From Camden.Depot.com Rangers Top 20 list.

From mlb.com Raangers Top 20 list.

From Scott’s Blog Rangers Top 20 list.

I was thinking about this guy the other day. Blalock being a CA kid from the San Diego area would be a nice fit. Being a lefty hitter with signs of some decent pop would be welcomed at third base. The part that scares me however is the fact that he has only played 123 games the past 2 years due to injuries. between 03 -06 he had very impressive numbers.

I might do a Blalock, Diamond and Hunter / N. Ramirez for Sanchez

Man do they have a lot of catching talent on that club.

The Rangers have a really nice farm system at the moment.

with matching parts included? This only after obtaining another top of the rotation starting pitcher – Sabathia, Peavy, Johnson, etc

More rosterbating! I was getting a little backed up here.

and nothing will every get done.

It mentions how Texas is interested in Cain (shocker), but how theyll focus on Sanchez, but how "Blalock still doesn’t seem like enough " for him.

I think I remember us trading for Blalock being discussed in here a while back. A lefty power hitting third basemen sounds great, but besides how injury prone he is, some of his hitting stats away from Arlington were pretty revealing of how he would do in AT&T.

Does anybody have those stats?

Blalock for Bocock?

"The Rockies prefer to keep Garrett Atkins, but the Twins, Dodgers, Giants, and Phillies are all interested. Chase Utley has been a long-time supporter of bringing his former UCLA teammate to the Phils for a reunion.

The Marlins are getting several inquiries on Jorge Cantu and Dan Uggla. They don’t plan to trade either, though if the Giants were to offer Jonathan Sanchez for Cantu, the Marlins would jump at the chance."

Would mind getting Atkins if the price is right, but I still think Pablo is the way to go.

As for Cantu? No can do.

in exchange for Lowry and happy meal.

The Giants must be in love with every bad fielding third basemen out there.

the rangers are exactly the kind of team we should be looking to deal our pitching to, if we decide to do that, because they’ve got a great farm system and seem to really lack arms. So if we were going to trade sanchez, I’d almost rather we just did it for a package of prospects rather than blalock+prospect.

He’s a free agent after 2009. Why trade a good young pitcher for 1 year of an injury prone 1b/DH? It just isn’t they type of deal that will help this team rebuild for the future. Sanchez for some 2 minor league hitters would be ideal.

I’m iffy on this deal for a variety of reasons. A Blalock has been injured off and on the past two seasons and is well known for his terrible home/road splits. Last year he had a .343 avg and a 1.025 ops at home and hit .249 with a .720 ops on the road. While it’s fairly common to perform better at home, it’s uncommon to see splits such as Blalock’s. Also remember The Ballpark in Arlington is the American Leagues version of Coors Field. So there would be an expected drop-off anyway. At the same token I think it would be very optimistic to even expect Blalock to put up a .300/.350/470 line at home which would be a .820 ops. Which would still be about 200 points below his ops last year. If the other piece we got was a young Rangers pitcher like Neil Ramirez or Micheal Main I would warm up to the deal but it’s unlikely the Rangers would sense the Sanchez and Blalock’s values aren’t that far apart. What are your thoughts?

Blalock has always been a terrible hitter outside of Arlington. We don’t want him, even if we don’t give up much in return.

“A utilityman like Eugenio Velez or lefty reliever Jack Taschner and a prospect would be a fair return.”

MUCH better…Velez for Blalock, DADDY LIKEY

According to Hal McCoy of the Dayton Daily News, a Major League source told him a Homer Bailey for Jermaine Dye trade “is done and will be announced this week.”

Oh well, I think Bailey has more in his name than his talent. At least Sabean can’t trade for Dye now!

can we please find some way to get a hold of chris davis

sanchez + (NOT avil, buster, madbum, alderson) for chris davis. The guy is 22 with great upside, adds power, fills a giant hole we have

this is all i want for christmas is a trade like that

I asked for him in a trade in Baseball Mogul and the Rangers only asked back Tyler Walker, Rajai Davis, and Waldis Joaquin from me.

Blalock falls directly in the “i’ll take a gamble on him if he’s free but i certainly wouldn’t give up anything to get him” category.

With regards to Chris Davis i’m not sure i really see a fit. I don’t think Texas would trade him unless they got Cain back as Sanchez wouldn’t be enough, and their farm is absolutely loaded, so i wouldn’t think they’d be interested in trading him for prospects. I wouldn’t trade Cain for just him, and i’m not sure they’d throw in much value on top of it. If they were to add some good prospect as well, then it’d be more interesting.