Granderson and friends

[haveacigar]

Haha, yeah I am totally lost when it comes to a lot of NL west coast teams. I did a little research and found out a little more about their prospects. Here is rough list of the following:
Buster Posey (Catcher)
Madison Bumgarner (P)
Tim Alderson (P)
Angel Villalona (1B)
Conor Gillaspie (3B)
Nick Noonan (2B)
Henry Sosa (P)

The first two are definately the Giant's biggest prospects and look to be almost major league ready for this year. Now that you brought up the Giants 200tang, they definately got the prospects, but do we expect them to possibly give up a handful of these guys? I personally am not too sure. I may go for it if I were the Giants, just because you will get decently young players in return and they have all basically have proven themselves, but you will definately have to clear out most of your prospects which the organization has spent most of their money on from what I have read.

Tim Alderson plays for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

[rschusta24]

Tim Alderson plays for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Figures, I looked a bunch of different sites. Giants don't have a good up to date prospect site like the Red Sox do. Thanks for the correction. That's probably who got trade for Freddy Sanchez I am guessing?

[Alloutwar]

The Tigers are not slashing payroll. No one with the organization has announced anything like that. It's just a bunch of speculation from dumb writers that have nothing better to do.

Angels and Tigers confirmed to be discussing Granderson

I hope you're correct, I'd prefer the Tigers keep what they have. Shopping Laird/Granderson/Jackson seems silly to me.

[rschusta24]

Angels and Tigers confirmed to be discussing Granderson

I hope you're correct, I'd prefer the Tigers keep what they have. Shopping Laird/Granderson/Jackson seems silly to me.

Wow, very interesting report. I think that a trade with the Angels would be very "silly" to take your words, haha. Maybe some of the Angels guys in the forum can help me out, but I am not really sold on the prospects that they have. I think the Tigers could go out and get a hell of a lot more from other teams. With these reports coming out, I am sure we will hear about other teams discussing this as well.

[200tang]

Angels and Tigers confirmed to be discussing Granderson

lol, that's just hilarious to me. Juan Rivera/Bobby Abreu/Gary Mathews Jr./Torii Hunter.

More outfielders please!

[rschusta24]

lol, that's just hilarious to me. Juan Rivera/Bobby Abreu/Gary Mathews Jr./Torii Hunter.

More outfielders please!

Haha, true. Is there a worse contract for basically a back up outfielder like Gary Mathews Jr. If anything the Angels need to be trying to unload some outfielders instead of gaining. $10.4 million = WOW!

[haveacigar]

Angels and Tigers confirmed to be discussing Granderson

I hope you're correct, I'd prefer the Tigers keep what they have. Shopping Laird/Granderson/Jackson seems silly to me.

I understand that. But just because they're listening to offers doesn't mean they are actively slashing payroll.

[200tang]

I will say this about the Detroit/LAA deal, if they get a deal centered around Brandon Wood and another 1 or 2 good prospects I'd probably take that for Granderson. It would obviously depend on the other prospects and if they're willing to take on any other players with bad contracts, but LAA has a good farm system.

[Jeffy25]

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2009/1...son-trade.html

[Jeffy25]

sorry, just saw i was late to the party, i didn't see the second page of posts.

[rschusta24]

I will say this about the Detroit/LAA deal, if they get a deal centered around Brandon Wood and another 1 or 2 good prospects I'd probably take that for Granderson. It would obviously depend on the other prospects and if they're willing to take on any other players with bad contracts, but LAA has a good farm system.

Just for debate sake, what if it was the Red Sox and the key players to the deal were, Jaboby Ellsbury, Clay Buchholz, and Daniel Bard and also a few lower tier prospect, would that be a better option? I have heard that a deal like this would be needed and maybe more, if anything was to happen to Felix Hernandez or even possibly Adrian Gonzalez. Not saying any of that is going to happen, it has just been discussions so far.

[HoustonGM]

Just for debate sake, what if it was the Red Sox and the key players to the deal were, Jaboby Ellsbury, Clay Buchholz, and Daniel Bard and also a few lower tier prospect, would that be a better option? I have heard that a deal like this would be needed and maybe more, if anything was to happen to Felix Hernandez or even possibly Adrian Gonzalez. Not saying any of that is going to happen, it has just been discussions so far.

If the Red Sox offered that package to me as the Tigers for Curtis Granderson, I'd take it in a heartbeat and ponder to myself what idiot alien replaced Theo Epstein.

[rschusta24]

If the Red Sox offered that package to me as the Tigers for Curtis Granderson, I'd take it in a heartbeat and ponder to myself what idiot alien replaced Theo Epstein.

Hahahaha. I personally wouldn't want to because I love Ellsbury because we have never had such a speed threat on the bases, plus he's a decent fielder and I was really pleased with Buchholz this past year. I was affraid he wouldn't ever pan out, let's hope he can take it into this season.
Anyways, if it is true about Felix Hernandez, which I don't think Seattle is seriously considering at all, if that is the basis of the trade, good deal or not? I personally don't really want to even though he is an AMAZING pitcher, but I just don't want to unload that much young talent.

[HoustonGM]

I'd trade that for Felix Hernandez if I was Boston.

I don't know if I'd do it if I was Seattle. Probably not.

[ragecage]

I have a feeling the Red Sox will do something big, you just dont have the Yankees win the World Series and do nothing about it. I would be sick to my stomach if I was Epstein.