Padres getting calls on Street, Benoit

[stormngt]

Except Bedrock would pitch like that a lot longer

I don't see the disaster. Street is already what you hope Bedrosian becomes.

[stormngt]

We are four back and the blow pen must have cost them at least 11 gamed ....so to answer your question...YES

A's have 4 relievers that are the caliber of Street and you think Street would make the Angels favorites?

[ukyah]

Y the fvck is he called bedrock?

 

don't question good nicknames, we're in the era A-? and ...y's. what happened to baseball and their great nicknames? days gone by.

[Guest]

Y the fvck is he called bedrock?

His father Steve Bedrosian, a Cy Young winner, was nicknamed Bedrock. Cam hasn't exactly earned that nickname yet.

Edited June 25, 2014 by ScottLux

[ELEVEN]

Schleprock?

[QuinlansMinion]

Getting Street would make the Angels favorites.  Not sure if they would catch Oakland, but we could do some damage if we made the postseason.  If we had a legitimate closer we only have to worry about the 7th and 8th innings.  The staff gives you a quality start most of the time.  Frieri makes our pen look at lot worse then it is.  If we could just solve our damn 9th inning problems were fine.  

[arch stanton]

And my point was that the A's have 4 relievers, 2 righties and 2 lefties that are as good as Street.

Your point is wrong.

[ukyah]

stop trading key farm system guys. bedrock is one of those key guys right now. just leave him alone, let him get a little bit better after that major league exposure and then own him for 6 more years for very little money. sounds like a good idea to me. find suckers to take the guys you don't actually want, that's what the cardinals and a select few other teams somehow manage to do.

[Taylor]

In before the A's or Rangers trade a mid-level prospect for Street.

[Hollyw00d]

Trading bedrosian for street would be a really bad idea. It might marginally improve the club now, but you're giving away a potential very solid pitcher that would be a part of this team for a long time.

this team is not enough of a contender to make that move

[nikkachez]

Hell get Street AND Benoit. Padres are looking to dump some salaries, take advantage of it. Borenstein, Yarbrough, Lindsey, Navarro, Cowart, Shannon, and Hinshaw all have to be appealing for a team looking for bats in the system. Padres get some talent, shed around $13-14 million from payroll, Angels get two shutdown relievers. Street, Benoit, Smith, Morin, Frieri, and any two of Santiago/Salas/Jepsen sounds amazing. 

[Lou]

How is a team with the 2nd best record in the AL (and 4th in mlb) not a contender?

That's just crazy

[Lou]

stop trading key farm system guys. bedrock is one of those key guys right now. just leave him alone, let him get a little bit better after that major league exposure and then own him for 6 more years for very little money. sounds like a good idea to me. find suckers to take the guys you don't actually want, that's what the cardinals and a select few other teams somehow manage to do.

We found a sucker to take Bourjos

[jshep]

We found a sucker to take Bourjos

 

And they are still coming out ahead so far.

 

Which is as much a testament to how bad Freese has been as anything, but nonetheless.

[Lou]

We have a better record and Freese has a higher ba than Petey.

[jshep]

And Bourjos has the higher OPS. And can actually play defense. Really really well.

He hasn't been good either, but he's been less bad than Freese

Edited June 26, 2014 by jshep

[Scott34]

And Grichuk!

[Lou]

Petey and Randy are batting .348

combined

[Hollyw00d]

too bad batting average isn't the only thing that matters in baseball

[ukyah]

We found a sucker to take Bourjos

 

ohhh, i'm sorry lou. we were looking for freese. the answer was david freese. care to go for double jeopardy?

[Hollyw00d]

We have a better record and Freese has a higher ba than Petey.

 

 

lol

[Lou]

too bad batting average isn't the only thing that matters in baseball

Who said it was?

[Hollyw00d]

your argument.

[Lou]

Wrong

[Hollyw00d]

the facts are, the cardinals handed their garbage to us (david freese), and made off with bourjos AND grichuk while they were at it

 

but he's good at driving in those important runs, so there's that I guess