Mark DeRosa is a good player, but a free agent after this season. If that is all you can get for Jonathan Sanchez, you might as well hold on to him. I wouldn’t even do Sanchez for Nick Johnson, because Nick is also a free agent, but Nick is a much more desirable player than DeRosa.

Sabean has lobotomy

He expects GM’s to hand over their best players because they’re arb eligible, or because they can’t afford them, and then he finds out the cold reality, which is that the player he thinks is a legit trade chip can only get an impending 34 year old FA who really won’t make a difference on this team. The time to make the upgrade was the offseason, when players like Mark Texiera are on the market. Now it’s not Sabean’s fault that the Giants’ aren’t willing to get into bidding wars for players like that, but those are the types of players that make a difference. The only other option to make it work is to draft the right players. Tuesday’s draft is what Sabean should be focused on right now. Trading for a player who will give you a couple of months and then come off the bench for the Yankees next season makes no sense. And the folly of it will be thrown in Sabean’s face for the next decade, when Jonathan Sanchez is winning games in some other organization.

34 year old with a .947 fielding percentage as a 3B who’s OPS’d over .850 exactly once in his career?

Yeah, give me some of that.

Yeah well, given the track records of the various people involved… I don’t believe nuttin’ ‘till it happens, and even then [accidental DFA] I’ll allow for a 2 day waiting period.

/hangs self

This is a move that a legit contender would make, I dont think the Giants are legit contenders yet.

If so, it makes sense. If not, perhaps Sanchez just has zero value on the market? Jason Stark did mention the other day that scouts have told him Sanchez will be a reliever in the future because he cannot stay consistent over 5 innings.

If you think about it, if that is Sanchez’s true value (reliever), he is basically worth one bat like DeRosa or Nick Johnson.

I vomited.

Too old, we dont need him

were not going to the playoffs

Are the Giants likely to win the NL West this year, even with DeRosa? No.
Are the Giants likely to win the NL Wild Card this year, even with DeRosa? No.
Will Mark DeRosa make this team more likely to win in the future, after DeRosa’s contract is over? No.
Will Jonathan Sanchez make this team more likely to win after this year? Maybe.

I’m against it.

He’s not gonna bring back anything worthwhile

Sabean has said repeatedly that they are not interested in acquiring players in the last year of their contract. This writer is trying to cleverly combine 2 seperate things; the Giants have had discussions about Mark DeRosa (as I’m sure they have had discussions about almost every MLB player) and the Giants would be willing to trade Sanchez in the right trade, so let’s add them together and this spiffy little “rumor.”

he has the ability, as we all know, but hasn’t put it together yet. He’s still fairly young and hasn’t pitched as many inning as we’d all think. Also, consider that the Giants handling of him, stunted his development. He basically lost a whole year being jerked around between the bullpen and the rotation, not just here, but in Fresno as well. In 2007, he threw only about 75 innings between SF and Fresno. He should have had a least 100 more. Then, last year, he had some arm trouble as a starter again. I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

I also think his WBC routine slowed his readiness for this season.

Now, we have to live with this stunted development at the major league level. He can still right the ship, but he needs time to do it. Maybe that’s not here, but he’s got the stuff to be good if he can harness it. Hard throwing lefties more often take more time to do that. They don’t always find it (Perez) but they sometimes do (Unit, Koufax). If he could get somewhere in between those two extremes on that spectrum, he’d be pretty good…and valuable.

We’re not going anywhere this season. We might as well let him work through his mechanics, whether here or in Fresno if he gets worse.

I’d rather have Wood.

I don’t think that Sabean would consider Sanchez for DeRosa. I do think he would consider Sanchez/Good Prospect for DeRosa/Garko, and that scares me.

if DeRosa is all you can get, might as well just stay put and leave any playoff hopes up to B Money and Sandoval getting ridiculously hot in August/September

Just once I’d like to see something like “Albert Pujols could be available and the GINATS BRASS!!1 has had internal discussions about acquiring him.”

Obviously it’s ridiculous, but I’m tired of all these rumors involving old and/or mediocre players

It’s kind of funny; all the Indians fans don’t want this deal, most of the Giants fans don’t want this deal. Kind of makes you wonder: who DOES want this deal?

I’d pass too; I like Sanchez, he’s got great potential, and DeRosa is a fantastic player but I’m pretty sick and tired of trading prospects (even the high-risk ones) for short-contract over 30 VETERAN GRIT.

However Sanchez for Ass Cabrera would make me smile.

Sanchez and Bochy for LaRussa?

would you think the mets would like to trade wright for sanchez
he aint a big hitter to me but i think he can hit in some runs in
or atleast get a better hitting coach not saying he aint trying