It's hard to imagine creating a gaping hole in our team for half a season for anyone.  I usually frown on the idea of untoucables, but Weeks, Fielder, Hardy, Hart, and Hall (and Gallardo) are pretty much there.

Fielder for Buehrle? Yeah, that works. Absurd rumours to say the least.

I can't see how Buehrle would be an upgrade at all if the team subtracted Braun or Gallardo. The only way it could even possibly work, and it still would be a loss for the Brewers, is if it involved Bush or Vargas, a starter who would presumably be appealing to the White Sox because they would have them under control for a few more years, and someone like Tony Gwynn or Laynce Nix.

Who knows what "kicked the tires" means anyway? Maybe it was just a call to exchange pleasantries and see what the market for each team's players was like.

"you can never have too much pitching" and all that, but pitching really isn't in need of an upgrade*. And for that price?! Seriously, which Chicago-area sports talk radio show did Rosenthal pick that up from?

* For all the griping about the back end of both the rotation and the bullpen, everyone's pretty serviceable, really. And heck, if we have to have some unexpected moves - when Capuano comes back and Bush or Vargas moves to relief, get rid of both Capellan and Spurling, and call up Grant Balfour who just had a three-inning save with 6 (!) strikeouts tonight. Now sporting this combined Huntsville/Nashville line: 36.1 IP, 1.98 ERA (with no UER, to boot), 57 K (14.1/9), 12 BB, .165 AVG against.

is not much reliable than mlb trade rumors .com they both trade in wild unfounded speculation.

just the fact that ryan braun is mentioned is laughable.

:)

here's the story directly:
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/6955650

But it would be pretty cool to see the brewers go out and get THE available pitcher at the deadline.

I'll bet the White Sox would take TGjr...

is there young pitching.

Vargas and Bush are possibilities, but if I were another team, I would target Carlos V.  or Will Inman.

The team that gets Buehrle will be disappointed, and it would be extremely silly for the Brewers to get him.

about Rosenthal's column is that it pointed out something that I didn't know (though maybe others here did):

Dave Bush was a closer at Wake Forest.

It's going to be a long time before I'd be OK with Turnblownsave closing for us again, and I wouldn't want to pony up the bucks for CoCo after this season.  We're going to have closer tryouts, and I'm curious as to how Dave Bush would do.  (Especially given that in many of his starts, he does well for 5 innings or so and then tires.)

I'm sure many of you frequent MLB Trade Rumors anyway and have already seen this, but just incase, it doesn't look like Buehrle's going anywhere after all.

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/444903,CST-SPT-mark27.article