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Olney On Trades, Hosmer, Pineda

By Ben Nicholson-Smith | May 6, 2011 at 9:50am CDT

Here’s some welcome news for those of us who enjoy trades: executives tell ESPN.com’s Buster Olney that trade talk has started between teams. At this point, GMs are checking in with one another about possible needs and real trade talk probably won’t begin for another month. Here’s the latest from Olney:

  • Royals GM Dayton Moore says first base prospect Eric Hosmer accelerated his own timetable by hitting .439/.525/.582 at Triple-A. Instead of keeping Hosmer in the minors for another month or so to prevent him from going to arbitration four times, the Royals called him up as soon as he appeared to be ready.
  • ”Right now, he helps us put the best team on the field that we can," Moore told Olney. 
  • The Royals had expected to call Hosmer up after about 250 minor league plate appearances, but he’s in the majors after 118 trips to the plate for Omaha.
  • Michael Pineda’s strong pitching is convincing scouts and executives that the Mariners should hold onto Felix Hernandez and look to contend before King Felix’s contract expires after the 2014 season.
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  1. Ravi Kotecha

    14 years ago

    Mariners have the ability to spend $ if they want to (as they did with Figgins, who obviously may not have been the best guy to blow $ on), and they have some prospects including Dustin Ackley coming up. With an excellent 1-2, plus a solid 3 in Doug Fister, they’re on the right track in the AL West. They’ll need to considerably improve the offense through their farm and free agency by the start of the 2013 season to contend.

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    • Johnny Garcia

      14 years ago

      Def very possible for the Mariners to contend by 2013 even, but I don’t think I would ever ever call Fister a solid number three starter. At his best, he is a serviceable fifth starter. I doubt that he is in the rotation of the next Mariners contender.

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  2. michaelseeley

    14 years ago

    It’s Hosmer time baby! Already got my tickets to tonights game! 🙂

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  3. pageian

    14 years ago

    I think it’s a bit silly for the Royals to call Hosmer up now and face a possible four arbitrations with him but I suppose if they really think they are contenders this year they need to make hay while they can. Good luck to them.

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  4. Bo 2

    14 years ago

    Happy Hos-mas 2011.

    The first time I typed the name “Hosmer” into my phone, it auto corrected it to “homers”. How appropriate.

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    • twenty1thirteen

      14 years ago

      Joel Goldberg did the same thing on Twitter on the post game the other night. Awesome.

      Reply
  5. MSUcorner

    14 years ago

    Call me a crazy optimist, but if there was a big bat available right now, the M’s would have s chance at winning the division through that acquisition.

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  6. John

    14 years ago

    If the Mariners were smart they would trade King Felix for a Kings ransom.

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  7. m4r1n3r

    14 years ago

    How did I know someone was going to say the M’s couldn’t possibly contend by 2014? Have you seen what the current rotation is doing? Ackley IS going to be an offensive threat. Read the scouting reports. Dude has excellent plate discipline ALREADY and can hit for power even with a such a small frame. He just needs to work on his defensive skills at 2nd base. Offensively he’s already ready to come up. No…. you don’t trade your #1 pitcher who has specifically stated he wants to play and win for Seattle. Believe it or not Loyalty does still exist. Why do you think he only signed an extension for 80 million when he could have said no and gotten way more as a free agent?

    The only way I see the M’s dealing Felix is a Bedard like trade where it depletes a teams entire farm system. In other words. I don’t think there are any GM’s out there as retarded as Bavasi is to make that trade.

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  8. Jason Collette

    14 years ago

    You might check Ackley’s slash lines thus far in this early season. While I agree his approach is good, he’s over matched thus far. .220/.351/.358 aint gonna cut it even in the post PED, pitcher 2.0, smaller bat barrel era, even for a 2B. Especially, in the hitter friendly PCL

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