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Hey! I played with Tony Zych once!

QUOTE (Cerbaho-WG @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 08:55 PM) And not really a good haul for Lee. With how big his salary is, I can't believe he could command much at all. $25 million per for that many years is just a huge commitment/risk

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 08:46 PM) What exactly are you saying?? Are you already giving up on him because of a little slump?? I don't think that's what he was saying. He was just saying that his high strikeout rate and lack of extra base hits foretold his numbers eventually sinking

QUOTE (Frank_Thomas35 @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 08:52 PM) Iglesias, Bradley Jr., Ranuado + for Lee and Young is my guess That is a f***ton of salary going to the Red Sox

Nobody benches a position player unless he is getting traded. You don't do it in anticipation of maybe a trade. We don't seem to be particularly close to moving him anyway

QUOTE (Baron @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 08:47 PM) I asked Dan Hayes why Rios was playing today...because they still need to showcase him he told me even though all those teams have been following him for 3+ weeks Of course Rios would play today. Don't be silly. He's an everyday player, he's going to play every day.

Lindstrom is clearly doing this on purpose!!!

Who cares about whether Rienzo gets a win. I can't believe baseball players actually think about that stuff anymore

Because everyone knows that Veal has a much better chance getting a lefty out, regardless of what 13 innings of splits say. Jesus, have some common sense

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 08:41 PM) The "haul" from the Angels will be B and C prospects. That's what Kennedy is worth. Also note that Angels farm is not strong. The haul from Arizona will be reduced by the value they lost because they lost Kennedy. Maybe they send us only 1 top prospect and the rest of the return will be from the Angels, but I'll believe it when I see it, because the net result of this is that we are paying no money, which also would mean lesser prospects. I don't think the Kennedy trade affects the total value going to us other than it enables the trade to happen in the first place. I do assume that these lesser prospect(s) from Angels will go to us though

Phil Rogers ‏@ChiTribRogers 2m Reports of 3-tm White Sox-AZ-LAA trade are intriguing. Diamondbacks' Adam Eaton, Angels' Peter Bourjos among good targets for Rick Hahn. If the D'Backs/Sox could turn Ian Kennedy into Peter Bourjos, that would be highway robbery

Semien 3-3, 2B, HR unreal

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 08:28 PM) But he won't bring the value of prospects we want. And then Arizona is unlikely to send us the prospects we want, because their cost is reduced by the value of Kennedy. So this three way trade sounds like we'll get mediocre prospects from the Angels and Arizona. I'm not following your logic at all. 1. Moving Kennedy frees up the money to get Peavy 2. We weren't going to allow Kennedy to make up any part of the deal except a throw-in. 3. They knew he had value that is higher than zero. 4. They bring in Angels who will give them this greater than zero value. 5. Since it is a three-way trade, they are apparently going to send all or part of the haul from the Angels to us 6. We also get what we wanted in the first place (Owings, Davidson, Holmberg, whomever)

Bowden also later added that Cards were unwilling to consider CMart or Wacha

Beat writers and I think that was the top of his foot

That could easily be a broken foot.

Rios with apparent foot injury

No reason to freak out about Anderson. He's been fine. Sample was small. He was batting .320 a week ago

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 08:14 PM) Nope Though I'd easily be joining the Rick Hahn fan club if it were

I don't think that's for us!

I like him! You can see where he can be rough around the edges, but you can also see why he's been so dominant lately. Looks like a MLB starter to me.

Dayan's conventional (AVG/OBP/SLG) and advanced (wRC+/UZR/UBR/WAR) almost a mirror of last year now.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 07:56 PM) that's not the point...it's a plus add-in. why do you think they're trying to move him...peavy's spot + money. Watching him pitch right now saying "i'd take him...." I think what we're seeing is that Kennedy can turn into some caliber of prospect(s) for the D'Backs so they don't want to just throw him into a deal for us when they can get actual value for him from someone else. In this case, they're going to turn that value into something we want (prospects)

Davidson has demonstrated a far more impressive capacity for plate discipline

QUOTE (Wanne @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 07:53 PM) Honestly don't know why they wouldn't just include Kennedy in the Peavy deal and toss back Lindy... We probably don't want Kennedy at the expense of prospects