Angels trade Jett bandy to Brewers (Source)

[ELEVEN]

6 minutes ago, 19HALO71 said:

Anxiously awaiting the other foot.

Go Halos!!!

It should be Arte's up someone's ass.

[John Smith]

Transactions

• June 7, 2004: Drafted by the Anaheim Angels in the 27th round of the 2004 amateur draft. Player signed June 21, 2004.
• January 10, 2007: Released by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
• January 24, 2007: Signed as a Free Agent with the Milwaukee Brewers.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maldoma01.shtml

[totdprods]

Maldonado isn't bad necessarily - in some ways, I can see how he may be what Bandy is most likely turns out to be. But Bandy's upside seems like it'd be worth keeping. 

Drew Gagnon looks like Daniel Wright 2.0. Nothing particularly exciting, unless Eppler sees some crazy spin rate or something that makes him intriguing.

I guess there's another catcher in the works, but would that make Maldonado a DFA candidate? So essentially it'd be Bandy for Gagnon? That doesn't make sense. Is there any way to look up players remaining options?

 

[ELEVEN]

Did Sosh kick Bandy off the island?

[ksangel]

I hope it's not Weiters...always hurt...played 215 games in the past three years....and is 30 and will cost a mint and is a Borass client

[totdprods]

At a very quick glance, Maldonado seems like he could be the Second Coming of Jose Molina, which doesn't sound very exciting, but could be a very good thing.

I haven't seen any outside sources reacting with a WTF either.

[ELEVEN]

4 minutes ago, calscuf said:

Sosh found out his last name was really Bandini and, well, we know how that goes.

Just when ya think yer in, they drag ya back out

[totdprods]

Maldonado was no worse offensively than Bandy was in the second half either. 

Eppler is going all out on defense. 

[nando714]

6 minutes ago, ELEVEN said:

Did Sosh kick Bandy off the island?

Somebody please paste sosh's face on this. It would make me laugh 

[Second Base]

This trade sucks.

[hangin n wangin]

This trade is poop dick.

[totdprods]

Just now, Scotty@AW said:

This trade sucks.

Yeah this is the first Eppler trade I'm having a really hard time grasping.

[Oz27]

While I'm perplexed by this trade, this thread is indicating people here really overrated Bandy.

[kevinb]

So I'm confused we traded for a guy who batted 202 and 210 the last two years?

[Stradling]

Do we know the prospect yet

[ELEVEN]

Why is Jett being bandied about?

[Hubs]

I never understood the Bandy love and was advocating for Wilson Ramos earlier in the offseason. He wasn't a good hitter in his rookie year. But I suppose he had the potential to get better. They needed some experience back there and Perez didn't really have any trade value. 

Perez also badly slumped in his second year after looking promising offensively in year one.

 

[kevinb]

Bandy is younger w more upside isn't that the people Eppler is trading for?

[Docwaukee]

They must not have believed in the metrics showing that Bandy is a very good defensive catcher.  Also, his swing is swiss cheese.  Gonna get painfully exploited by major league pitchers.  That said, there is a lame factor here in that we are giving moving a guy with some potential that could have been fun to watch develop.  

The guy we got is basically Carlos Perez.  I wonder if we are going to trade him too and then sign someone else.  

[beatlesrule]

Gagnon?  Ugh.  This makes absolutely no sense at all. Even if Scioscia gave him the Napoli treatment, he is definitely worth more than a 30 year old .200 hitting catcher and a bad 26 year old RP.  Even if we do sign Weiters or Castillo, the trade still makes no sense because now Perez would need to be traded.  I have no idea what is going on.

[HaloNArizona]

Gagnon was acquired to up the amount of Dirt Bags on the team:

 

School: California State University Long Beach (Long Beach, CA)

[kevinb]

THis reeks of a Mike S trade

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, beatlesrule said:

Gagnon?  Ugh.  This makes absolutely no sense at all. Even if Scioscia gave him the Napoli treatment, he is definitely worth more than a 30 year old .200 hitting catcher and a bad 26 year old RP.  Even if we do sign Weiters or Castillo, the trade still makes no sense because now Perez would need to be traded.  I have no idea what is going on.

Except he wasn't given the Scioscia treatment, he was basically the starting catcher the second half. 

[beatlesrule]

Just now, Stradling said:

Except he wasn't given the Scioscia treatment, he was basically the starting catcher the second half. 

HUH?  I meant even if, as in he wasn't, but even if Scioscia didn't like him, he still should be able to get more value for him.  This trade makes no sense for the Angels.  Brewers fans must be loving it.

[SigBaby]

1 minute ago, beatlesrule said:

HUH?  I meant even if, as in he wasn't, but even if Scioscia didn't like him, he still should be able to get more value for him.  This trade makes no sense for the Angels.  Brewers fans must be loving it.

Brewer fans?