just feels like a PR move to make sure Padres fans don't riot over Peavy
Posted by: bcampy | May 21, 2009 at 02:23 PM
Hey, if the Brewers did not get Peavy, I'm happy. Let Jr. go to SD.
Posted by: studio179 | May 21, 2009 at 02:26 PM
Gerut at least is more likely to contribute this year than Gwynn. And Gwynn goes to San Diego, which just kinda seems right.
Posted by: scribbletone | May 21, 2009 at 02:30 PM
I agree with bcampy. Jr could have been had at any time basically over the last 3 years and now they bring him aboard? Definitely just trying to appease the fans. Why did they make such a big anticipation about this? This was a very unexciting trade
Posted by: yanks09 | May 21, 2009 at 02:30 PM
Haha. A game-winning run in his first game with the Friars.
Posted by: Cardinals Fan Forever | May 22, 2009 at 07:09 PM
AMAZING trade for the Brewers.
I rate this trade...
For the Brewers? 8/10
For the Padres? 4/10
Posted by: death. CyaniDe | June 12, 2009 at 04:31 PM