Screw Rooker, Let's grab Lawrence Butler
Mariner's trade for Yimi Garcia
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Captain 97
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Re: Mariner's trade for Yimi Garcia
First of all Oakland is not going to trade a guy making the minimum with 5 years of control left. Secondly, Rooker is lightyears better than Butler across the board.
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Re: Mariner's trade for Yimi Garcia
They won't trade a dude with 5 yrs control but they'll trade their best player with 3 yrs of control? I like your thinking
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Captain 97
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Re: Mariner's trade for Yimi Garcia
He is heading into arbitration and is about to get expensive. Of course they will trade him. This has been their MO for the last 25 years.
Re: Mariner's trade for Yimi Garcia
They have to build around something/someone to get Vegas interested. Rooker just might be that guyCaptain 97 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2024 2:01 amHe is heading into arbitration and is about to get expensive. Of course they will trade him. This has been their MO for the last 25 years.
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Donn Beach
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Re: Mariner's trade for Yimi Garcia
They are playing in Sacramento for the next three seasons but yeah, things could be changing
Posted this once already
Posted this once already
Oakland general manager David Forst said earlier this week that the team wasn’t looking to deal all their players of note. “We may do some things, but anyone who expects we’re going to continue to just move guys for prospects will probably be disappointed because there’s guys here we think are part of the team beyond this year,” Forst told Martín Gallegos of MLB.com on Monday (X link). Fost didn’t specify names but was surely referring to players like Rooker, Bleday and closer Mason Miller — who went on the injured list this week and is very unlikely to move. While those comments could include some amount of gamesmanship — it wouldn’t serve the front office well to exaggerate their urgency to subtract — it seems they’re projecting a similar message in conversations with teams.