Dodgers Rent Casey Blake
by Charlie Wilmoth on Jul 26, 2008 3:19 PM EDT
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PrintThe Dodgers have acquired Casey Blake from the Indians for minor leaguers Jonathan Meloan and Carlos Santana. Both the players the Dodgers gave up are pretty interesting. Meloan, who should be a reliever in the bigs, has control issues but has racked up strikeouts like crazy throughout the minors. But the 22-year-old Santana--uh, no relation, I don't think?--could be the real prize here. As a catcher, he appears to be a work in progress, but as a hitter, he's simply going nuts in the Cal League. Yes, it's a hitting-crazy league, but he's posting a .431 OBP there and obviously knows the strike zone pretty well. For the Dodgers, their tandem of Blake DeWitt and Andy LaRoche hadn't really been cutting it at third base, but Blake isn't a great solution. Good trade for the Indians.
Woobie also notices in the comments that the Indians have also acquired Anthony Reyes from the Cards for a minor league reliever. Another nice move--there might still be something there. I would've loved it if the Pirates had acquired Reyes, particularly at this price.
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Indians make another move, too
Anthony Reyes, who won Game 1 of the 2006 World Series for St. Louis, was traded by the Cardinals on Saturday to the Cleveland Indians for minor league pitcher Luis Perdomo.
Maybe that makes
DeWitt or LaRoche (or an OF like Kemp or whoever) expendable enough for a Jack Wilson trade.
Wishing… it’s all we can do now.
The Utah Jazz. The Jazz... duh.
The best NBA team in Utah... no doubts about it!
Playing For Pride. Pirates, Utes, Panthers, and more...
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It's a nice wish...
we want get Laroche or Kemp for Wilson. No way in the world that happens. Jack’s a nice player and solid defender but not worth an elite prospect. I would think that the original rumor of McDonald and Hu would be more than we should expect for Jack. If that offer is ever on the table we should jump on it. With the pieces starting to drop Bay’s value continues to increase. I’m interested to find out what teams will offer for him as the deadline approaches. However, the acquisition of all of these potentially major league ready arms tells me that the Bucs are planning a run at .500 next season so I doubt we say Bay traded unless it’s a can’t refuse offer. We’ll see.
I still would have liked to see us pick up Reyes for a friggin relief pitcher. I think he’s going to get his change of scenery and become an effective pitcher again.
beat me slick
I was writing that I think the Dodgers might part with LaRoche. They wouldn’t have acquired Casey Blake if they believed in LaRoche, nor would they have made him compete with Nomar in spring training or bury him behind Dewitt during the regular season.
Guys...
don’t beat yourselves silly on the Blake deal. He’s a rental. He’s a FA after the season. It just means that LaRoche and Dewitt aren’t ready to be full time THIS year.
I know.
I don’t truly believe the Dodgers would give us any of the youngsters for Jack, no matter how desperate the “analysts” think they are.
I was just, I don’t know… wishing. Because it’d be cool if it did happen.
I’m not stupid enough to believe it until it actually happens.
The Utah Jazz. The Jazz... duh.
The best NBA team in Utah... no doubts about it!
Playing For Pride. Pirates, Utes, Panthers, and more...
Because, in the end, only one team can "win it all".
I'd be more frustrated about not getting Reyes.
He would have been an improvement over just about any starter that we had in the minors prior to last night. And he probably wouldn’t have cost us much.
Yeah
especially when it doesn’t seem like the Indians gave up much (of course, I don’t know much about the prospect they got).
The Utah Jazz. The Jazz... duh.
The best NBA team in Utah... no doubts about it!
Playing For Pride. Pirates, Utes, Panthers, and more...
Because, in the end, only one team can "win it all".
The prospect doesn’t appear to be important. If the Cardinals were just willing to dump Reyes, I’m sure they preferred to keep him out of the division.
by Charlie Wilmoth on Jul 26, 2008 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions
FWIW
USSMariner is reporting that Washburn has been dealt to the Yankees.
The Utah Jazz. The Jazz... duh.
The best NBA team in Utah... no doubts about it!
Playing For Pride. Pirates, Utes, Panthers, and more...
Because, in the end, only one team can "win it all".
Not that it matters here
its a Pirates blog, I know… just yeah.
More of the Yankees buying players.
The Utah Jazz. The Jazz... duh.
The best NBA team in Utah... no doubts about it!
Playing For Pride. Pirates, Utes, Panthers, and more...
Because, in the end, only one team can "win it all".
Interesting take on Tabata vs. Fmart for perspective
Its a year and a half old but I’d thought I’d share the link:
Jack
I think this probably means they will stick with Nomar at SS the rest of the year betting on his health being good. I would like to bet on that.
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