Trade Juan?

by Rally Manatee on Jun 30, 2008 7:08 PM PDT

Bill Shaikin of L.A. Times had this brilliant idea:

Angels' Juan Rivera Might Be Dodgers' Answer

"The Angels love collecting arms, preferably power arms, so give them their choice of middle reliever Cory Wade or Javy Guerra, a fireballing Class A reliever with erratic control."

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought trades were supposed to attempt to benefit both teams involved. Shaikin does know that Mike Port is not our GM anymore, doesn't he?

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good for the Doyers

bad for us.
it would take a bit more than 1 Class A pitcher.

Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.

by howiestheman on Jun 30, 2008 8:10 PM PDT reply actions

Oh wow, that's it! All praises due to Bill Shaikin!

That is clearly the answer. We should totally give up a proven bat for a not-ready-for-the-majors reliever with control issues. And we even get our choice! You know how we just love to add to our arms collection while simultaneously helping out the Dodgers who we totally give a hot shit about.

White trashin' the 909

by Red114 on Jun 30, 2008 8:44 PM PDT reply actions

If we play our cards right

Maybe they give us Billy Ashley and Kaz Ishii

YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWER OF THE DARKSIDE.....

by halofolife on Jun 30, 2008 10:50 PM PDT reply actions

Kirk Gibson!

Kendrick - he's a tender little guy.

by Rally Manatee on Jul 1, 2008 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions

Let's just give Juan playing time

Instead of trading him.

by infant on Jul 1, 2008 10:26 AM PDT reply actions

Maybe we should trade Vlad too

Hopefully they’d bgive us Meza or Berroa in return.

Shaikin is a fool.

by Ajax on Jul 1, 2008 11:18 AM PDT reply actions

I would actually give this trade serious consideration.

Cory Wade came up just this year, is putting up excellent numbers for a youngster in his first exposure to the majors (he has about a 4:1 K:BB ratio!), and won’t be arbitration eligible until 2011. He could slot in behind Scot Shields on the depth chart, replacing Justin Speier and/or Darren Oliver.

The main reason I wouldn’t do this trade if I were Ned Colletti is that

1) I am already an idiot, and
2) I have already signed Andruw Jones to clutter up an outfield already polluted with non-hitting, non-throwing Juan Pierre.
3) Since the Dodgers play in the National League, there is no DH position available for Juan to play in, so he’s back in the same circumstance he is with the Angels, except that he’s the fourth man instead of the fifth man.

That is, I don’t see such a trade working for the Dodgers, and even if it did, Colletti and Torre together seem to have a collective inability to tell a good player from a bad one. Remember the home series against the Dodgers? Remember Gary Bennett’s THROWS over the head of the first baseman? Uh huh.

Witty .sig goes here.

by scareduck on Jul 1, 2008 2:42 PM PDT reply actions