Bastard.

Fun with the internet: Click the link provided in your post. There, you’ll find a photo of Santana and a link below that which promises to lead you to his full career stats.

Next, count the number of seasons he’s been pitching at the pro level. Jeepers, he’s in his 5th season!

Kind of hard for him to be having a “Sophomore slump”, huh?

The internet is so chockablock of data and information, much of it farm fresh and hot-from-the-oven good, that there really is no excuse to refer to Santana as a Sophomore or to wonder openly about when Dan Haren’s contract is up.

To answer your last question, though, there is no indication the D’backs are seriously courting offers for Haren, but a winning bid from the Angels would most assuredly include Wood.

The Rockies need offense, but the team also needs defense. The team last night just had another game like the ones against the Angels, where the team committed a string of errors in a single play and allowed another “inside the park home run” with a single and multiple errors. Guys like Max Scherzer are much better pitchers than their records indicate because the terrible defense behind them keeps them from winning games. It may come to the point where the team dangles Harren with the hope of garnering 4 or 5 players who can help the D’backs by rising to the club over the next two seasons. As I said before, think of what the Rangers received for Teixeira; that trade, which was not quite two years ago, has provided the Rangers with its starting C, SS, one of its starting pitchers and two more pitchers at the minors level (one of whom, Feliz, could be the best pitcher to rise from the Rangers organization in decades). This is what the D’backs will want for Haren, so adjust your level of pain in who the Angels would have to give up to get Haren accordingly. Wood, Walden, O’Sullivan, Rodriguez, Reckling, Bell, Kendrick, Ortega—all of them would be on the table, with most of them included in a deal for Haren.

That’s because there is no way Arizona can continue to play as it has thus far this season.