According to Ken Rosenthal, Eric Bedard to the Mariners is getting very close.
Here are the details:
"Bedard: A trade between the Orioles and Mariners is only one player away
from completion, major-league sources say, but that one player could be
right-hander Chris Tillman, a 19-year-old that the M's would prefer to
retain.
Outfielder Adam Jones would be the centerpiece of the deal for
the Orioles, and left-handed reliever George Sherrill and 17-year-old
shortstop Carlos Triunfel are among the other players under discussion.
The Mariners also have inquired about A's right-hander Joe Blanton, but
the A's would insist upon Jones and the Mariners might not be willing to
trade their top position prospect within the division."
Someone please tell me that the Tribe couldn't afford to give up 3-4 prospects for one of the best young and available pitchers in all of baseball! Especially with so much uncertainty regarding C.C.!
I'll tell you what. Adam Miller had better turn out to be a freakin' STUD! This guy hasn't made it through an entire season in three years and he may be the x-factor preventing Danny Haren, Eric Bedard, perhaps Alex Rios from being Indians.
Of course this is not Miller's fault. It is this overvaluing of our own minor leaguers by Shapiro and Co. that is driving me crazy. We got it Mark... Hart made mistakes with Sexton, Giles, and Casey. But your gunshy reaction to such mistakes has indirectly lost us Phillips, Guthrie, and perhaps Marte as options run out.
How about meeting halfway and actually making a move when the player coming in return is a proven, cheap, and useful player (ie. Haren, Bedard, Rios)!?
2008 has regression written all over it for the Tribe thus far.
I cannot even watch the Cavs right now....please don't let it be similar for our Tribe.
Cheers!
2 comments:
Perhaps it is not the overvaluing of our own prospects by the Indians, but the undervaluing of our prospects by other teams.
It takes two teams to make a trade, and perhaps the prospects we have do not fit what the Orioles want, or the Orioles want guys like Asdrubal Cabrera and Franklin Gutierrez, whose loss would weaken the Tribe significantly.
Woodsmeister,
You make an interesting point. However it is a point that depresses me a bit more. That is to say, if other teams are undervaluing our prospects, couldn't that also be interpreted as simply, the overall quality of our farm is simply average at best?
Of course there is perhaps nothing more difficult in professional sports than getting an accuratre read on young baseball players. That said, it sure seems that many have been giving Mark Shapiro many kudos for 'rebuilding' our minor league system and we usually have quite a few names on the Baseball America/Baseball Prospectus top prospects lists.
The bottom line is this. It is quite clear that my frustration is apparent regarding our relatively quite off season thus far. Call me crazy, but in both late July as well as December, it sure seems like good, solid players are being moved for unproven, young talent. I don't know how many times I've gone, they aquired HIM for THEM?!?!
We can't match that?
Again, you do make a good point. And surely there have been some cases where our package wasn't as good as another package.
I'm just watching the Cavs do the stand pat approach to getting better. Hoping for another years experience and some maturity to lead to a better product. I know, I know....apples and oranges.
But goodness gracious, Cleveland sports sure have a way of sticking together when it comes to falling short.
Thanks for the email!
Cheers!
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