Dye ----> Reds: Bailey ----> White Sox

by SethGrandpa on Dec 7, 2008 9:18 PM PST

Via the Dayton Daily News:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/pro/reds/2008/12/07/ddn120808spredsweb.html

Well Ken Williams apparently wants an all new team.

Homer Bailey was a stud prospect before stinking up the joint last year to the tune of 0-6 with a 7.93 ERA in eight starts with the Reds and a record of 4-7 with a 4.77 ERA at Class AAA Louisville. I know ERA and W-L aren't great stats, but when you're terrible it shows. Plus I don't feel like looking up better data.

Jermaine Dye meanwhile is the same guy he's always been and gets to go to another hitter friendly park. Plus he's only got one year left on his current contract (with a mutal option for 2010) so don't be suprised if he gets flipped at the deadline for prospects or gets held onto for pick compensation next winter.

Seems like a decent deal for the Reds if they consider Dye as tradebait/pickbait and are not looking at him as the missing piece to a condending ballclub next year.

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Jermaine Dye is below-average.

by Jeff Sullivan on Dec 7, 2008 9:31 PM PST up reply actions

Like Dye is even projectable

by JI on Dec 7, 2008 9:39 PM PST up reply actions

Kind of like Raul Ibanez!

by seattlebruin on Dec 7, 2008 10:01 PM PST up reply actions

Both parties are denying there's a deal

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by pdb on Dec 7, 2008 9:32 PM PST reply actions

Yeah, this isn't happening.

At least not tonight.

by Teej on Dec 7, 2008 10:03 PM PST up reply actions

I remember when Walt Jocketty once acquired the best centerfielder of this generation

and several other all stars for spare parts.

My how the mighty have fallen.

Fuck Mark Mulder

by JI on Dec 7, 2008 9:41 PM PST reply actions

My favorite was the Richie Sexson to the Diamondbacks trade

In hindsight it’s not that great since he got injured, but they essentially threw a buttload of crap + Overbay at Milwaukee and got Sexson back

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by Corco on Dec 7, 2008 10:05 PM PST up reply actions

...which had nothing to do with Walt Jocketty

How did I mess Jocketty being named Reds GM?!

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by Corco on Dec 7, 2008 10:14 PM PST up reply actions

*miss

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by Corco on Dec 7, 2008 10:14 PM PST up reply actions

Capuano was one of their top pitching prospects.

Moeller was a good backup catcher. And the rest were crap.

Still, an above average 1B, an excellent pitching prospect, a backup catcher, and some roster filler is a big price to pay for a 1 year rental 1B. And the 2004 team lost a franchise record 111 games.

by Goose on Dec 7, 2008 10:19 PM PST up reply actions

Though that did get them Justin Upton so yay!

by Goose on Dec 7, 2008 10:19 PM PST up reply actions

I love Capuano.

I would love for Zduriencik to make a run at him, assuming it wouldn’t cost an arm and a leg.

by Teej on Dec 7, 2008 10:27 PM PST up reply actions

Good chance that Capuano will be a non-tender

Coming off of TJ surgery and Brewers probably don’t want to offer him arb.

by JLC on Dec 7, 2008 11:57 PM PST up reply actions

Also the Brewers flipped Spivey for Ohka, and then Overbay for Bush, Zach Jackson, and Gabe Gross...

and then Zach Jackson was part of the Sabathia deal and we traded Gross for same random class A pitcher…

I think it worked out alright but yeah it was basically a nothing-nothing trade when it really came down to it.

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by Jack Moore on Dec 7, 2008 11:03 PM PST up reply actions

It's definitely a high price

It just reminds me of a baseball mogul trade where you keep adding random players until it balances out

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by Corco on Dec 7, 2008 11:58 PM PST up reply actions

The Brewers got a bunch of cheap players

to hold positions and accumulate a little trade value until our prospects were ready, and an unexpected “ace” when Capuano won 18 games in ’05. It was a pretty good deal for an expiring contract first basemen.

And neck size to baby eating ratio.

by Jordan M on Dec 8, 2008 8:40 AM PST up reply actions