MLB Trade Deadline Plan 3.0

[Big_Maple]

I’ll chime in here because it seems that the dust is settling on the brouhaha.

Regarding the plan (the reason SoB posted in the first place) - I don’t hate it. I kind of like it. But I find all of the trades highly unlikely. They feel a little like video game trades to me. For example, no one is taking Castillo with if 6-ish ERA, an aging 30-something arm, and a hefty contract. Unless we eat most of it, no one wants him, even with a few prospects.

Second, I don’t have access to a trade calculator, so I don’t know how realistic any of them are from that perspective. So yeah…no comment.

Regarding SoB - I have no specific beef with him. He can be prickly and opinionated, but I appreciate the effort and research he puts into his trade proposals. I find a lot of us snipe and troll trade proposals that folks put together without making any effort to come up with some of our own. Try putting a few of them out there for mass consumption (and praise or criticisms from others) - be vulnerable. Maybe we will be more judicious in the feedback we give to others.

In addition, I think we all have a little of our authentic personality that comes out in posting on a forum. But I think we also have a little false bravado that comes with anonymity. I take most of that with a grain of salt. Frankly, I’d love to sit down and have a beer or ten with just about everyone on this forum (except the bots) and have an actual conversation in the flesh.

Finally, as tolerant as I try to be, I have little latitude for accepting wishes of bodily harm. I think we can express our discontent, frustration and general pissy-ness without resorting to wishing harm on someone we have never met and hardly know.

That’s all I have to say on that. If any of you all are in my neighborhood, stop by for a cold one. We will talk baseball, armchair manage the Mariners, and drown our sorrows in the inevitable loss of the game that’s on.

[GL_Storm]

Someone on X posted a fantasy trade a few days ago that would have the Mariners swapping something (I think it was Hancock and a prospect) to the Rockies for Kyle Karros, which I thought was kind of interesting. Not knowing a thing about Karros and curious if he can actually play third base, I poked around and found some old prospect reports that seem to indicate that yes, he can actually play the position defensively. He even got himself a minor league gold glove at one point!

And early results in the majors seem to indicate that he can hit as well. Also, his home/away splits are about as good as you'll ever get from a Coors Field guy.

If I were in the Mariners front office, this is something I would be doing homework on at least. Realistically, it's a longshot. Teams almost never trade these players. However, there is a new front office in Colorado that could be willing to look at Karros as currency to bring in a haul. It would obviously take a lot more than Hancock and a prospect.

[D-train]

Someone on X posted a fantasy trade a few days ago that would have the Mariners swapping something (I think it was Hancock and a prospect) to the Rockies for Kyle Karros, which I thought was kind of interesting. Not knowing a thing about Karros and curious if he can actually play third base, I poked around and found some old prospect reports that seem to indicate that yes, he can actually play the position defensively. He even got himself a minor league gold glove at one point!

And early results in the majors seem to indicate that he can hit as well. Also, his home/away splits are about as good as you'll ever get from a Coors Field guy.

If I were in the Mariners front office, this is something I would be doing homework on at least. Realistically, it's a longshot. Teams almost never trade these players. However, there is a new front office in Colorado that could be willing to look at Karros as currency to bring in a haul. It would obviously take a lot more than Hancock and a prospect.

92 career OPS+ for Karros..

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

And even though I then complimented him and gave him thumbs-up. I'm offended.



We've got a pretty good forum here with enough active members, even with the one non-firing piston in our powerful engine. Personally, other than that guy (who's employing playground psychology by calling me a narcissist which he's been referred to as numerous times in the Political Forum), I like everyone here including Bruce, who I think I met at Darren's.

I can't make that claim.
Donn; is a dipshit that I try to avoid.
SOB; although his opinion is rough and mean, I believe the world would be a better place if he (SOB) wasn't in it.
PBJ; needs to be heavily medicated before he hurts himself.

The rest of you are great!!
-Well, maybe not all of you, but at least the rest of you are tolerable.

Lol, shut up you zio-bitch. You bring nothing to the forum. Or the planet. A complete waste of space.

[DavidGee24]

Finally, as tolerant as I try to be, I have little latitude for accepting wishes of bodily harm. I think we can express our discontent, frustration and general pissy-ness without resorting to wishing harm on someone we have never met and hardly know.

You mean well and thanks for chiming in, but some people unfortunately are like Terminators: they can't be reasoned with, they can't be bargained with, they feel no pity and they feel no remorse. You're talking about a guy who started a thread called "Baseball players are pussies", recently posted "I hate people", cusses up a raging storm at people in this Forum and the Political Forum, and just called me an awful human being and wished harm on me just because I said his trade ideas were unrealistic (and they aren't).

As far as the players involved, I'm surprised you like them as none of them would be a positive for us if we acquired them save for Bonemer who at this time is in AA...and you're not going to get him for a SP on pace for 3.5 WAR having his first good season in the Show.

[DavidGee24]

Someone on X posted a fantasy trade a few days ago that would have the Mariners swapping something (I think it was Hancock and a prospect) to the Rockies for Kyle Karros, which I thought was kind of interesting. Not knowing a thing about Karros and curious if he can actually play third base, I poked around and found some old prospect reports that seem to indicate that yes, he can actually play the position defensively. He even got himself a minor league gold glove at one point!

And early results in the majors seem to indicate that he can hit as well. Also, his home/away splits are about as good as you'll ever get from a Coors Field guy.

If I were in the Mariners front office, this is something I would be doing homework on at least. Realistically, it's a longshot. Teams almost never trade these players. However, there is a new front office in Colorado that could be willing to look at Karros as currency to bring in a haul. It would obviously take a lot more than Hancock and a prospect.

92 career OPS+ for Karros..

He hit well in the minors and it's surprising that at Colorado he hasn't really taken off, even as a second-year player. I doubt that they'd trade him because he's young and certainly capable.