All I had heard was Lincecum for RIos rumors (with a dash of Cain) this past offseason and nothing about Sanchez for Rios. Sanchez for Rios would have been met with enthusiasm IMO

I was going to use it in your Lincecum/Rios post that no matter what is printed or said in the papers, we as outsiders don’t have the faintest idea of what is being discussed and given serious thought. Maybe it was Sanchez all along, since Sabean didn’t address any player by name. We don’t know and we may never know, which is why I didn’t agree with your previous post. This is the absolute last I will post on any Rios related talk, I swear.

I would have to agree with Mr. Schulman, it’s a good thing he did hang on to Sanchez. If he continues his good pitching throughout this year and through next year as well, he should be a VERY hot commodity. Even hotter than corn right now!

Plus you have to take Cain’s struggles into consideration. No, Cain won’t go all Zito on us, but there’s a possibility (however slight it may be) that he doesn’t have the stuff to be part of the dominating 1-2 playoff punch that we thought he would be. Sanchez could fill that void if he keeps this up for a year or two…and a R/L combo would be even better than a R/R combo.

That being said, I wouldn’t trade any of the Lainchez trio for Rios. Dominating pitchers are too hot of a commodity to be given for just an above-average position player.

I would have been in favor of this during the offseason. Now, not so much.

I think Schulman made a mistake. Sanchez was never reported to be in the mix; it was between Cain and Lincecum, then changed to Lincecum, IIRC. Or am I totally wrong?

for Matsui.

Another bullet dodged. Hey maybe this whole “letting young guys get regular playing time” thing that is all the rage with other teams is actually legitimate.

As muchas we’ve seen sanchez blossom, and the strides he’s made in bemoing a pitcher and not a thrower, we need to hang onto him for the time being. The guy is a stud.

I’m perfectly fine with trading Sanchez. I’d trade him for a Matt LaPorta type prospect, or preferably something even better where we can squeeze as much value out of Sanchez as possible

I’d still consider trading Sanchez for Rios.

/ducks

If it was Sanchez for Rios, Sabean would have done it in a second, and nobody would have disagreed with it. Toronto might make that trade now, but they never would have done it before seeing the 2008 Jonathan Sanchez edition. And needless to say, if Sanchez did what he was doing this year for the Blue Jays, we would all be blaming Dave Righetti and calling for his head.

I sent an email to Henry Schulman asking for clarification. I’ll let you know if he replies.

I remember these rumors, but not Rios. I also remember that my brother saw something on a White Sox board regarding Timmay for Crede. (This was after the Rios thing had played out, and I informed him that the Sox fans were smoking serious crack)

At the time Crede was an unknown due to his surgery, and we didn’t know Sanchez was going to mature so quickly this year either. But, I thought it would have been a good deal, and am still somewhat if favor of it.