CJ Wilson available for trade...

[jordan]

Reports Jon Heyman.  Angels aiming higher???

 

"Angels left-hander C.J. Wilson is available in trade, rival GMs say, causing some to wonder whether they might be trying to set things up for a big run at a bigger pitcher, either via free agency (Max Scherzer, James Shields) or trade."

 

 

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/writer/jon-heyman/24872645/cj-wilson-is-available-in-trade-could-la-be-aiming-even-higher

Edited December 7, 2014 by jordan111280

[SoWhat]

Pittsburgh makes sense. CJ is the type of arm they usually go after.

[Blarg]

Broken ones?

[AngelsAndRamsFan]

The Angels don't plan on eating any of his contract. Good luck trading him without eating any of his contract.

[Adam]

He's lived up to his contract for 5/6s of his time here. He was awful in the second half last year but I think there's a very good chance he returns to form

[SoWhat]

Reclamation projects. They can't afford to re-sign Liriano and Volquez, so Wilson makes some sense.

Edited December 7, 2014 by SoWhat

[nando714]

Angels would have to pay some of his salary I assume

[SoWhat]

The Angels don't plan on eating any of his contract. Good luck trading him without eating any of his contract.

LOL! Yeah, nvm my post.

Edited December 7, 2014 by SoWhat

[IEAngelsfan]

That's like saying I'm open to winning the lotto.  Either one is unlikely to happen. 

[CanadianHalo]

"Good Luck"

Sums it up right there and I agree, I can't believe anyone would want him. I think his second half of last season is the CJ any team trading for him would get.

I'm glad to see JD is trying though and recognizes the need for another SP.

Edited December 7, 2014 by CanadianHalo

[Stradling]

I'm in the CJ can't possibly be as bad as he was last year camp. If a team thinks they see a flaw that's correctable I could see him being an attractive option for a team, even at his price tag.

[bloodbrother]

The Angels have suggested they aren't inclined to eat any of his $18 million annual salary, so it may be difficult. And considering the glut of available starters, as one rival GM put it, "Good luck."

 

 

Good luck, indeed. Especially after the season he had.

[nikkachez]

Broken ones?

Yes actually

[nikkachez]

This is only happening if the Angels eat some of his contract. Obviously they'd love for someone to eat all of his salary so they could go out and sign Lester (or lord forbid Scherzer or Shields) but that just won't happen. I'd be okay if they traded CJ, ate $5 million of his contract, and signed someone like McCarthy. Or they trade him and try to save as much money as they can and then still sign Lester and go slightly above the tax threshold. 

[Tyler]

Trade him to Philly for Jesse Biddle. Both need a change of scenery.

[Mark68]

Broken ones?

They took Frieri.

[Mark68]

He's lived up to his contract for 5/6s of his time here. He was awful in the second half last year but I think there's a very good chance he returns to form

Based on....?

[wopphil]

I think if CJ were a free agent, he'd be looking at a deal in the range of 2 or 3 years, at 11 to 13 mil per year. So realistically, I the Angels would have to eat at least 12 mil to move him.

[wopphil]

And great fact checking by Heyman. The Angels won 98 games, not 99, and CJ is owed $38 mil the next two years, not $36.

[JAHV76]

Doesn't he have a limited team no trade clause? If so that would make it more difficult without eating part of his contract.

[TroutCron]

Next Heyman eill tell us that Hamilton is in the market but yhe Angels are nit inclined to kick in any money.

All these writers at the winter meetings hsve to come up with something. The CJ report took no imagination.

[nikkachez]

Doesn't he have a limited team no trade clause? If so that would make it more difficult without eating part of his contract.

To 8 clubs, I'll take my chance of one of 22 clubs taking him, assuming the team consumes some money, over a full no-trade clause

[ettin]

As I mentioned in the Primer Wilson, despite his inconsistent results in 2014, is a left-handed 200 inning workhorse who is projected to about 1.5 WAR in 2015. That has value on the trade market.

 

Now, as I suggested in the Primer and wopphil mentioned above, the Angels will need to eat salary to move him. It'd be difficult to do so otherwise. However if the team ate $10MM-$20MM of his contract they could definitely get something useful back.

[Second Base]

The funny thing that most people don't realize, the Angels and Butcher were able to identify at least part of what they felt was causing Wilson's control issues and robbed him of the bite on his breaking ball.

Wilson was unwilling to alter his approach. He's always said he knows himself better than anyone. The Angels were always fine with this because in the past he could self-regulate and figure it out. But last year he couldn't.

It just made Scioscia and Dipoto uncomfortable to not have any say I think.

[AngelStew43]

I would move him for a bucket of balls, the way he pitched last year.