Padres & Astros in "serious discussions" about The Wolf

"Earlier this week, the Astros were forced to place veteran pitcher Roy Oswalt on the disabled list with hip and back trouble.

Wolf has a no-trade clause that includes 14 teams to which he cannot be dealt without his permission, but the Astros are not among those."

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Astros?

I know it’s a new regime over there, but could they possibly want to deal with us again considering how well KT does in trades with them?

by Dex on Jul 21, 2008 9:44 PM PDT 0 recs

Ed Wade

He did work for two years as a Special Assistant to KT in the Padres front office…

by Drama on Jul 21, 2008 9:51 PM PDT up 0 recs

who do we get?

Geoff Blum

"We will never be the darlings of the chabliss and brie crowd who disdain us."

by The Kipper on Jul 21, 2008 9:46 PM PDT 0 recs

Better...

Mark Loretta and a minor league pitcher from Triple AAA Round Rock (Jack Cassel).

by Drama on Jul 21, 2008 9:50 PM PDT up 0 recs

Can Mark play SS?

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. -Babe Ruth

by sdsuaztec4 on Jul 21, 2008 9:52 PM PDT up 0 recs

"I'd rather have Drew Brees at shortstop than Mark Loretta."

by CurbEnthusiasm on Jul 21, 2008 10:05 PM PDT up 0 recs

Brocail?

You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars.

by C8LIN B on Jul 21, 2008 10:23 PM PDT up 0 recs

Michael Bourn?

by Drama on Jul 21, 2008 10:14 PM PDT 0 recs

Bourn

Michael Bourn’s numbers make me want to crap a book on how to puke…..but if KT can pull it off, why not. Solid 4th OF at least. Because, you know, we need more of those. (at least this one can run)

by Dalton on Jul 22, 2008 9:15 AM PDT up 0 recs

Bourn is the only guy I can come up with.

He’s 25 and he has serious speed.

The problem is the Astros have pissed away so many of their prospects on trades for guys like Tejada, Valverde, etc. that the cupboard is pretty bare.

by Drama on Jul 22, 2008 10:21 AM PDT up 0 recs

JR Towles?

by Dalton on Jul 22, 2008 10:38 AM PDT up 0 recs

Seems like it would take more than Wolf

Isn’t Towles basically their best young prospect/position player?

Have KT throw in one of our 16 catching prospects.

by goose1 on Jul 22, 2008 10:43 AM PDT up 0 recs

Definitely more than Wolf

by Dalton on Jul 22, 2008 10:50 AM PDT up 0 recs

Wolf plus Colt Morton

They’d get a really cool name in return!

Towles is young, but he’s not exactly lighting things on fire over there. Ditto Bourn.

by goose1 on Jul 22, 2008 10:54 AM PDT up 0 recs

if we throw Barrett in the deal

they can’t say no!

www.wellbelowthemendozaline.blogspot.com

by justdave on Jul 22, 2008 11:10 AM PDT up 0 recs

Here's a bunch of trash, Houston!

Some of it may be recyclable! Just hand over a few decent prospects and this deal is done!

by goose1 on Jul 22, 2008 11:17 AM PDT up 0 recs

to quote Billy Madison

“here is a nice piece of sh!t”

www.wellbelowthemendozaline.blogspot.com

by justdave on Jul 22, 2008 11:22 AM PDT up 0 recs

All fan-trade talks are pretty much the same....

“What if we send [underwhelming former prospect] and [aging/injured veteran] to them, and they send us [top prospect/temporarily slumping All-Star]?”

I’d like to suggest a few:

Houston gets: Randy Wolf. Michael Barrett. Khalil Greene. Paul McAnulty.

San Diego gets: Tejada, Berkman, Lee, Oswalt.

by goose1 on Jul 22, 2008 12:01 PM PDT up 1 recs

So, so true

by Winfield's Ghost on Jul 22, 2008 12:12 PM PDT up 0 recs

sounds like an awesome deal to me

(i’m obviously joking about the Barrett thing, i don’t even think we could get a dozen maple bats for him)

www.wellbelowthemendozaline.blogspot.com

by justdave on Jul 22, 2008 12:45 PM PDT up 0 recs

Put it this way

All Towles had to do was out-hit Brad Ausmus to keep the job. Needless to say, he failed.

can you cure us of this fate
mock the litany in its face

by Axion on Jul 22, 2008 12:39 PM PDT up 0 recs

Brocail, Bourn, and Blum

and it’s a done deal Wade.

"We will never be the darlings of the chabliss and brie crowd who disdain us."

by The Kipper on Jul 21, 2008 10:27 PM PDT 0 recs

The Astros are absolutely destroying themselves.

I dedicate the posts I'm submitting to the big gangsta CHARMIN and my main man, Bissell Air Freshener.

by overand on Jul 21, 2008 11:41 PM PDT 0 recs

Why on earth would the Astros want Wolf?

"If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself." - Bob Dylan

by JollyWaffle on Jul 21, 2008 11:42 PM PDT 0 recs

In their defense...and it's not much of one...

Ed Wade loves The Wolf from his days in Philadelphia and tried to sign him before the Padres did this past off-season. Oswalt just went on the DL and they need someone they think will give them some decent innings. Put it this way, their starting pitching is such a disaster right now Jack Cassel is starting for them against the Pirates tonight.
Having said that, they’re 10 games back in the Wild Card. If they’re giving KT anything back of real value…Ed Wade is an idiot. But, any Phillies fan (and now Astros fans) could tell you that.

Even though the Astros have obviously soured Michael Bourn (he has like 19 at-bats since July 4 and Darin Erstad is now the starter in CF), I doubt The Wolf is enough to steal away Bourn. Maybe we’re packaging someone with The Wolf for Bourn? Who knows.

by Drama on Jul 22, 2008 6:40 AM PDT up 0 recs

Humberto Quintero?

can you cure us of this fate
mock the litany in its face

by Axion on Jul 22, 2008 10:19 AM PDT up 0 recs

The Astros farm system is a rank disaster

It has to be one of the worst in the league—-worse than the Padres, even. What would KT even want out of that system? It’s not like the Brewers/Linebrink deal, where there was a fairly deep system to choose from.

Michael Bourn is interesting—but he real upside seems to be that he’s “fast.” I doubt his bat gives the Padres anything more than Gerut/Hairston/Headley are providing. At best Bourn can shut all the fans up who keep asking for ‘speedsters’ because ‘speed doesn’t slump’ (speed also, mostly, doesn’t get on base….)

by goose1 on Jul 22, 2008 10:22 AM PDT 0 recs