So what would NYY have to give up to get Chavy
by SwisherFan33 on Mar 5, 2009 1:03 PM PST
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We love him...we hate his injuries. However, thanks to A-Roid getting a cyst (which I am sure has no relation to his steroid use...chortle laugh), the Spankees need a 3rd basemen and quick. Buster Olney in his infinite wisdom tossed out three names: Garret Atkins, Andy Marte, and Eric Chavez.
So, putting it out to you fellow A's fans, what would it take to give up Chavy?
I would love to get Swisher back for RF and try to get Hughes for our current rotation and give up Chavy and Mazzaro. It is obvious that Hughes has been coveted in the past, but I think those days are gone. Plus desperation makes clubs (especially the Yankees) do strange things. You help the rotation, add Swisher to shore up a solid OF, and then wonder who in the hell you can trade for to get a 3rd basemen. The Yankees might try to give Nady instead of Swisher, but neither the Indians or the Rockies would want Nady so it is not like they can deal him to another club instead. The Yankees would also get Mazzaro who is more of a prosepct than Hughes, but can help them in a year when they really need it.
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Doesn't make a lot of sense
I can’t see why the A’s would want Swisher (I love Swisher, but the A’s have no place for him to play currently), and I can’t see giving up Mazzaro AND Chavez to get Hughes. Also, if the Yankers want a quick answer, than Chavez probably isn’t it, as he has yet to play 3B in a spring game.
IF (and that is a big if) the Yankees wanted him, I think BB would get something like Ian Kennedy + C/C- prospect, at most.
by el generico on Mar 5, 2009 1:08 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I would've gotten away with it to if it wasn't for you meddling kids and that nosy dog!!!
You caught me…I am just trying to bring my man-crush Swish back to the bay. =)
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by SwisherFan33 on Mar 5, 2009 1:11 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Couldn"t Chavez block that deal?
And do you really think he’d want to be a bench player once ARod returns?
by LowcountryJoe on Mar 5, 2009 1:17 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
yes, the Yankees was one of the clubs that he designated
as a club to which he can’t be traded without his consent
by OaklandSi on Mar 5, 2009 2:40 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I distinctly recall (IIRC, that is) grover telling me that his 10/5 status also...
…alows him to veto trades.
by LowcountryJoe on Mar 5, 2009 6:25 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
grover's been blogging for 10 years? Wow.
And here I was all set to trade him to Lookout Landing.
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by Nico on Mar 5, 2009 6:42 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
well his CPP's% are off the charts so make sure you get a good package for him!
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by mrod on Mar 5, 2009 7:54 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh I got a good package all right.
Anyway, back to the talk of trading grover…
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by Nico on Mar 5, 2009 7:56 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Can we get Sickels?
Sorry Grover, but i likes me some sickels.
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by Rebuilding Season on Mar 6, 2009 2:12 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
i’d prefer nady (norcal guy) but even then no chance….and we dont need more young arms
by tafkasam on Mar 5, 2009 1:36 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
You can never have enough young arms.
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by mikev on Mar 5, 2009 1:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
What could the Yankees possibly give
that would make up for the giant hole that would be left in my heart?
by oblique on Mar 5, 2009 1:40 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
AAwwwww.
Hallmark worthy!
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by somebodyelse on Mar 6, 2009 9:22 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Doesn't really make sense for either team
If the A’s were to trade Chavez, Nomar would become the A’s starting 3b. That would completely undermine the A’s trying to compete this year. The Yankees would be trading for a often injured, unproven 3b who becomes a backup in a month and would cost them 25 million. Neither team would do the deal unless one team completely screwed the other. So no deal will occur.
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by vignette17 on Mar 5, 2009 1:41 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Crosby for Swisher
straight up and call it a day.
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by SoCal As Fan on Mar 5, 2009 1:42 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
surely you jest
Someone has to play 3rd this year; Swisher isnt even a guarantee to start on this team, partic. if Buck has a good spring. He’d be alternating with Giambi at 1st. Makes no sense— and the Yankees can ride out ARod being gone for a couple of months.
by windyfelix on Mar 5, 2009 1:49 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I was jesting
and dont call me Shirley. :)
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by SoCal As Fan on Mar 5, 2009 1:55 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Crosby for Swisher's beard
Since he won’t be using it with the Yanks…
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by JLeverenz on Mar 5, 2009 3:21 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Can Swish play 3rd?
Otherwise, no.
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by DyeLongJustice on Mar 5, 2009 1:50 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
if swisher could play 3b, why would the yankees trade him for crosby?
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by xbhaskarx on Mar 5, 2009 4:33 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Cashman would have to be on crack to trade for Chavez.
You do realize has two years remaining on his contract in which he is owed a total of 23 mill? Unfortunate for the Yanks that this news came out when it did, Nomar would have been a great fit for them.
by joeiz on Mar 5, 2009 1:50 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
ok
then lets trade Nomar. how about nomar for ian kennedy?
by RayJEdd on Mar 5, 2009 2:10 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Doesn't work unless he agrees to it
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by PaulThomas on Mar 5, 2009 2:13 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Yep to that
Even Cabrera would have made a good stopgap at the price he was getting, and they’re down to— what— their 4th round pick that they’d be giving up anyway? Not exactly a king’s ransom.
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by PaulThomas on Mar 5, 2009 2:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
neither is cody
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by xbhaskarx on Mar 5, 2009 4:34 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Well, now Alex is "playing through it"
Bring back Hammer.
by OaktownPower on Mar 5, 2009 2:05 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
A-Rod being out for 5-6 weeks does not make it an emergency on the Yankees' part.
Especially at the beginning of the season.
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by UncleLeo on Mar 5, 2009 2:16 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
They placed third last year in the AL East
and SHOULD have placed fourth. I’d say it’s an emergency to lose your best hitter the first couple months of the season. The Yankees need all the help they can get.
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by VORP is too nerdy on Mar 5, 2009 2:38 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
If A-rod opts for surgery he is out 4 months...
…that would absolutely require a trade.
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by SwisherFan33 on Mar 5, 2009 2:26 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I heard 10 weeks was the prognosis
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by mrod on Mar 5, 2009 3:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
10 weeks out for his surgery to remove the cyst
if he opts for surgery to repair the labrum he’s out for 4 months.
The Yankees may be hoping he can make it through the season without surgery. That’s what Boston tried to do with Lowell last season, but he didn’t make it through.
by OaklandSi on Mar 5, 2009 3:52 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
oh wow! that seriously impacts the Yankees' season for sure...
Yes!!!!!
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by mrod on Mar 5, 2009 4:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Let's trade them
Hanrahan and tell them he’ll be the next Scott Brosius.
by sslinger on Mar 5, 2009 2:34 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH....
Seriously?
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by brenarlo on Mar 5, 2009 2:37 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
MLB trade rumors reports that A-Rod has a torn labrum in his hip
by OaklandSi on Mar 5, 2009 2:41 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
not a Cyst?
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by Zonis on Mar 5, 2009 2:49 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
in addition to the cyst
here’s the actual article
by OaklandSi on Mar 5, 2009 2:54 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Hey - you promised the cyst and the article,
but all I see is the article.
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by Nico on Mar 5, 2009 5:36 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I tried, but they removed it too quickly
by OaklandSi on Mar 5, 2009 5:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
He does have good health care
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by Nico on Mar 5, 2009 5:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Lets just give them Crosby
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by Zonis on Mar 5, 2009 2:49 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
seriously
maybe we could get a bag of candy or something, that would be f ’n great.
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by Buck Turgidson on Mar 5, 2009 6:27 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Trade the Yankees...
Hannahan. He can be their modern day Scott Brosius.
by Colorado Fan on Mar 5, 2009 2:53 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
BOO!
Keep Chavez, screw the Yankees.
I have no stats or facts to back me up, I just like Chavy.
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by micdog2001 on Mar 5, 2009 3:11 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
But if you wanted to "screw the Yankees"
wouldn’t you want to send them Chavvy?!
Just kiddin’ … not really.
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by Vacafan on Mar 5, 2009 4:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
No you'd want to send them Crosby.
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by DMOAS on Mar 5, 2009 4:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
although . . . Crosby for cash?
Maybe the A’s could trade Crosby if the Yanks pay his whole salary? I know Crosby said he doesn’t want to play 3rd but maybe he would to be on the Yankees? It would be smart of him to branch out to a utility role.
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by micdog2001 on Mar 5, 2009 3:20 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Crosby would be a career sub-.700 OPS hitter
playing a position he has never played before. Why would the Yankees think that was a good solution?
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by Nico on Mar 5, 2009 5:37 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
true
maybe Billy Beane could use some magic or something to hypnotize Cashmen into thinking Crosby was a great 3rd basemen?
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by micdog2001 on Mar 5, 2009 6:31 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
whatever they want
for Phil Hughes or Ian Kennedy outside of SMAC
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by closetasfan on Mar 5, 2009 3:26 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
So...Ryan Sweeney for Ian Kennedy?
Kurt Suzuki for Ian Kennedy? Michael Ynoa for Ian Kennedy?
I don’t theeeeeenk so.
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by Nico on Mar 5, 2009 5:40 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I agree...
Ian Kennedy is something we have enough of, because at the end of the day he is Dana Eveland and Dallas Braden (and Greg Smith whome we got rid of). He is a 4th starter who might develop into a 3rd starter someday. Hughes on the other hand might be something very special, and he allows us to keep MAC (or CAM) in the minors till September.
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by SwisherFan33 on Mar 5, 2009 7:23 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
We should get Kennedy
create an AAAA league
win it every year
profit
Clear its radiance shine...
by ATarHeel on Mar 5, 2009 7:28 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
the oakland AAAA's
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by alea iacta est on Mar 6, 2009 10:26 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
You are massivly overvaluting Swisher
Chavy is worth Swish straight up, and if we are throwing in Mazzaro I want someone like Colby Ramus back. (Which means he doesn’t go the the Yankees anyway)
You do not trade a 96mph future mid of the rotation starter for a overhyped hack like Hughes—EVER!
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by Threepwood XX on Mar 5, 2009 3:33 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Not even on Wednesday?
I'm here to talk about the past.
by 67MARQUEZ on Mar 5, 2009 3:36 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Wednesday has special rules.
Being “hump” day, what you are allowed to do on Wed. is entirely based on the amount of alcohol you consume to get over said “hump.”
Sometimes life will strike you out on a curve ball and the only choice you have is to flip off the umpire and walk to first base anyway.
by Threepwood XX on Mar 5, 2009 4:00 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
+1 for the comment about Hughes
but you think Swisher=Crosby?
Swisher’s OPS+ in each full season is 101,125,127, 92 and he has hit at least 21 HR in each of those seasons. Plus he can play 1st and all 3 outfield positions. And of course his great personality and facial hair have to count for something right?
Crosby’s OPS+ in each full season, 93,111 (in only 333 ABs), 67, 68, 76 and he only has hit double digit HRs once. Plus he is bald and thinks he should be a starter and refuses to try other positions. (no offense Bobby C but it’s true, and I’m going bald too)
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by micdog2001 on Mar 5, 2009 3:48 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Wait...
Are you talking about Crosby or Chavy? I was talking about Chavy, and even then I’d only trade the injured version of Chavy for Swish, not the good (pre ‘07) version. If Chavy really can prove he turned a corner then he’s worth more then Swish.
Swish is a good hitter, but the fact that he can’t play a premium position makes it hard to want to trade for him when we could wait a year and get players like Carter and Doolittle. They would have just as good or better numbers, and Doolittle is a better defender at first then Swish.
Sometimes life will strike you out on a curve ball and the only choice you have is to flip off the umpire and walk to first base anyway.
by Threepwood XX on Mar 5, 2009 3:58 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
dude
My bad, all that work for nothing. MAN!, AN needs a delete button.
I had Crosby on the brain.
>goes and hides in the corner and trys to forget this happened<
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by micdog2001 on Mar 5, 2009 4:04 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I'd love an edit button myself.
Sometimes life will strike you out on a curve ball and the only choice you have is to flip off the umpire and walk to first base anyway.
by Threepwood XX on Mar 5, 2009 4:05 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Having no "delete" button
Makes AN more fun.
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by somebodyelse on Mar 6, 2009 9:28 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
yeah, but not for people like me :-)
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by micdog2001 on Mar 7, 2009 12:43 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Nor for people like ve.
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by Nico on Mar 7, 2009 9:32 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
There's a certain charm in
not being able to erase your own stupid comments. You just have to live with it and take your punishment. I speak from experience.
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by somebodyelse on Mar 7, 2009 7:15 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
That is completely
ridculous rediculous ridculouse spot on.
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by Nico on Mar 7, 2009 9:44 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Chavez
I’d trade Chavy for Swisher in a New York minute. Chavy has not shown any ability to stay healthy recently and is basically a sunk cost at the moment, unless you believe his annual spring hype about how good he feels, in which I have a timeshare you might be interested in.
by DeJay on Mar 6, 2009 7:46 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Lol, ok
So, Joba for Crosby, straight up? Does that sound about fair to you?
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by PaulThomas on Mar 5, 2009 5:31 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
especially on Wenesday!
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by mrod on Mar 5, 2009 3:47 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Chavez won't play everyday
he gets paid 10 million to bat 5ht or 6th in the lineup, his defense will not improve thanks to injuries. I say we add something else other than Chavez and we get rid of him.
I like the guy, as much as I liked Zito, and Harden and Byrnes. But we all know how this player-fan love works with the A’s
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by ATarHeel on Mar 5, 2009 3:50 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
How about this doozy,
Chavez and Holliday to Yankees
Swisher, Jeter, Hughes to A’s.
Jeter and can play third for us, Swish can replace Holliday (sort of) and we get Hughes to add to our SP depth.
Yanks can push Arod back to short, keep Chavvy at third, and have Holliday to boot. That lineup would be potent.
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by Degolas on Mar 5, 2009 3:51 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Jeter is no longer as good as Yankee's fans delude themselves into thinking he is.
And evidently we are only allowed to trade for Hughes on Wednesday, and even then only if we are really, really drunk.
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by Threepwood XX on Mar 5, 2009 4:03 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Are you a Yankees fan Degolas?
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by micdog2001 on Mar 5, 2009 4:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Negatory
I’m saddened that something I wrote led another person to think I may like the Yankees.
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by Degolas on Mar 5, 2009 4:11 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
sorry
I guess I really don’t like Jeter and have always thought he was overratted. I will no longer doubt your A’s fandom. Besides, something I wrote made someone think I was a moron and couldn’t read.
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by micdog2001 on Mar 5, 2009 4:14 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Actually I might do that if it was ARod instead of Jeter
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by vignette17 on Mar 5, 2009 5:59 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
This is the kind of trade that happens in fantasy baseball, but not in real baseball...
… dealing three MLB-level players for two ML-level players? That kind of deal almost never happens (although it would be nice if it did happen more often). In addition, Yankees’ fans would go apeshit if they dealt Jeter. Not happening.
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by Uncle Charlie on Mar 6, 2009 12:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
No way on Mazzaro
He would be the best player in that package. Mazzaro is better than Hughes wait and see. I would trade the yank Hannahan for a low prospect or Crosby just to free up the money.
by Arcman on Mar 5, 2009 4:03 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I say we trade them two months of Chavez
for five of their wins.
straight up.
You can do that in the mlb, right? I mean, it is the Yanks, they can get away with most anything
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by alea iacta est on Mar 5, 2009 4:07 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
MLB needs to figure out how to do this
Bob Geren and Ken Macha both enjoy jai lai.
by CarGon's Jock on Mar 5, 2009 4:45 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
At which point the Yankees & Red Sox
would be in the play offs every year after paying off every team in the Majors and coasting to 500 win seasons.
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by DMOAS on Mar 5, 2009 4:58 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
and then contest the superbowl together
cause, yknow, if you’re good enough to win 500 games, then you should be allowed to have two teams from the AL
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by alea iacta est on Mar 6, 2009 10:02 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
If the Yankees wanted to overpay and give up a serious prospect or two
Then I would trade him. Garciaparra, Hannahan, Baisley, Chen, Dillon would probably make a passable 3rd baseman. Certainly they don’t have the potential of a healthy Chavez, but it wouldn’t be godawful.
But again, only if the Yankees were seriously going to overpay. And Chavez would probably block that trade, seeing as as he’ll be a backup a month or two into the season. Olney was probably just throwing at names that are available or on teams where players are always available, like Oakland. Can’t see this trade actually happening.
by NateHST on Mar 5, 2009 4:22 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
that would be funny/weird if the A's traded Nomar
since he just signed and was thinking A’s or retirement. of course the Yankees weren’t looking for a 3rd basemen whe Nomar signed.
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by micdog2001 on Mar 5, 2009 4:25 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I was going to say "sobriety"
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by Nico on Mar 5, 2009 6:00 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Man what Beane could do with an extra 11 million
Let’s get rid of Chavy
Clear its radiance shine...
by ATarHeel on Mar 5, 2009 6:18 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Then maybe we could get what we would need:
A 3Bman!
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by Nico on Mar 5, 2009 6:22 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Exactly, because Chavy is not the answer
You said it yourself, he needs to be rested in order to play the whole season, and yet we have no guarantees at all that he will be one fourth of the player he was when he signed his big ass contract.
Not that it matters now anyways, as vignette17 said, its too damn late to get rid of him, we would have to play Hannahan and Nomar is like a cheap/worse version of Chavy
Clear its radiance shine...
by ATarHeel on Mar 5, 2009 7:20 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I don't know if just covering Chavvy's salary is enough
If a guy like Russell Branyan was available, I’d do the deal. But to compete this year, the A’s need more than a Nomar/Hannahan platoon at 3b. 11 million isn’t all the A’s would get, they’d also have nothing at 3b. This late in the offseason there’s not really any FAs to use the 11 mil on and no 3b makes the A’s not a playoff team. Which means trading Holliday becomes the next logical step. Cabrera nor Giambi nor Nomar nor Springer really make sense either if that’s the case. Trading Chavvy basically means the A’s should go back to full on rebuilding.
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by vignette17 on Mar 5, 2009 6:27 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Chavyy stays and that's final!
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by mrod on Mar 5, 2009 8:00 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Agreed!
Let the Yankees be horrible and fall way behind the Red Sucks and Rays and Orioles. I love this! Chavvy stays!
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by A'sfansince1970 on Mar 5, 2009 8:19 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Chavvy's health has been too precarious the last few years...
for this kind of silly speculation. Dream on…
by IM4Oakgal on Mar 5, 2009 9:58 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Fun speculation time!
Isn’t it funny that ARod is now too hurt to play right before the WBC – and presumably right before the mandatory Olympic-standard drug testing. Hmmm….
by thejd44 on Mar 5, 2009 10:32 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
If I were running the Yankees...
I’d get KC on the phone and try to get Mark Teahen. He was a decent third baseman before Alex Gordan took his job and it was recent enough that he should still be able to do the job.. Also, his versatility would make him a good player to have on the bench after A-Rod returns.
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by Monday Fan on Mar 6, 2009 1:26 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
"Gordon"
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by Monday Fan on Mar 6, 2009 1:27 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Good idea
… Teahan would be a good option because of the ability to slide into a reserve role once Pay$Rod returns. In that regard, he’s a better option for the Jankees than Chavez or Atkins, neither of whom should be in a reserve role.
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by Uncle Charlie on Mar 6, 2009 12:52 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I'd take A-Rod back in the deal
And throw in Crosby.
But the Yankees have to pay all three salaries.
Sound fair?
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by eastcoasta'sfan on Mar 6, 2009 7:52 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I would love to get Swish back
As long as he is still on Roids
by Athletic on Mar 6, 2009 12:45 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Swish ain't on roids
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