Thursday Trade Deadline Open Thread

Elliott adds that the Reds “met last night to decide to come up with a package to land third baseman Scott Rolen.”

I think this makes me sad.

Nooooooooo. Bring back Bubba Crosby. Heck, bring back Kevin Thompson or Bronson Sardinha. But no on C-Pat!

but if they go and get Rolen and do nothing else, I’ll quit all of this fanboy shit for the season. No money to the ballpark, no merch, nothing. I’ve had it with these stupid assholes.

Thanks to our dedicated, hot-stove obsessed readers, MLBTR set a personal traffic record yesterday with over 1.3 million pageviews.

that’s a lot…

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/springfield-oh-sports/cincinnati-reds/trade-rumors-swirling-around-harang-rolen-225938.html

Harang hopes the Reds don’t rip up the roster because, “We’re not out of it. We can make up two or three games in three days. We lost six in a row on the road and lost only two games. And we have enough games against teams in our division that we can shift things around in one weekend.”

Of possible trades, manager Dusty Baker said, “We’ve been inquiring and search, but everybody wants our top, top guys. I’d hate to be in the AL East because both Boston and New York load up on you late.”

He’s short term and if we get him we also get a true Veteran WS guy. It won’t hurt to have a guy like that in the clubhouse to offer some leadership.

EdE is what he is – a sometimes power hitter and sometimes decent defender…I hope that Todd Frazier keeps developing because we him for 2010.

Wow didn’t think that the springfield News-Sun would still be around..there are only about 1250 literate people in Springfield and that’s including the kids at Wittenberg.

The Yankees are looking at Patterson…perhaps they’d be interested in Taveras! He’s fast!

It’s gone from slow boil to kettle whistle. I think I’ll go to my last game of the season today. Walk over with the kiddies in the stroller just to yell at Dusty and up at the mgmt boxes. There will be a lot of “I know we’re not supposed to say those words, but Pops is fucking pissed. Earmuffs, little men. I’m finna tear into their asses.” I need the catharsis.

Theyre not doing to DL him are they? I know they’re up against it with three catchers going down, but have some pride yeah? Paul Janish would really become the poster boy for this surreal season if he had to spell Tatum. The fact that you can’t PH for him his bad enough.

I guess Dusty is sticking to the tried and true “Always have at least two guys who will not get on base in your lineup.” He likes “negative space.” He’s a very aesthetically-driven manager.

to see who gets Victor Martinez. V-Mart shouldn’t catch more than 3 or 4 days a week, probably is ideal in the AL so he can DH some, and he can play a decent 1B.

This is way outside the box, but I think he would be a great guy to go with Hanigan next year, at 7.5 Mil. Move Votto to LF, sign a veteran 1B on a 1 year deal and go with this:

Taveras/Stubbs CF
Phillips 2B
Votto LF
Martinez C
Encarnacion or Rolen(haha) 3B
Bruce
1st Baseman
SS
Pitcher

Hanigan can start 3-4 games a week, then V-Mart plays 1st. Get it done, Walt.

I thoroughly enjoyed the post—game show. Well done, gents. Fun having the proverbial veil lifted on the mods.

Question for thevole: Do you ever call in to The Best Show on WFMU?

But, there was some quote from an NL unnamed front office guy where he said: the reds are offering everybody, but honestly we wouldn’t want their players or their contracts.

Ouch, we can’t even have a decent fire sale

the phones are ringing off the hook because of this cash for clunkers deal

Some “well-placed people” are whispering that the Cincinnatus Reds are offering all the members of their squad for transfer. But GM Dusty Baker says that their still in the hunt for the ML Central; C’mon, fellas, roll up your sleeves and get to work!!

Talking about how exciting the hit was last night. He sounded very enthusiastic.

It’s really quite amazing that we can take Taveras out of the lineup and yet not improve it.

Ryan Hanigan is better. “He was better before and then had a setback,” Baker said. “We’ll until tomorrow.”

I love it when players that can actually hit are better, but they don’t get to start. Yet Gonzo…..

I’m leaving next Sat at fucking 6:00 AM from Reagan.. that’s going to be fun.

I’ll even bring you a can or two of Skyline. This might be a double post. I can’t tell.

I’m leaving next Sat at fucking 6:00 AM from Reagan.. that’s going to be fun.

I’ll even bring you a can or two of Skyline.

12:20pm: Joe McDonald of the Providence Journal says the Reds and Jays are talking about a Rolen-Yonder Alonso swap. Say what? Alonso, who signed on August 15th of last year, would have to be a player to be named later in the unlikely event he’s dealt.

If they Reds trade Alonso for Rolen…….Holy Jesus………

This “Scott Rolen” guy that everyone is so excited about has a full no trade clause (Cot’s, while a great site, has a crappy search feature; you need to scroll down), which means either (a) he’s not coming, or (b) the Reds are going to have to give him a bunch more money than he’s already owed to come.

Why? Why in the world would any player with half a brain want to join this team if they have a choice? And no – I don’t assume the Reds know what it would take to get Rolen’s OK. The half-assed moves they’ve made over the past couple of years prove to me that Jockety and Baker don’t think things all the way through before they act.

And I was trying to be funny, but as Sarah Palin proved to David Letterman, the joke isn’t funny if you have to explain it.