Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
Hold The Astroglide: Dodgers Not F'd After All?
A proposed three-team mega-trade that reportedly was on the road to getting done Thursday night hit the skids.Whew. We have holes at 3B, C, and three rotation spots, or two depending on whether you count Ishii as a real pitcher, and this is the kind of deal we see floated?A baseball source told ESPN that several obstacles stand in the way of a trade involving the Yankees, Diamondbacks and Dodgers, and that the deal rapidly exceeding the complexity of last year's failed Alex Rodriguez-to-Boston trade might never happen at all.
Earlier reports indicated that the teams were closing in on a trade that would send Johnson to the Yankees, Javier Vazquez and prospects Eric Duncan and Dioner Navarro to Los Angeles, and Shawn Green and pitchers Brad Penny and Yhency Brazoban to Arizona.
The trade was proposed before Adrian Beltre agreed to a $64 million, five-year deal with the Mariners on Thursday. By failing to re-sign Beltre, the Dodgers may rethink their role in the trade, ESPN.com's Jayson Stark reported.
More on today's events at Dodger Blues.
I just can't/don't want to imagine the Dodgers turning LoDuca, Mota, Encarnacion, Green, Penny, Koyie Hill, Brazoban, and Beltre's dollars
into
Choi, Vasquez, 1/2 a year of Finley, a couple prospects, and money spent on Delgado or a crippled Ordonez, all in about half a year.
Oh, but wait, I forgot about Brent Mayne.
So tell me again why this is a bad deal?
J-Rod
: 12/16/2004 11:09:00 PMwe've already been down this road before. the big unit wanted to go to new york, but arizona said no way, because the yankees farm system has got nothing but food stamps. so, why would the dodgers suddenly think that this same vaunted farm system suddenly has prospects for them?!
fine, you want to get rid of shawn green? ok, i could see your point with that. he's popular in the clubhouse, but they're overpaying him by about 8-10mm per year. fine. but you're also trading you're projected #1 or #2 starter + you're #1 set up man for who!? javier vasquez? the guy who couldn't avoid losing 10 games with a potent yankees offense. plus had an era close to 5.
i really hope this clearing of the clubhouse translates to signing jason varitek and/or carlos beltran. 'cause otherwise, frank mccourt, your honeymoon with dodger fans is over.
: 12/17/2004 09:47:00 AM
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