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Brewers agree with Alex Gonzalez on a 1-year contract. While I will miss his defense, I will take an average defender who is not clueless at the plate over him.

 

One less potential suitor for Jimmy Rollins...

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Mat Latos to the Reds for Yonder Alonso, Yasmani Grandal, Edinson Volquez, and Brad Boxberger. My goodness that is a lot.

 

But I like it for both teams.

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Mat Latos to the Reds for Yonder Alonso, Yasmani Grandal, Edinson Volquez, and Brad Boxberger. My goodness that is a lot.

 

But I like it for both teams.

:o Wowzers yeah nice for both teams, we will finally get to see Yonder in the bigs..

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:o Wowzers yeah nice for both teams, we will finally get to see Yonder in the bigs..

 

Yep, as soon as the Padres find new homes for Rizzo, Blanks, and Guzman.

 

But too much of something is never bad. Very interested to see what they do though.

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Yep, as soon as the Padres find new homes for Rizzo, Blanks, and Guzman.

Is it certain that they have to move both of the 1B? I've heard that Alonso has been transitioning to OF for a while now, lost a bunch of weight this offseason to help the move.

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Is it certain that they have to move both of the 1B? I've heard that Alonso has been transitioning to OF for a while now, lost a bunch of weight this offseason to help the move.

 

I think they had Blanks in LF for a while last year also. Seems like a pretty big risk to move a guy that isn't a natural OFer to LF in one of the biggest OFs in the league. Have to think at least 1 or 2 of those guys will be traded, even if they can get Blanks or Alonso to work in LF.

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Yeah, I just think they could probably get a big enough pull from just Rizzo and Blanks to make keeping Guzman (1B) and Alonso (LF) worth it.. or, if they want the higher upside, keep Rizzo and ship Guzman.

 

For what it's worth, EKS thinks Blanks and Guzman will be traded.

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Gio to Nats for Cole, Norris, Peacock, and Milone. Love this for Oakland.

 

Wow, uh, that is a lot. Especially since I could easily see Gio turning into Oliver Perez 2.0.

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Wow, uh, that is a lot. Especially since I could easily see Gio turning into Oliver Perez 2.0.

 

Glad that the Jays didn't make a move for him.

 

He is a good pitcher, but is definitely not worth the demand for him. Him picthing is perhaps the most pitcher friendly stadium in the league made him look better than he actually is.

 

He is a good pitcher, but I don't see him being more than a good/average number 2 or great number 3.

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  • 2 weeks later...

The Cubs/Red Sox/Padres love triangle strikes again. Anthony Rizzo and Zach Cates to the Cubs for Andrew Cashner and Kyung-Min Na.

 

Quite predictable that Theo would get Rizzo back at some point.

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Sometimes, it is really hard for me to fathom how dumb sports writers can be. It seems like I re-visit this topic most when the Hall of Fame vote is going on. It will be pretty shameful if Jeff Bagwell is not elected. IMO, he is the most obvious candidate of the past 5 years or so.

 

Jon Heyman, quite possibly the biggest hack in the industry, has already unveiled his ballot, which does not include Bagwell, but does include Jack Morris. Seriously.

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Ryan Madson signs with the Reds. Later MadDog, thanks for the good times.

 

BTW, if he signed for significantly cheaper than Papelbon (still awaiting details, but I suspect he did), I will be very angry.

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