Hot Sexy Mariners Trade Deadline Preview

by Jeff Sullivan on Jul 30, 2010 4:19 PM PDT in Miscellaneous

It's funny - the amateur draft and the trade deadline are supposed to be two of a baseball blogger's annual highlights. Instead, I didn't really care about this year's draft because the M's were too good to get a high pick, and I don't really care about this year's trade deadline because the M's are too bad to have many movable players now that Lee is long gone. So those are two should-be exciting events that I won't get to experience. Still, I'm sure people are curious about pieces we could theoretically move by 1pm tomorrow, so below please find my brief reviews of each trade candidate, along with their corresponding value in PTBNLs. Each PTBNL is represented by a picture of High Desert's Stephen Penney, because High Desert's Stephen Penney seems like a PTBNL kind of guy.

David Aardsma

The upside is that Aardsma's a Proven Closer with two more years of team control. Also, the strikeouts are still there. His value, though, is lower now than it would've been earlier, given his command trouble, his mediocre ERA, and the flood of relievers on the market. I doubt he's anyone's first choice, and Minnesota had long shown the most interest until they got Matt Capps.

Josh Bard

Switch-hitting backup catcher! A shame nobody wants a catcher.

Casey Kotchman

There's a certain perception of Kotchman out there, one that isn't going to be swayed by a red-hot month of July. The Red Sox got some guy named Ian Bladergroen for Doug Mientkiewicz, which seems about right.

Ryan Langerhans

Ryan Langerhans has cleared waivers approximately seven hundred times, and to boost his value, the Mariners have given him all of 75 trips to the plate. We all know he's good, but other front offices for whatever reason don't really care, and the M's have done nothing to make him more appealing. Not that they really could've.

Brandon League

Two more years of team control, a decent ERA, a bunch of innings, and dynamite stuff. League's a very movable guy, and a very desirable guy, if a guy many other teams wouldn't quite trust to handle important innings. He just has the feel of a future closer, given his velocity and the fact that he seems kind of stupid. He isn't a prize, and his stock is lower than it was in the offseason, but he could return something interesting.

Jose Lopez

Jose Lopez has the second-lowest OPS in baseball among qualified hitters, ahead of Cesar Izturis. Fun fact: he's just behind Chone Figgins.

Jack Wilson

.595 OPS, injury problems, $5m 2011 salary.

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"Ian Bladergroen"

Former High Desert Maverick.

Pro Ball NW | @Jon_ProBallNW

by JonBBT on Jul 30, 2010 4:25 PM PDT reply actions

Not unlike...

by Jeff Sullivan on Jul 30, 2010 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions

A turd is still a turd, no matter how much you polish it.

Milton Bradley apologist

by sanford_and_son on Jul 30, 2010 4:28 PM PDT reply actions

If you kick a turd up in the air over and over, eventually its going to land the way you want it to

but in the end, it’s still a turd.

by BRKLN M'S on Jul 30, 2010 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions

They're a lot like toast.

They were once food, but now they can never go back to being food again. Unless you are a dog. Or like super hungry with no other options. Or you got it on a plate and thought it was Indian food but it turns out it was not even though because the person ate a lot of curry it does have a slight Indian food taste but otherwise smells horrible and you wonder how you were ever fooled into thinking it was food in the first place but now it’s too late so you have to either keep this story to yourself or wait until you are older when it might be funny but probably won’t be because holy crap you ate poop on purpose thinking it was Indian food.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Jul 30, 2010 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions