Adrian Gonzalez rumor

They are talking about a rumor on KNBR. I called and they said they got it from the Chronicle and ESPN. I searched each site and see nothing about it. Anyone know what they are talking about?

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This thread has definite OMG ROHLINGER potential.

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by rotorueter on Jul 23, 2009 2:49 PM PDT reply actions

http://www.realgmbaseball.com/src_wiretap_archives/15904/20090723/boston_trying_hard_to_get_adrian_gonzalez/
from 23rd July, 2009 – 4:58 pm

Boston Herald – The Red Sox are reportedly trying hard to acquire first baseman Adrian Gonzalez from the Padres.

A source told the Boston Herald that the Sox are extremely interested, but that they have been rejected by San Diego.

The Padres entered Thursday’s action at 37-58, twenty-four games behind the Dodgers in the NL West.

by superk1ng on Jul 23, 2009 2:52 PM PDT reply actions

quote fail

by superk1ng on Jul 23, 2009 2:52 PM PDT up reply actions

I’d vomit for the rest of my life if this happened.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 23, 2009 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions

Huh. Right after trading for LaRoche, too….

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by thehavenot on Jul 23, 2009 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions

and duncan

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by UnleashTheGore on Jul 23, 2009 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions

I’m thinking they just have very little faith in both Ortiz and Lowell.

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by rotorueter on Jul 23, 2009 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions

They need a power LHH bat

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by SoFa King Mike on Jul 23, 2009 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Well that’s not very interesting. Thanks, though. I wonder if this is what they were talking about.

by positiveuphemism on Jul 23, 2009 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions

Boston has enough hitters, give us some

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by CB30 on Jul 23, 2009 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions

They’re just trying to complete their NL 1B collection.

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by Natto on Jul 23, 2009 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions

it worked for Charlie Manuel.

Oh wait..

by jctGamer on Jul 23, 2009 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions

What are the Sox gonna do with Gonzalez? Don’t they already have like three first basemen?

I think Selig will eventually change the MLB rules so the Sox and Yankees can have 40-man rosters year-round.

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by Kitspool on Jul 23, 2009 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions

Bench Ortiz. Yuk to third. Lowell to DH until he is completely healthy. Gonzalez to 1B

by m34josh on Jul 23, 2009 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Oops. Forgot the part about LaRoche and cash going to the Pads in the Gonzalez deal

by m34josh on Jul 23, 2009 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions

that would suck so much for laroche

congrats, you’ve escaped one purgatory of perpetual losing … only to be shipped to what looks like it might be another a few days later.

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by Smoke on the Water on Jul 24, 2009 12:12 AM PDT up reply actions

Pretty sure they’d bench Lowell over Ortiz.

by Hobbes2d on Jul 23, 2009 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Not this year. Lowell is hitting like 100 points higher than papi

by m34josh on Jul 23, 2009 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions

So?

Ortiz had an awful start to the year. Since June he has been much better, also Lowell is a walking injury waiting to happen.

by Hobbes2d on Jul 23, 2009 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Thus the move to DH for him

by m34josh on Jul 23, 2009 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions

Lowell doesn’t need to play third to get hurt.

by Hobbes2d on Jul 23, 2009 6:31 PM PDT up reply actions

The Red Sox would have to trade just about their entire farm team plus Jon Lester for the Padres to do this. Trade an All-Star, homerun hitting hometown-bred Mexican ballplayer for anything less than the moon? I don’t think even Kevin Towers is that stupid.

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by GiantsFanInExile on Jul 23, 2009 7:52 PM PDT up reply actions

one team really wanting to acquire a player and the other team telling said team to fuck off does not constitute a trade rumor

by FluLikeSymptoms on Jul 23, 2009 7:55 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

NUH UH!! THATS NOT WHAT TEH INTERNETS SAYZ!

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by haverecords on Jul 23, 2009 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions

This so needs recs.

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by daveinexile on Jul 24, 2009 6:57 AM PDT up reply actions

Everyone post their trade ideas!

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by CB30 on Jul 23, 2009 2:58 PM PDT reply actions

NATE SHCIERHOLZ FOR MATT CANE

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by rotorueter on Jul 23, 2009 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions

Cain can’t win though. CAIN FOR WAKEFIELD

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by KTJ on Jul 23, 2009 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions

You're behind the times

Prior to today, MATT CAIN was the only starting pitcher to win on the road trip.

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by thehavenot on Jul 23, 2009 5:21 PM PDT up reply actions

So Timmy doesn’t know how to win then? It’s tough keeping up with these things.

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by KTJ on Jul 23, 2009 6:30 PM PDT up reply actions

whatever

still…
want. so. bad.

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by The Gene Hackman on Jul 23, 2009 3:00 PM PDT reply actions

espn insider headline says Halladay is LAD-bound?!?!?!

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by The Gene Hackman on Jul 23, 2009 3:05 PM PDT reply actions

Yeah. LA is trying to get him. I would too if I were them, their starting pitching needs help.

by Hobbes2d on Jul 23, 2009 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions

I hope the give up kershaw and kemp for him

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by The Thrill on Jul 23, 2009 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Russell Martin will have to suck it in Canada.

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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2009 6:23 PM PDT up reply actions

He’d actually probably enjoy that, considering he is Canadian.

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by GiantsFanInExile on Jul 23, 2009 7:54 PM PDT up reply actions

I’m pretty sure they won’t have to.

by Hobbes2d on Jul 23, 2009 6:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Considering what they’re asking from everybody else, I’m pretty sure they’d have to.

Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.

by cheno on Jul 23, 2009 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions

One or the other plus pieces should be more than enough.

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by CB30 on Jul 23, 2009 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions

Blue Jays are going to have to lower their price. Dodgers have infield prospects that interest Toronto, and they have arms other than Kershaw and Bills, who obviously are going to off-limits when they are a huge part of the Dodgers success for this year and if they want to be good in the future.

The Dodgers have plenty more that would interest Toronto, they have a really deep system.

by Hobbes2d on Jul 23, 2009 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions

they don’t have to trade him

by FluLikeSymptoms on Jul 23, 2009 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions

True, but they’re only going to get less value going forward.

by Hobbes2d on Jul 24, 2009 1:35 AM PDT up reply actions

Also it seems like Toronto might be in dire straits economically, so they might need to trade him to get Roy off their books because they cant give Wells away, and Rios obviously isn’t as attractive as Halladay is.

by Hobbes2d on Jul 24, 2009 1:36 AM PDT up reply actions

Slightly OT but....

I so very much wish that we had Adrian Gonzalez. Le sigh..

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by GiantBrass on Jul 23, 2009 3:17 PM PDT reply actions

me too

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 23, 2009 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions

UH HELLO WE NEED RH HITTERS IN A PITHECRS PARK!!1

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by rotorueter on Jul 23, 2009 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions

Well Adrian Gonzalez has a start Edgar clause in his contract.
(On a more serious note: Get well soon Edgar)

by SeeingStars on Jul 23, 2009 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions

yeah, we couldn’t do that given our strength at 2B

by FluLikeSymptoms on Jul 23, 2009 7:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Not much of a rumor. Boston wants Adrian Gonzalez and SD says no. If they had any encouragement at all on the Gonzalez front, they wouldn’t have made the deal for LaRoche.

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by rxmeister on Jul 23, 2009 6:07 PM PDT reply actions

LaRoche is a bench option for them and insurance if Ortiz or Lowell have to go on the DL. They tried to get Tex in the off-season, and it would be a great move for them to try to get Gonzalez. If he they did get him, the Giants should trade for Lars Anderson.

by Hobbes2d on Jul 23, 2009 6:36 PM PDT up reply actions

LaRoche makes 7 million dollars. That’s a lot of money for a sub. They might pay it because of the fragile health of Lowell and Ortiz, but I don’t think they would pay it if they thought they had a shot at Adrian Gonzalez. They would have waited. As for Lars Anderson, the Giants’ are no longer in that mode. They’re looking to add to the major league roster, not trade for prospects, although I don’t disagree with you.

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by rxmeister on Jul 24, 2009 3:27 AM PDT up reply actions

Not quite correct

BoSox will only pay LaRoche about $3M for the rest of the year – not $7M – then he becomes a FA. It’s a mute point anyway, because no way the Pads would take him as part of a Gonzales trade since they’d only own him for 2 months then lose him to FA.

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by Fla-Giant on Jul 24, 2009 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions

It’s a mute point

For all intensive purposes.

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by groug on Jul 24, 2009 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions

I want to nip this in the butt before it gets out of ham.

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by Natto on Jul 24, 2009 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Come in guys, everyone makes a mistake once and a while.

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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 25, 2009 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions

I’m disappointed that there are no eggcorns in your sentence.

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by Natto on Jul 25, 2009 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions

Adrian Gonzalez not on the trading block

mlb trade rumors said that Gonzalez is not on the trading block.

by northsfbay on Jul 24, 2009 2:47 AM PDT reply actions

I didn't realize that MLBTradeRumors were the new owners of the Pads

If you hang your hat on everything that you read on that site you’ll go crazy. They consistently print stories that contradict each other from one day to the next.

In general, no player is ever off the trading block. I’m 100% sure that the BoSox could easily put together a package of pitchers and players that would knock the Pads’ socks off (no pun intended) if they really wanted Gonzalez. If they offered Clay Buchholz, Lars Anderson, Casey Kelly, and others, do you really think the Pads would balk?

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by Fla-Giant on Jul 24, 2009 9:12 AM PDT up reply actions