Comments on: Vidro passes physical, trade official

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:34:54 +0000

And now with the Jays reportedly shopping Rios (which is dumb – they need Rios), he would have been a better target for trade than Vidro. Doyle and Fruto for Rios would have been a far better deal than Vidro’s trade.

Gods this is frustrating.

By: frenchonion

frenchonion — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:41:58 +0000

#183:

Welcome to USSM.

By: DMZ

DMZ — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:21:13 +0000

What, are your fingers broken? Do your research.

By: CouchGM

CouchGM — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:14:29 +0000

Also…Who’s “Doyle”? Save me the research…

By: CouchGM

CouchGM — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:52:34 +0000

Unless I see some evidence of sound decision making, I’m guessing we need to wait for blind, dumb luck.

#23

‘Blind’ and ‘dumb’ we got….

By: et_blankenship

et_blankenship — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:44:58 +0000

#179 – The Freddy Garcia/David Wright near-trade is mentioned briefly here, about half way down under June 27, 2004:
http://noslenblog.blogspot.com/2004_06_27_noslenblog_archive.html

Unfortunately, the link to the story is dead, although you might be able to search NY Post’s archives to find it. In a nutshell, the Mariners weren’t willing to meet the Mets demands, which weren’t actually that extreme; not then and especially not in hindsight.

By: Tak

Tak — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:35:39 +0000

but again, if they do not make any decent moves soon and/or get some results, Ichiro would be very willing to move out of Seattle. I am sure there are tons of teams who would love to add a player like Ichiro on and off the field, and the Ms will not be able to outbid every single one of them.

By: msb

msb — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:33:01 +0000

#169 – And to think the M’s were this close to acquiring David Wright from the Mets before they agreed to that deal.

gosh, I’d like to know what that trade was.

end of 2001 Cirillo traded to M’s at Lou’s request

end of 2002 Lou asks to leave, the M’s negotiate with the Mets who refuse to include Wright as compensation

Cirillo almost traded to Mets for Cedeno, declines to lift no-trade.

By: bakomariner

bakomariner — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:48:05 +0000

the only way zito comes to seattle is if we give him 120 for 10…which would make it almost impossible to resign ichiro next year…the free agent market sucked this year, and will next year, so we just have to hope that our veterans stay the course, the kids improve, and the boys on the farm take the next step…it’s not gonna happen this year…but we’re better than last year, and have some kids that will blossom soon…

By: Mr. Egaas

Mr. Egaas — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:04:51 +0000

Only reason Zito hasn’t signed with the Mets yet is that Boras is trying to screw them out of as much money as humanly possible. I don’t see him going anywhere else.