More Trade Rumors

Please, please, please!  This would be good.  But seriously, considering his career stats, I think the Rockies should trade Helton.  They would get skewered by the fans and press, but think of how much they could get in return.  Helton looks like he is in decline and Shealy looks like he could be a decent 1b.  Hey! If the Rox want to trade Shealy, let's grab him!!!!

Vidro's D is visibly going downhill considerably, too. Watching him pretty regularly here in DC, I'd say Jose has a good chance to be another Durham over the next few years.  Spurts of great production puntuated by plenty of visits to the DL.

Given the intradvisional nature of a potential Shealy deal, the Rockies would almost definitely want Sanchez, particularly because Shealy would start for us today if we had him (and for years to come), but I'd hate to have another Liriano situation WITHIN our own division. Over at Purple Row, they're already demanding a ton for Shealy.

About the Fox/Vidro rumor, the two sources who say the Giants are chasing Vidro appear to not have knowledge of the Giants intentions whereas the Giants source says that the Giants are not chasing Vidro.  I would believe the Giants source before the others, the other two could just be spreading rumors started by the Nationals/Bowden, to build up "competing" bidders for Vidro, particularly since there's the Alou/Expo connection (former Expos here include Grissom, Moises, Kline, Hermanson, Fassero, could throw in Brower too, sort of), the Giants future deep pockets, and need for 1B now and 2B in future.

However, the concept makes a lot of sense, the Giants could take on a huge contract someone else might want to ditch.  But Vidro?  Don't make sense since Sabean typically try to get defense for 1B.

Which would point to a Helton trade, he has a LOT of years left on his contract with a HECK of a LOT of money, the Giants could eat that easily, replacing Bonds salary with that essentially, and he plays good defense and hits.  My main issue is this appears to be a decline year and he's in the right age range for that, so he could be a gigantic version of Edgardo Alfonzo for the rest of Helton's contract.  

The money deal would work with Burrell too if we play him at 1B first, then maybe move him to LF.  But I would assume the poor defense would be a problem with him.

For some reason, I cannot get the Shealy article to open up, but I agree that it would take an overbid on our part to get the Rockies to part with Shealy, Sanchez, Valdez, plus maybe EME or Schierholtz or Ishikawa, because of the intra-division nature of the trade.

What other 1B that other teams want to dump?

I'm telling ya, now that the Padres have released youngster Vinny Castilla, the Giants can pick him up for 1st base duties.