The Trade Deadline Thread

[Goober]

The reason for that is this: The Phillies initially offered their two best prospects, pitcher Jarred Cosart and first baseman Jonathan Singleton, and were told that wasn't enough. The Phillies then offered to include their right fielder, Domonic Brown. But the Astros, according to one team that spoke with them, would prefer to spin Brown elsewhere for multiple prospects than take him themselves.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/page/rumblings110729/ranking-mlb-trade-chips

[Mogriffjr]

Pence would do wonders in that softball field Citizen's bank park. Small sample size but he's over 1.000 OPS there. Short porch, I think he'd post a similar OPS to what he's doing now at home in Houston (around .880 OPS).

[Obst]

Our softball field is 15th in homeruns according to MLB Park Factors, Minute Maid is ranked 8th.

[Obst]

The Reds are “strongly mulling a sell-a-thon,” according to ESPN.com’s Jayson Stark.

Sorry Rudi

[Goober]

The Reds are “strongly mulling a sell-a-thon,” according to ESPN.com’s Jayson Stark.

Sorry Rudi

Who would they sell? Cordero? Phillips? Arroyo?

[Obst]

Others believe the Indians are a big threat to acquire Jimenez, according to Jon Heyman of SI.com

[Rudi]

I don't know what a sell-athon consists of. If that means trading Ramon Hernandez and Coco Cordero then so be it.

[NAHSTE]

Our softball field is 15th in homeruns according to MLB Park Factors, Minute Maid is ranked 8th.

Minute Maid is also a softball field.

[Cody]

I heard the price on Jimenez is too high, I really don't wanna give up too many prospects. I wish we could have landed Upton instead of Fukeodeme(sp?)

[Warner2BruceTD]

The Reds are “strongly mulling a sell-a-thon,” according to ESPN.com’s Jayson Stark.

Sorry Rudi

Who would they sell? Cordero? Phillips? Arroyo?

I don't know what a sell-athon consists of. If that means trading Ramon Hernandez and Coco Cordero then so be it.

Exactly, this isn't some veteran laden team with a bunch of guys on one year deals, there is nothing to sell.

Ramon Hernandez? Maybe Cordero? That's about it. Anyone else of any worth is cheap, under team control, or have deals nobody would want.

[FirstTimer]

I heard the price on Jimenez is too high, I really don't wanna give up too many prospects. I wish we could have landed Upton instead of Fukeodeme(sp?)

Fukudome is basically a rental player for the rest of this year that you got for a couple lower prospects.

I would imagine the Cleveland FO is pretty sold on Brantley, Sizemore, Choo going forward and the price for Upton mayhave been a bit too high.

[Rudi]

And I still don't know if I believe we won't make moves to better ourselves for next year. When we traded for Scott Rolen a few years back, we were 9 games out of first...but in the long run [aka the year after] it really worked out. That's why I still wouldn't be opposed to getting someone like Ubaldo or Shields. They are long term investments

[moneyman255]

_JonHeyman Jon Heyman
reeling #reds going hard for bourn, as @Ken_Rosenthal reported. price set by #astros said to be high. #tradedeadline

[Warner2BruceTD]

And I still don't know if I believe we won't make moves to better ourselves for next year. When we traded for Scott Rolen a few years back, we were 9 games out of first...but in the long run [aka the year after] it really worked out. That's why I still wouldn't be opposed to getting someone like Ubaldo or Shields. They are long term investments

Yeah, there is no reason they can't be making moves for this year and next year.

If you fall out of it this year, who cares, the team is young with a long window.

1971 Reds finished in 4th place after a taste of winning in 1970. No reason to panic, sometimes a year just goes wrong. This is a solid team.

[moneyman255]

From Twitter:
Jim_in_Cincy Jim Mason
I have it on good authority that the #Reds are about to make a unpopular trade announcement.

Travis Wood was scratched from his AAA start tonight.