Manny Ramirez - 3 Way Trade Rumors

In the Nationals deal Ramirez comes to The City.  Same question about "other pieces" involved

Why give up talent and money for Manny when Bonds is available for just money?

Noah for Sexson makes even less sense. Further destabalizing an already shaky rotation undercuts any offensive improvement Sexson brings, and big Sexy is a whole lot older and more expensive than Noah as well.

If the Giants do this trade and re-sign Bonds, this would be a tidy little line-up with a potentially great bench:

CF Roberts
SS Vizquel
2B Durham
LF Bonds
1B Sexton
3B Aurilia
RF Winn
C  Molina

Bench: Feliz/Alfonzo/Sweeney/Frandsen/Linden

This leaves a rotation of: Morris/Cain/Sanchez/Correia/Lincecum

BullPen: Benitez/Worrell/Hennessey/Chulk/Wilson/Taschner/Misch

This team's pitching would be scary as hell, and exciting as hell. If the majority of the young pitchers came though, this team would be right in the thick of things in the NL West. If not, (which is likely), well, this is what rebuilding feels like. Evaluate the talent, provide the young hurlers with some experience, and see what cream rises to the top.

If you don't like this scenario, don't look at me. Tell Magowan to dip into that magic Maddux money before the Barry window closes for good.

At a minimum, we need one 2nd tier SP...Maddux, Lilly, Meche, resign Barry, and deal for a good position player at 1B or RF (Signing Huff for 1B could force Feliz into a utility role and not cost us any young pitching)  

Ideally, we'd sign Zito for 17m/yr (they said they had extra cash to burn) to replace our ace SP, sign one of Kline or King, and have a backup plan at closer (Foulke..Riske?) if no one will take Benitez.  

I just have a sneaking feeling that Sabean is considering Bonds AND Manny in the corners...a scary combo in many different ways...

We can (or at least used to) sign an aging FA bat with the best of them...If we do deal a Lowry or other young P, lets aquire what we haven't had in a long time...a solid young position player.

I'm tired and can't go to bed until my essay is done, so I won't give names or numbers or anything terribly coherent, but does it seem to anybody else that Sabean cannot possibly do the things that he is saying he trying and wants to do as far as signing another infielder, another starting pitcher, relief help, and swinging some serious trade on an 85-90 million dollar payroll? It sounds, and I know that Sabean doesn't often say the same things he does as if he's working pretending that he has a lot more money to throw around than he does.

I'm pretty sure that an official payroll limit has not been announced by ownership. Is it in the least bit possible that we might be seeing an unprecedented loosening of the strings? I actually hope I'm right, but I honestly doubt it with everything that provides a sense of doubt in my body.

I'm a big fan of Richie Sexson.  He's flawed, but he's a big stick who can blow open a ballgame.  If this deal was proposed two years ago, I would be jumping up and down in favor of it.  He'll be 32 next year, and he's bound to get worse and worse from here.  Still, he'd be a big upgrade to the Giants anemic offense.

If I had to trade any of the Giants young starters, Lowry would be the one.  He seems to have the mark of "close, but no cigar" on him.  The league may very well have figured him out -- will he be able to rebound again?  Tough to say.

If Seattle paid about $5 million of Sexson's salary each year, I'd be in favor of this deal.

Here's a link to news from Seattle about the Lowry to Seattle rumor (Giants get Sexson).

Lowry is a cheap pitcher who can only get more valuable, whereas Sexson is still overpaid and can only get worse.  I don't see how getting Sexson for him would make a lot of sense, unless Boston is sending some of their better position prospects to us or even Coco Crisp, or whatever the CF name is, or if we dump Benitez too in the deal.  The deal as outlines is preposterous, Seattle and Boston are the ones who are in a financial bind, the Giants should be getting more out of the deal because Lowry is a cheap and good resource, unless there is something about him that the Giants know and we don't.