Endless Mike {l Wrote}:cvilleagle {l Wrote}:EagleNYC {l Wrote}:Yankees are in free fall and their pitching staff is a MASH unit. Rays doing their annual August explosion.
Meanwhile, Gonzalez has apparently cleared waivers and the claim belongs to the Dodgers. Wonder if the can/will agree on a trade.
Why? Can't say I understand trading Gonzalez at all. He is fantastic.
EDIT: I mean, look, you can trade anyone for the right price, but they had better get an incredible haul for him.
They had to throw in someone like Gonzalez because he's the only player who is worth anything right now.
De La Rosa is filthy and has already proven he can pitch in the Majors. Webster is a legit pitching prospect. Sands was one of their top hitting prospects but has been passed by a few guys in their farm system; he's a very nice acquisition too. Too bad about Gonzalez, but they needed to blow this team up. I like this.
I just wish they could have thrown Lackey in there.
I'm hoping/thinking Lackey's disposed of this offseason. They'll probably trade him for a bag of balls and pick up a good 80% of his salary, but I think they'll still unload him.