Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Gonzalez, Thome, Hinske, Red Sox, D'Backs, Twins

But they already were fired haha. I'm thinking that when Hoyer is hired, it will make a deal between the Padres and the Red Sox much easier. Hoyer is responsible for a lot of the prospects in the Red Sox system, and it makes sense that he might think very highly of more than a few guys. He has more of an attachment to these guys than other GM's would.

Yea...I don't think that offer is terrible, but Hoyer shouldn't deal Gonzalez unless he can get at least one of Buchholz, Kelly or Westmoreland.

I know this won't happen, but speculating a Gonzalez trade to the White Sox, with the return package beginning with Alexei and Flowers, with Kenny signing Beltre for third and Beckham moving to short. Konerko to DH. The Sox improve infield defense with Beltre and add the power lefty the White Sox desperately need.

Thoughts?

"That would be cool, but im sure a team like the Red Sox will outbid anything we put out, unless Beckham is in the deal and wouldnt trade Beckham for Gonzalez strait up."

I am not so sure of that. Boston has plenty of chips, but many of the top ones are at A ball, or already in the bigs, like Ellsbury, Bard and Bucholz that probably are not going anywhere and Boston has already said that Casey Kelly and Ryan Westmoreland are off limits. They do have several more good pitchers and OF'ers at A ball, as well as both OF'ers Reddick and Kalish at AA and Doubront, plus Pimental, but those guys are not nearly the prospects as are Kelley and Westmoreland, nor are they ready to step right in and help, like Bard, Ellsbury and Bucholz could.

I do think that *maybe* something could be had with the 3 team trade with Bucholz for a young hitter if the Sox are so inclined, that was an interesting idea, just hope it has nothing to do with the Michelin man Fielder.

These fantasy AGon articles are getting as old as the Cubs/Peavy articles six months ago.

I hope Hoyer could get something better for Agon than the proposed trade in the article. Got to believe 1 of the big 3 has to be involved.

"Only thing I could see him being traded for is an established starter and top pitching prospects as SD does well when they have solid pitching in Petco."

i can fully understand that feeling of losing the top player on the team for a pocket full of prospects, my "other" favorite team (beside Boston) is the Fish and they do that on an annual basis, like this year it seems with the fire sale auction appearing to include a combination of Danny Uggla, Jorge Cantu and maybe even Josh Johnson, it does get sickening.

A fear that I have if Hoyer is hired as the SD GM, is his knowledge of the Sox minor league system and especially of the players that they have in the lower levels, as that was his primary job more or less. If some thing would be initiated between the 2 teams and major prospect names left out, the Sox actually do have many, many power arms that have major upside from the GCL on up that am afraid would be included, like 5-6+ and it could be too much possibly IMO, then I am one that prefers to build through the farm system as well..

Eric Hinske to the Marlins.... stupidest thing ever posted on mlbraderumors.com

Johns -

Nothing wrong with building through the farm, I am an A's fan as well and their starting rotation and infield are going to be beasts in the coming years.

I just can't see Hoyer pulling the trigger, yet. The attendance was down half a million at Petco compared to a year ago. Most are still mad about Peavy, even though it was the right move to make. It would make more sense to for him to be moved late in or at conclusion of the 2010 season.

There is no way the Padres will be able to retain him once he hits free agency after 2011 and Blanks should be more than ready by then. The Padres have the luxury of having their future First and Third basemen sitting in the outfield in the big leagues.

WS2009: Hinske can provide much more than Wes Helms. He's been solidly above average hitting his entire career, and he can actually play average defense in the corners and at first base. Note what he did two seasons ago with the Rays as a good example.

If he gets 400+ PA, like I wrote in the linked article, he could still be worth about 1 win, which is pretty good for the price we'll probably pay for him.

Who would you rather have? Prince fielder or adrian gonzalas? and why would you have one over the other?