Odd & Ends: Penny, Reds, Nationals, Buchholz

I think most that visit this site are aware of both Taylor and Clay Buchholz.

"I think most that visit this site are aware of both Taylor and Clay Buchholz."

I'm aware of that, just merely stating that when Buchholz name is used than most correlate that to Clay.

"I think Penny is going to command a decent prospect or two. I know the Dodgers had issues with Penny, but I think a Hu/Lambo deal could benefit both sides. With the Mets, a Penny/Josh Thole swap would benefit both teams."

The Sox ain't getting anything without paying his salary.

"Well, probably not true. But the general rule of the thumb is that the quality of the players returning is directly proportional to the amont of salary you pay. So if they pay his salary, they will get better players. But that doesn't mean they don't get anything if they don't pay..."

He has an ERA north of 5.00. Any team giving up value for that deserves the scrub they get.

Does any other Cardinals fan realize that we beat the Indians yesterday because of just Albert? Even on ESPNEWS, they said that he is the only one on the team that can hit. Hint, Hint Mozeliak. Make a freakin trade already.

Players that we should al LEAST inquire about:
Matt Holliday, Brad Hawpe, Miguel Tejada, Mark Derosa, Chone Figgins, Jeremy Hermida, Dan Uggla, Cody Ross, Adam Dunn, Mark Teahen, Jermaine Dye, Adrian Beltre, and Carlos Lee (highly doubtful that he would be traded,owed a lot of money and he was taken out of the game yesterday) I think that the majority of these players are available and I think that the Cards would have the prospects and pieces to pull off a deal for most of these guys. In an ideal world though, Tejada at SS, Derosa at 3rd, and maybe Holliday in LF. No way this happens but it would be nice.

Blanton is an innings-eater, Penny is not. With Blanton you're all but guaranteed 200 innings.

boomer you're kidding right? first of all, I would be embarrassed to be a Sox fan and not know the difference between our top prospect and a journeyman reliever in the NL on the opposite side of the nation. Then, on the Penny front I feel as a Sox fan that he is being overvalued, if the rumors are true. the Donald/penny swap, as good as it sounds being a sox fan, really shouldn't happen. realistically what do you guys see the Sox getting?

"the Donald/penny swap, as good as it sounds being a sox fan, really shouldn't happen. realistically what do you guys see the Sox getting?"

I hope they just hang onto Penny and DL Matsuzaka for the short term. Remember that usually Wakefield's back starts acting up around late July-Early August and he misses a few starts and his effectiveness is diminished from that point onwards anyway.

If the Sox can just get Penny to go 6 innings each start and hold the opponent to 3 runs or less, that is well enough for the 5th starter that is all they are counting on him for at this point, not as a big starter, they have Beckett, Lester as the stoppers, Penny is just another piece in the Cog and if Smoltz cannot go, or Penny falters? Better than trading him for some discard anyway. Eating 1/2 (or less) of the 5.5M of Penny's contract for this year is no big deal to Boston anyway if he all of a sudden starts pitching poorly and Bucholz/Bowden are both more than ready to get the call once again and step in to the rotation.

Matsuzaka is the key here, he has to agree to go onto the DL, he's admitted something is wrong already, just need to get him to go onto the DL and get himself healthy again and that way Smoltz can be called up and no more of this "Penny to X team" for a nobody, or some teams top prospect that will never happen.

Speaking of Chris Britton, I just watched him close out a game last night and get a save again the Lancaster Barnstormers.

"1) Blanton sucks. The Phillies were stupid to make that trade."

Why were they stupid to make that trade? Hindsight is 20/20. NOBODY saw Blanton falling on his face like he did in '09. Nobody. And he still pitched well through the stretch for them last year.

And a couple weeks ago you could have said his ERA was north of 6.00. At this point, Penny is pitching about as well as Blanton was last year when the Phillies traded for him. And, as we all know, the A's netted three pretty decent prospects for Blanton.

Posted by: midtown | June 14, 2009 at 02:03 AM

THe prospects weren't that great. Outman has done nicely but no one thought he was much and I doubt he has much of a future. Cardenas was the big part of the deal and he was blocked by Utley forever. Spencer was a throw in.

Sox won't get much for Penny, sorry Sox fans. He's definitely second tier ability.