MLBTR: Trade Market for Starting Pitchers

Hat tip to Al, who posted a link to MLBTR's Trade Market for Starting Pitchers. It's worth going through, just to see the two Brewers starters who made the list. It's also worth noting that there are FIVE Detroit Tigers on the list. You'll recall that Doug Melvin did not bother calling Detroit to gauge their interest in JJ Hardy because there was no fit to be had.

4 months ago roguejim 3 comments 0 recs |

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Well, cursorily

Jackson couldn’t be had for Hardy, unless you packaged Hardy with other prospects – something that doesn’t make sense for the Brewers to do for a probably overvalued pitcher like Jackson.

Verlander couldn’t be had for Hardy or even a package centered around Hardy, and probably isn’t actually on the trading block at all anyways.

Robertson/Willis/Bonderman are all extremely expensive and mediocre.

Most of that list seems more like a listing of awful pitching contracts, I’m not sure how that translates into being on the “trade market”

Ryan Braun: He loves it. *Secretly, I am Carlos Gomez*

by SRB on Nov 12, 2009 6:38 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I guess

that although a 1-for-1 deal might not be likely, it still remains that we have an extra shortstop, which the Kitties need. Also, one baseball Web site that I have reasonable faith in suggests that the entire rotation could be had in a trade, and we happen to need starting pitching.

Even if an equal swap isn’t readily apparent, it strikes me as more and more ridiculous that DM didn’t feel a simple phone call to Detroit was warranted.

At any rate, Suppan for any of Willis, Bonderman, or Robertson would be an improvement. (Assuming you couldn’t trade Suppan within the division, of course, which would be ideal.) Boy, how did the Tigers get stuck with those contracts…

"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"

by roguejim on Nov 13, 2009 4:06 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

This is the biggest sticking point with me.

Why not call around? He didn’t even KNOW what the Tigers were asking for Jackson. Now, presumably, he does. I wonder if Dombrowski was like “if you’d have called us before you got rid of that shortstop, we’d have been a lot happier.” J.J. Hardy and Adam Everett’s 2009 numbers are pretty similar—Everett marginally better offensively. I’ll bet they’d rather gamble on Hardy having an upward correction this year than 34 year old Everett learning how to hit.

Every person who loves the Hardy for Gomez deal, when confronted with “he didn’t even call Detroit” says “you’re an idiot for thinking they would have done Hardy for Jackson.” Since when did anyone say that’s what would have gone down, though? I sure can’t remember seeing that anywhere.

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by Charlie Marlow on Nov 13, 2009 7:38 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs