July 31, 2008
Manny Traded to Dodgers
Manny Ramirez has been traded to the LA Dodgers, where he can spend his evenings commiserating with the rest of the 2004 Red Sox over the front office shenanigans that brought them to the west coast.
Update: Unconfirmed blog reports Reliable mainstream media reports say that Manny went to the Dodgers, Matt Kemp 3B Adam LaRoche went to the Pirates, and Jason Bay went to Boston. Wikipedia already has Bay listed as a Red Sox. Those nerds are fast.
Update: RHP Craig Hansen and RF Brandon Moss went to Pittsburgh in the trade. The Pirates are shaping up to be the alpha team in the Pittsburgh Three-Way.
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Don't let the door hit you on your fanny, Manny!
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They had to include Hansen and Moss? That is way too much, only getting Bay back. Could we at least have gotten Grabow from the Pirates too?
"To quote Samuel L. Jackson in just about any movie: "I don't have a good feeling about this.""
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I wonder what's going through Bay's head right now.
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Not happy about losing Moss...
RE//ESPN's Rob Neyer:
"Yeah, I think this is a fantastic deal for the Red Sox, as they've got Bay next season for $7.5 million. See, this is why they win ever year ... they're just smarter than everybody else. "
Talk to me in October and we'll see how smart the Sox are.
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Manny's thinking he's being all smart, too, but he's used to getting all kinds of attention. In LA, he's just another wacky dude.
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So the Dodgers now have Nomar, D.Lowe and Manny. Billy Mueller works for them, I think....who's next from the '04 WS team to sign with them? Tek? Schill?
I pitty Joe Torre.
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They paid in $$ and players to get rid of Manny. They wanted him gone, regardless of cost.
Bay's stats are comparable to Manny's and he's a better player in the field. Bay is cheaper, too but that also gives them another $13 million to spend elsewhere in '09.
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yeah, I wouldn't call this a great deal, nor would I call it a bad one. Sometimes if you just need to dump a player it costs you more and that's what happened here. Losing Moss stinks but freeing up $13M for next year and getting a player of similar caliber who's also younger.
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good riddance.