Is basically their starting SS at this point. It wouldn’t make sense for them to do that deal.

Hopes meet Dashed. Dashed meet Hopes.

“cannot be traded without his permission”

he’ll go all Geoff Blum on us, I’ll be really happy for the dude if he does.

If the Nationals were to sweep the DH and the Mariners win tonight, making a 3 way tie for the Strasburg? It makes me all tingly on the inside.

for last first now right?

Nationals up 4-2 in the bottom of the 2nd in game 2.

Lastings Milledge and Emilio Bonifacio have sure put a spark into these guys.

And don’t ask for anything of value in return

a couple times for SD. I have at least one photo of him there, at Petco, to prove it.

Irregardless of where he plays, he goes all out. The Padres season is TOAST, but he still goes after every ball hit, full speed into the wall if needed.

He is still fun to watch and brings shenanigans to the otherwise shambles of a season.

The 8 teams Giles can veto, including 4 NL teams: Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Tampa Bay, Florida, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Washington.

Most teams have a sense of who teams will really let through waivers. The Cards and Mets probably knew that they would have to work out a deal to get Giles. For all we know they have already inquired about Giles earlier and didn’t like the price (in prospects). Giles was never going to be released so a claiming team is just waiting their time trying to claim him and by blocking the player for the sake of blocking him they risk creating bad relations with a future trade partner. Not to mention Giles was going to cost the claiming team at least $7 million ($2 million poison pill + $5 million buyout for 2009) plus his remaining 2008 salary for less than 2 months of work. Plenty of players make it through waivers and plenty of players don’t get claimed even though they would be useful to teams. Teams just know that they have to pick their battles. In this case, the Red Sox thought it was worth all this to keep Giles away from a couple of contenders and to make a play at him for themselves.

As for the CF thing. I’d have to think Drew is a better CF right now than the 38 year old San Diegan.

but i’ve always gotten the impression that he doesn’t really have the stamina and range for CF. He’s all-out in RF, though, and the idea of someone else having to learn the Petco RF quirks terrifies me.