Beltre is undervalued and I don’t know what other conversations were in place but we didn’t hear anything about anyone wanting the other players on the team. The reality is the majority of our dead weight is nothing anybody wants.

I’m curious what the NY fans are going to think about the lack of a Washburn deal if they get swept by the Angels…

I hope they get a real GM in there asap (someone from the outside) to initiate the rebuilding process. Lee doesn’t appear to have the skills or experience to do the job.

I’ll agree with Gammons on his bleak 4-5 years for the M’s.

it could be– but it has little to do with today’s deals or non-deals.

I mean, c’mon, this is still the same front office who made the Bedard trade, signed Richie Sexson, etc. etc. Until we have a new GM nobody is going to offer us value for value.

Pelekoudas was lucky to get Hernandez from the Marlins. Even if we had shipped off Washburn and Ibanez for some prospects, I wouldn’t be satisfied. That kind of relief will only come when a new GM shows me something in the way of logical long term organizational thinking.

I can’t imagine it gets any higher for Bloomquist than right now.

Hm… anyone know enough about the free agent rankings to guess whether Bloomquist would classify as a Type B? I think a middling pick that might work out is better than a middling pick that hasn’t worked out, which is what I’d imagine the M’s would get in trade for Bloomquist.