Griffey to the Brewers?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:14 pm
by EastSideBucksFan
Hearing rumblings that Tony Gwynn, Kevin Mench and Matt Wise are going to be packaged for Griffey. Not a done deal, but Melvin is working on it.
Sorry no source, but this is what I hear
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:18 pm
by goirish2107
well, he can hit lefties so it would work with jenks. plus he'd work real well with young talent, seeing as he was at one time one of the most prominent young stars ever. ridding us of mench is good, gwynn eh, i like him, but he ain't gonna play here for a while, and he ain't ready. wise i've been wondering why he hasn't been put in much lately actually. otherwise i'd say that the pen couldn't stand to miss him. so for me (just some guy) this sounds plausible and worth doing to me.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:20 pm
by EastSideBucksFan
Here's where the rumors are stemming from. Everybody is denying everything, but that doesn't always mean that nothing is happening behind the scenes
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ ... 1/1071/SPT
Reds officials on Wednesday refused to comment specifically on an ESPN report published Tuesday that quoted Ken Griffey Jr. as saying he thought the team would try to trade him.
But Griffey's agent said Wednesday the team recently called the outfielder to deny a trade rumor that had the Reds right fielder going to the Milwaukee Brewers.
Brian Goldberg said Reds general manager Wayne Krivsky told him "there was nothing to the Milwaukee rumor that got started, and there was nothing on at this time."
Neither Krivsky nor Reds chief executive officer Bob Castellini would comment on specific trade talk. Castellini made it sound as if the club is not getting ready to turn over the roster.
"We're no more or less active than we were two weeks ago," he said.
But in a column written by Peter Gammons and published Tuesday on ESPN .com, Griffey said he believed the team would try to trade him before the Aug. 31 playoff roster deadline.
"Logically, they (the Reds) are going to get a better deal now than at the end of the season," Griffey told Gammons.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:45 pm
by brewguru
Why would the Reds make that trade?
Wait, this is the same GM that traded Kearns and Lopez for a couple middle relievers last year, so anything's possible.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:19 pm
by goirish2107
they could be high on gwynn, they could need relief help, it could be better than anything they'll get later on
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:30 pm
by MickeyDavis
Griffey is signed through 2009. More than half of the money is deferred and will be paid between 2009 and 2024.
I can't see the Reds making this trade within the division.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:47 pm
by ReasonablySober
I would be absolutely giddy to see Jr. in a Brewer jersey.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:02 pm
by goirish2107
DrugBust wrote:I would be absolutely giddy to see Jr. in a Brewer jersey.
as would i, talk about an attendance boost.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:29 pm
by jerrod
DrugBust wrote:I would be absolutely giddy to see Jr. in a Brewer jersey.
absolutely, my favorite player ever on the brewers
the first pro baseball game i ever went to a couple season ago, he hit a 2 run homerun
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:29 pm
by Siefer
jerrod wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
absolutely, my favorite player ever on the brewers
Same here. Griffey has always been my favorite player growing up. My first jersey was his in Mariners blue.
I'd love to see him here.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:43 pm
by livestrong4ever
I like Griffey but he isn't what this team needs right now. This team needs pitching not anther guy who can hit home runs.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:48 pm
by Ayt
livestrong4ever wrote:I like Griffey but he isn't what this team needs right now. This team needs pitching not anther guy who can hit home runs.
Our offense would move up to the level of sickity sick if we got Griffey and plugged him in in LF.
Maybe the Brewers feel like they can get by in the bullpen with CV pitching so well and Gallardo up. Parra has also been tearing up the minors so he'd be called up to fill the bullpen role.
Coco, Bow, CV, Gallardo, Spurling, Shouse, and Parra isn't bad at all.
I certainly wouldn't miss any of the guys being traded. Plus, we might be able to make a move later to shore up the pen.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:13 pm
by humanrefutation
Eh...i'll believe it when I see it.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:40 pm
by livestrong4ever
[quote="Ayt"][/quote]
I would take my chances on Matt Wise then Parra.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:50 pm
by trwi7
brewguru wrote:Wait, this is the same GM that traded Kearns and Lopez for a couple of hurt middle relievers last year, so anything's possible.
Fixed
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:54 pm
by goirish2107
i guess i'd be surprised to see jenks get even less playing time
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:38 pm
by trwi7
goirish2107 wrote:i guess i'd be surprised to see jenks get even less playing time
Well I think Jenkins would stay with the team for the rest of the year. Honestly if this did happen (which I'm 99% sure it probably won't) I think they'd have either Hart or Griffey play CF, Jenkins in a corner and either Hart or Griffey in the other corner and then when Hall comes back move him to the infield for the rest of the year and let Weeks heal or go to AAA.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:44 pm
by goirish2107
i'm willing to bet hall's injury takes away any chance of rickie going to aaa. later in the year i really doubt he'd get sent down, it would've been now or never.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:47 pm
by trwi7
goirish2107 wrote:i'm willing to bet hall's injury takes away any chance of rickie going to aaa. later in the year i really doubt he'd get sent down, it would've been now or never.
Not really. Now it probably does because that means we'd have a platoon of Graffanino and Counsell again only this time at 2nd base.
Now the AAA season ends about a month before the MLB season so depending on when Hall gets back and if this trade actually went down (again which I doubt) then I could see Weeks going down for some playing time in AAA.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:52 pm
by Buck You
Hart-Rf
Hardy-SS
Braun-3B
Fielder-1B
Griffey-LF/Jenkins sparingly.
Hall-CF
Estrada-C
Weeks-2B
That looks pretty nice.