2012 Trade Deadline Thread

Wo1verine · Post #121 » by **Wo1verine** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:14 pm

The Yankees acquired third baseman Casey McGehee from the Pirates for reliever Chad Qualls, tweets Joel Sherman of the New York Post.

This trade got announced after 4pm

BigLeagueChew · Post #122 » by **BigLeagueChew** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:14 pm

Yankees get McGehee

Post #123 » by **Morris_Shatford** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:15 pm

At least now we can start looking forward to the winter meetings.

Wo1verine · Post #124 » by **Wo1verine** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:17 pm

Morris_Shatford wrote:At least now we can start looking forward to the winter meetings.

It's too bad we can't fast forward this season, ha

Strav · Post #125 » by **Strav** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:21 pm

Wo1verine wrote:
Morris_Shatford wrote:At least now we can start looking forward to the winter meetings.

It's too bad we can't fast forward this season, ha

.500 ball, a couple of games out of the Wild Card doesn't excite you enough then I take it. WTF?

Wo1verine · Post #126 » by **Wo1verine** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:29 pm

Strav wrote:
Wo1verine wrote:
Morris_Shatford wrote:At least now we can start looking forward to the winter meetings.

It's too bad we can't fast forward this season, ha

.500 ball, a couple of games out of the Wild Card doesn't excite you enough then I take it. WTF?

Nope! It doesn't not when we got to jump 5 teams to get a spot :lol:

perhaps if we would have made some meaningful moves, i'd get a little excited!

Wo1verine · Post #127 » by **Wo1verine** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:30 pm

The Indians acquired first baseman/left fielder Lars Anderson from the Red Sox, tweets WEEI's Alex Speier.

Another trade that has just been reported!

diddykong · Post #128 » by **diddykong** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:39 pm

Wo1verine wrote:
The Indians acquired first baseman/left fielder Lars Anderson from the Red Sox, tweets WEEI's Alex Speier.

Another trade that has just been reported!

trades like this can be easily be done after today anyway.

satyr9 · Post #129 » by **satyr9** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:57 pm

Here's something I didn't know:

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/07/pirates-acquire-gaby-sanchez.html wrote:The Pirates have acquired first baseman Gaby Sanchez from the Marlins for outfielder Gorkys Hernandez and a competitive balance pick, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports.

You can trade those "we make no money" picks? Why on earth would you be able to trade those and not other picks? Aren't those picks there to help small market teams build stronger farm systems? That's 100% absolutely ridiculously stupendously moronic if those are the only tradeable picks.

joshgc · Post #130 » by **joshgc** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:57 pm

AA will be on the fan590 at 6.

rarefind · Post #131 » by **rarefind** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:02 pm

not sure why we traded away our lf to for a reliever when we could have traded escobar for a.j. griffin and at least get by for the rest of the year with hech and omar.

wazabifuzz · Post #132 » by **wazabifuzz** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:24 pm

Sounds like AA is done trading ... for now, maybe August trade ?

diddykong · Post #133 » by **diddykong** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:50 pm

wazabifuzz wrote:Sounds like AA is done trading ... for now, maybe August trade ?

may be a insignificant because it has go to waivers. i hope we ship KJ's ass.

Holmes · Post #134 » by **Holmes** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:58 pm

I have never seen such an absence of direction like the Jays.

Al_Oliver · Post #135 » by **Al_Oliver** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:00 pm

diddykong wrote:
wazabifuzz wrote:Sounds like AA is done trading ... for now, maybe August trade ?

may be a insignificant because it has go to waivers. i hope we ship KJ's ass.

It would be fitting, seeing as we acquired him last August

Post #136 » by **Schad** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:13 pm

satyr9 wrote:Here's something I didn't know:

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/07/pirates-acquire-gaby-sanchez.html wrote:The Pirates have acquired first baseman Gaby Sanchez from the Marlins for outfielder Gorkys Hernandez and a competitive balance pick, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports.

You can trade those "we make no money" picks? Why on earth would you be able to trade those and not other picks? Aren't those picks there to help small market teams build stronger farm systems? That's 100% absolutely ridiculously stupendously moronic if those are the only tradeable picks.

Yeah; the Tigers already traded theirs. The fact that a team with a $133m payroll got a draft pick to redress competitive balance issues pushes it up to 127% absolutely ridiculously stupendously moronic, I believe.

dagger · Post #137 » by **dagger** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:17 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:
satyr9 wrote:Here's something I didn't know:

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/07/pirates-acquire-gaby-sanchez.html wrote:The Pirates have acquired first baseman Gaby Sanchez from the Marlins for outfielder Gorkys Hernandez and a competitive balance pick, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports.

You can trade those "we make no money" picks? Why on earth would you be able to trade those and not other picks? Aren't those picks there to help small market teams build stronger farm systems? That's 100% absolutely ridiculously stupendously moronic if those are the only tradeable picks.

Yeah; the Tigers already traded theirs. The fact that a team with a $133m payroll got a draft pick to redress competitive balance issues pushes it up to 127% absolutely ridiculously stupendously moronic, I believe.

It's the inverse of having a big market owner with one of the smallest payrolls in baseball.

Post #138 » by **Morris_Shatford** » Wed Aug 1, 2012 1:45 pm

Wo1verine wrote:
Strav wrote:.500 ball, a couple of games out of the Wild Card doesn't excite you enough then I take it. WTF?

Nope! It doesn't not when we got to jump 5 teams to get a spot perhaps if we would have made some meaningful moves, i'd get a little excited!

Took the words out of my mouth.
The remainder of this season will likely be us seeing if some of our minor leaguers look like major leaguers given opportunities.

Just like I said last year at this time,
Maybe next year.

Al_Oliver · Post #139 » by **Al_Oliver** » Wed Aug 1, 2012 10:47 pm

Jays got a B- on their trades

Toronto Blue Jays
Notable additions: LHP J.A. Happ, RHPs Steve Delabar, Brad Lincoln, David Carpenter, Brandon Lyon
Notable losses: OFs Travis Snider, Eric Thames, Ben Francisco, RHP Francisco Cordero

Analysis: Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos adds more quality arms to the major league club as he tries to build the depth necessary at the upper levels to withstand injuries. Lincoln and Delabar both have swing-and-miss stuff, and the Blue Jays control them for several more years.

http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/the-gms ... st?id=4705

satyr9 · Post #140 » by **satyr9** » Thu Aug 2, 2012 12:02 pm

WT report that Soriano rejected a trade to the Giants makes me giggle. Imagine being Epstein in that situation. Finally having enough of a year that someone will eat at least part of his salary, you get it all sorted, and then Soriano still has the leverage to say no I wanna play somewhere else.

Trade restrictions of any kind need to be kept to below average salaries (really I'd just abolish them, but I don't see that either). If you want to control where you live, then you should accept you cannot be a major hindrance economically if you regress. At the very least least to keep no trade clause you need to meet performance levels, just something where you don't end up with a useless player making superstar money who also has all the control over trade activity; that's just insane.