SP market heating up

by rayver723 on Feb 7, 2008 12:30 PM PST Comment 11 comments

several reports this morning have reds, dodgers, twins, rays, red sox, etc possible teams interested in blanton. this interest can trickle down to lowry/sanchez, there's always a market for lefty pitching.

finally the market might open up after this drawn out soap operas with santana/bedard. Business will be picking up soon for big sabes!!

what will happen??

Blanton May Be Traded

1:32pm: Paul Daugherty and John Fay of the Cincinnati Enquirer report that the Reds and Dodgers are talking to the A's about Blanton. Seems to be a disagreement about whether the Dodgers are in on this.

10:31am: Check out this new Ken Rosenthal video (hat tip to MetsBlog). The video is all about Joe Blanton.

* One Rosenthal source suggests a 50/50 chance Blanton is traded (presumably before the season starts).
* Two teams are showing significant interest. Rosenthal believes the Reds are one, and the Twins or Rays could be another. He rules out the Dodgers, Yankees, Rockies, and Indians. The Reds have had preliminary discussions for Blanton already. How about the Phillies? They came calling in July.
* Rosenthal notes that the bounty for Blanton will be less than that of Dan Haren, because Blanton is slightly more expensive and an inferior pitcher.
* On January 14th, an A's source suggested to MLB.com's Jim Molony who expected Blanton to be the A's Opening Day starter.

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Re: SP market heating up

Red Sox may be voiding Schilling's $8MM contract due to shoulder woes that would need surgery.

But the Sox are pretty packed with arms so they probably won't need Blanton's services.

I think Blanton's heading to Chavez Latrine or Cincinnatti.

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by SoFa King Mike on Feb 7, 2008 12:36 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

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Why are there so few rumors about teams going crazy to have Noah Lowry? :)

by sharksrog on Feb 7, 2008 1:46 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

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Lowry: Soft throwing and 162lbs.
Blanton: Hard throwing and 270lbs

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by ACgiant87 on Feb 7, 2008 3:03 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

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Seriously? What a fatass...and fuck there goes any hope we had of getting Encarnacion...

by boonitez on Feb 7, 2008 4:30 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

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Now, Blanton is the better pitcher, but '[h]ard-throwing?' Blanton's FB is 91mph. That's not bad, and it's better than Lowry's 88mph, but it's not 'hard'.

'Hard' is Cain (94mph) and Lincecum (95 mph). Blanton is average, Lowry a soft-tosser, and Zito (86mph) is.. I dunno, off the map.

by wcw on Feb 7, 2008 6:36 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

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past 3 years: IP/FIP
Blanton: 201.3/4.4, 194.3/4.21, 230/3.59
Lowry: 204.7/3.84, 159.3/5.01, 156/4.88

I know of one GM who would point to the 2005 season and say "HA, Lowry's the better player clearly", but unfortunately he's the one who controls Lowry.

by awesomer on Feb 7, 2008 3:23 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

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Dreamed up a new deal last night. Since it involves trading Lowry, thought this would be the best spot for it. I recognize that this is wild speculation, but here goes anyway:

Rays get Noah Lowry and Eddy Martinez-Esteve
Giants get Joel Guzman, Edwin Jackson, and whatever minor league arm they are willing to cough up in their top 20.

EME and Guzman were both highly touted prospects who have fallen off the radar, though perhaps their guy hasn't fallen off so completely. Lowry gives them a guy who can compete now, where Jackson is fairly unreliable (but with much promise).

I'd say that chances are that at least one of these guys figures it out eventually (though not living up to original hype), and then we can sick him on the Dodgers who gave up on him.

Fair? Shrewd? Silly? All of the above?

by BigO on Feb 8, 2008 11:43 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

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Oh, I forgot to say that I didn't pull the Rays out of thin air. Rosenthal mentions that they may be one of the teams looking at Blanton in an effort to beef up their SP. Ok, not thick, foggy, San Francisco air, but not thin either.

by BigO on Feb 8, 2008 11:45 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

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Have you seen Martins bit on the Twins? ( http://obsessivegiantscompulsive.blogspot.com/ ) I could go with that.

by daveinexile on Feb 8, 2008 12:02 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

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thanks for the link. I think I'd go for that kind of deal as well. I would still love to get someone we could just plug in at 1b this year, though, because the Ortmeier experiment seems doomed.

by BigO on Feb 8, 2008 12:24 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

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In all honesty I think the biggest virtue in the Ortmeire experiment is at least the front office is not tying up resources to get 1-2 players to get similar production. Other then that every year the Baseball Gawds favor some absurd project or two. Why not one of the Giants? We would seem to be about due.

by daveinexile on Feb 8, 2008 6:41 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs