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JaysGLawrie
what pitchers are supposed to be on the trade market this off season?
johnsilver
They have been listed here for a few weeks. JJ, Vargas are a couple and I wouldn’t doubt seeing Ricky Nolasco being shopped either, tho his name has not been mentioned much in articles.
Lunchbox45
garza, jj, masterson, ubaldo, maybe anderson
johnsilver
Masterson IMO probably sticks with Cleveland now that Francona is onboard. he always liked him in Boston and for good reason. Hopefully he brings in a pitching coach that drops his angle down a bit and he can get more nasty drop again on that sinking FB he lost some on when he brought the angle up even more last year.
Guest 4116
God, Red Sox PR has been especially atrocious this season. They might not be selling the team but based on Henry and company shedding payroll, touting the phony sellout streak, the overall decline of the franchise combined with Henry’s own business tendency of buying when its low and selling after he builds it up… its pretty likely that they’re gearing up for a change in ownership. Bill Simmons said as much. If they’re not selling the team, I’d say the report of them selling a minority or Henry limiting his role seems pretty darn likely.
Sniderlover
“They were in on both the talks for Bailey (for a package likely to have centred around Travis Snider and a top pitching prospect) and Gonzalez (likely built around Henderson Alvarez, Kyle Drabek and Drew Hutchison,
plus catching prospect Travis d’Arnaud and one of the Lansing Big
Three, Aaron Sanchez, Noah Syndergaard and Justin Nicolino). Ultimately,
GM Alex Anthopoulos opted to trade for closer Sergio Santos (the White Sox got pitching prospect Nestor Molina) and stand pat on the pitching front.”
That asking price is beyond nuts. Thank god for not doing it.
Interesting article to see the cost of young controlled starters. It was quite expensive for the teams and the A’s have made out great in those trades, especially the Cahill and Bailey one.
Lunchbox45
alvarez,drabek, hutchinson, darnaud and one of the big 3 is a starting rotation and a starting catcher, lol thats absurd
Jaysfan724
Maybe he was playing The Show? *shrugs*
MetsMagic
To be fair, it’s not a good rotation, but still a lot to ask for. I’m sure the asking price would’ve went down in negotiations continued but the A’s ended up getting what they wanted elsewhere.
East Coast Bias
In fairness, any team could have signed Ibaniez. He’s making just over a mil. Actually, other teams could have traded for Ichiro too, as all we gave up were low level minor leaguers. Not to mention the Andruw signing.
Why not just give Cashman credit for a good sign and a good trade? It seems Brian Costa from the WSJ is trying very hard to forcefully tie big spending and Yankees together when, at least in this case, it simply does not exist.
Let me guess… the Yankees’ deep pockets bought Derek Lowe to NY too, right?
venn177
That entire article reeks of Yankee bashing.
LazerTown
It mentions the money allowed them to bring ichiro to NY, but doesn’t mention the fact that most of it is being paid by seattle. Same with your example of lowe. Sure Lowe is making $15M this year, but cleveland is paying all but the minimum salary to him.
Ibanez it states was a $3M bench player, but it was a $1.1M contract with incentives, based on plate appearances. He got the money because he got 400 plate appearances, not too shabby.