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Lefty_Orioles_Fan
Well, the O’s could look to Napoli for next year.
As for this year, Cueto would be nice. However, I would rather see someone like Carlos Gonzalez acquired. The O’s don’t have anyone that creates fear in the line-up and while Car-Go is just having an okay year, he just might do the trick.
Plus, I think Car-Go could teach the rest of the O’s about sacrifice flies.
Brixton
Why would you want CarGo?Over the last 2 years, his OBP is under .300, BA is .240 and hasn’t been good defensively.
thecoffinnail
Left out injury prone and his stats should be better because he plays in Colorado.. Maybe he meant Carlos Gomez?
Lefty_Orioles_Fan
I think Car-Go needs a change of scenery. The Orioles would do that for him.
Also, no I don’t mean Carlos Gomez from the Brew Crew.
mstrchef13
Lefty has had a man crush on CarGo for a while now. The fact that he’s below average defensively, constantly hurt, and puts up terrible offensive numbers away from Coors Field hasn’t deterred him as yet.
jbroks86
Why in the world would we want Napoli or Car-Go? Napoli is plain horrible out there and even more with the glove.
Gonzalez is just as horrible though at a even worse salary per year. Injury prone, plays bad defense. Plus he’s hitting horrible at Coors, what’s to say he’s all of sudden going to hit at OPACY? Anyway sacrifice flies are far from Baltimore’s problem, OBP is. They need to work on a SP and someone that can help there OBP. A corner OF for sure, but not Gonzalez.
johnsilver
Don’t think much value in Napoli. With the expanded strike zone this year, he has been really exposed. Outside pitches, just off the plate he just can’t touch and they have been called strikes too often with him. He’s taken it onto the field some as well, affecting his overall game.
Sox probably should have DFA’d him several weeks back when some team might have picked up a tiny portion of his salary, doubt anyone would pay any now.
scissormetimbers
I’m not sure what top of the rotation starters are available with team control AA (outside of Hamels, who isn’t coming to TO). Package Norris, Pentecost and Pompey and lets get Cueto and Chapman!!!!!!
Matt Galvin
Napoli to Tigers or Cardinals?
scissormetimbers
Napoli to be DFA’d and sent to Pawtucket after he goes unclaimed
gomerhodge71
Napoli was suffering from sleep apnea before this season. Maybe the Red Sox should just hire someone to keep him awake all the time? Evidently, the extra sack time isn’t helping.
ashley
If AA trades away his top three prospects for two months of Cueto and Chapman, he should be fired immediately for incompetence. For those top three, AA would have his choice of Kuechel, Sale, Walker, Miller, Degrom, Syndergaart, Harvey, Cole, Lynn, Gray, Carlos Martinez, etc. NO rental players should ever be obtained for a teams top three prospects, regardless of who they are, since there are NO guarantees that they sign for a team-friendly contract past the end of the season. The Jays were burned badly when they traded Syndergaart and d’arnaud for Dickey and he was a disaster from day one. A GM that doesn’t learn from his mistakes is an unemployed GM.
scissormetimbers
That’s a fair deal, when you trade for the best pitcher and reliever available, its going to hurt. Plus, it seems like they are higher on Hoffman over Norris, so essentially your keeping your best prospect and not touching the 25 man roster.
ashley
The point you are missing is the Jays will need to replace Dickey and Beurhle in 2016. If you throw away Hoffman, Norris, plus your future catcher for a two-month rental, you have destroyed next year, as well as rolled the dice in 2015 that the team wouldn’t end in failure. The Jays are now in this situation because 2012 decimated their farm and the players are now starring on other teams, not Toronto, and of course Toronto are now trying to fill the same holes that the prospects would have filled. I pointed out in an earlier post on another board that Hamels has thrown 65 innings against the AL in the last four years. In those 65 innings, he has given up 45 runs and more importantly, he has been shelled for fourteen home runs in 65 innings. Those stats would see a player released, not traded for at 22.5 million per season. The Jays already did that with Dickey and Syndergaart would have looked nice in the rotation now. As fans have pointed out, any GM that sells the farm for a two-month rental should be fired, because teams can sign them for only cash at the end of October. There are many closing options and if San Diego continue to fall in the standings, Kimbrell is already signed for four years and would cost a lot less to acquire than Chapman. He could probably be had for a Tirado and Mitch Nay package. The Jays could obtain Niese and Parnell from the Mets, for Smoak, Goins, and Jimenez. The Jays could then trade Dickey and replace him with Norris in the rotation, which would be an instant upgrade, having Parnell, Osuna, Cecil, and Kimbrell anchoring their bullpen for the stretch drive. Castro could be called up to replace Loup and the bullpen would be a strength. Loup and Dickey could go in the same trade and the team would instantly improve 100 percent.
scissormetimbers
Why wouldn’t you take a chance with the best offense in MLB over the last decade? Your trade proposals are unrealistic, you can’t package utility players and expect to get something useful, this team needs more than a Norris/Neise injection in our rotation. Kimbrel alone probably cost Pompey & Castro
RichW
LOL Fantasy trading online does not work IRL
Draven Moss
Those three guys listed above don’t land you any of those guys. All of those guys you just listed are cost-controlled aces. Add Hoffman to the mix and you might get some interest. Cueto is a rental, and those guys always have to be overpaid to land. Chapman is arguably the best reliever in baseball, with an extra year of control. He is gonna cost a ton too.
chris to.
Houston, St. Louis, and New York Mets are all contenders or close to it, so I highly doubt they would want to trade any of their best pitchers for prospects.
Sale is unlikely but it would cost much more than that to get Chicago to listen. Sale is under control for a few more years and is an elite pitcher.
Gray is the most likely target of those you said, and it is hard to say what Beane would ask for but he does like his pitching.
I think, in my opinion, a package for Sale would look like:
Sale for Norris, Pentecost, Pompey, Sanchez, Castro, Reid-Foley
Gray for Norris, Pompey, Castro, Pentecost
That’s just my opinion though.
Adderlyn
Hope the Yankees don’t make a trade for Cueto. He’s great but the price to get him would be too high for just two months, I’d rather they make a run in the offseason when he’ll be FA.
Steve_in_MA
A $16MM salary on a guy hitting below .200 is a problem. There’s no lack of an obvious replacement for Napoli. That is one thing that is not an obstacle. We have Nava coming back off the DL, Travis Shaw coming up from AAA (and looks marvelous), and Pedroia will soon return from the DL, meaning Brock Holt will move over and play first. We have 4 or 5 options to replace Napoli at first and in the lineup. What we don’t have is any eager takers for his large pay grade.