Going into today, I was pretty confident in saying that either Roy Halladay, Adrian Gonzalez, or Victor Martinez would be in a Boston Red Sox uniform on Saturday. After finding the asking price for both Halladay and Gonzalez too high, the Red Sox settled for plan A-. Late this afternoon the Red Sox acquired All-Star [...]
Today might be one of the best days on the baseball calendar. It’s the July 31st baseball trading deadline. The reason that the trading deadline is so great is because not do you finally see trades happen that have been rumored for awhile, but you see trades happen that seemingly come out of nowhere. That [...]
When talking about the biggest free agent signing busts from this past offseason, we often reference Milton Bradley of the Chicago Cubs or Oliver Perez of the New York Mets. Well, I think it is time we start referencing another player as a free agent bust. That player is the Tampa Bay Rays’ Pat Burrell. When [...]
The Los Angeles Dodgers, while still pursuing a trade for Roy Halladay, switched their attention for a second to the back-end of their bullpen. This afternoon the Dodgers acquired Baltimore Orioles’ closer George Sherrill for minor-leaguers Josh Bell and Steve Johnson. With Jonathan Broxton already firmly entrenched as the Dodgers’ closer, Sherrill becomes the Dodgers’ [...]
You know those deadline deal trades where you go “that’s going to comeback to bite them in the but in a couple of years?” I think that is what every San Francisco Giants fan is going to say in five years when they think about the trade they made yesterday with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Last [...]
When making trades, I have always believed that you should trade an average or below average known for an unknown with potential. That is what the Pittsburgh Pirates did today when they traded SS Jack Wilson and RHP Ian Snell, “average knowns” for C/1B Jeff Clement, SS/2B Ronny Cedeno, and minor-league pitchers Aaron Pribanic, Brett [...]
