Trade Deadline Thread

[Stradling]

Possible deal between LAA and MIN. Hearing Hector Santiago to Twins.

[DMVol]

Just now, Stradling said:

Possible deal between LAA and MIN. Hearing Hector Santiago to Twins.

Hearing that where? Link?

[AngelsFanSince86]

3 minutes ago, Troll Daddy said:

Someone said, it's a sellers market. You don't sell just to make a deal ... any trade has to be a overpay. Doesn't look like that's happening. 

 

Except this year is lost and Joe Smith is a FA at the end of the year. Literally anything you can get for him is a good deal.

[Troll Daddy]

28 minutes ago, Chris said:

Yankees now have 7 top 100 prospects, Angels zero.

 

I hope the Yankees miss the playoffs by one game.

[Stradling]

@jesseburkhart: Possible deal between LAA and MIN. Hearing Hector Santiago to Twins.

 

taylor Blake Ward retweeted it.  No idea if it has any legs.

[Troll Daddy]

Just now, AngelsFanSince86 said:

Except this year is lost and Joe Smith is a FA at the end of the year. Literally anything you can get for him is a good deal.

They'll trade Joe Smith 

[DMVol]

Just now, Stradling said:

@jesseburkhart: Possible deal between LAA and MIN. Hearing Hector Santiago to Twins.

taylor Blake Ward retweeted it.  No idea if it has any legs.

Wouldn't make a lot of sense since Twins would appear to be sellers...

[Tank]

55 minutes ago, Lawrence said:

Has anyone acquired DJ Jazzy Jeff?

he was picked up by west philadelphia.

[kevinb]

Why would Minnesota make this trade. They are one of the few teams w a worse record than the Angels

[disarcina]

hey, when's the deadline?  1 PM PST or 1 PM East Coast time?

if it's 1 PM PST -- geez -- they drag it out to the last possible moment --

If Halos do nothing it shows that the front office is truly asleep, although.........

on the other hand -- teams are waiting the Angels out on Street (his performance Sunday clearly did not help his already falling value much), Smith and perhaps even Santiago -- realizing that the Angels need to deal the first two or just have the equivalent of rentals on their own team for two months of a lost season...........so Angels are holding firm on their (likely unrealistic demands, I assume) until they aren't and then Street and Smith get dealt for lower end prospects mired at A ball level or even an over the hill AAA guy who's not quite a 4-A player with good AAA numbers but little MLB time and approaching 28/29........and then the Halos still need to pay half of the remaining contract just to move the guys (Street/ Smith).. Santiago they may hold onto for at least insist on some value in return.

[Tank]

34 minutes ago, beatlesrule said:

The amount of ineptness would be almost unbelievable.  In a clearly losing season where you've had a stupid amount of injuries, a barren, pathetic excuse for a farm system and a sellers market, to not make any trades goes against all logic.

or maybe they didn't like any of the offers or felt like the offers wouldn't help them improve.

it's not a one-sided scenario, as many on this site want to think.

[nate]

25 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Maybe we don't have great talent and the offers suck.

Anything is better than nothing.  No point in holding onto MLBers when the team doesn't have a shot at winning until at least 2018...

[nando714]

[stormngt]

Wouldn't a trade of Smith be beneficial as a salary dump and get us under the salary cap for the year,

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, nate said:

Anything is better than nothing.  No point in holding onto MLBers when the team doesn't have a shot at winning until at least 2018...

With Smith I agree, with the rest, you can trade them in the offseason or next deadline.  

[beatlesrule]

Lucroy to Rangers.

[ettin]

Wow Santiago to the Twins?

[nate]

Just now, Stradling said:

With Smith I agree, with the rest, you can trade them in the offseason or next deadline.  

You get more now than you would in the off season.  They are worth a season and a half of prospects now, instead of just a season worth.  Plus you are competing with FAs.  There is a reason why prices are always so high at the deadline.

[Stradling]

Yep, Nolasco and Myers?  Who are they?

[HaloSpurs]

Smith to the Cubs

[AngelsLakersFan]

SANTIAGO TO THE TWINS!!

[nate]

Well at least Santiago is traded.  For a MLBer for some reason though.  I think that Arte is delusional enough that he thinks the Angels can win next year.

[Troll Daddy]

3 minutes ago, nate said:

Anything is better than nothing.  No point in holding onto MLBers when the team doesn't have a shot at winning until at least 2018...

The FO thinks otherwise

[Stradling]

Wow.  

[Tank]

8 minutes ago, Kevinb said:

Why would Minnesota make this trade. They are one of the few teams w a worse record than the Angels

why would the angels make this trade? did they get anything of value?