Phillies acquire Brad Lidge from Astros

[ChaosLex]

Very, very interesting...

[ChaosLex]

Wonder if they'd try to include him in a trade for Tejada?

[BaltimoreTerp]

How long until the Mets give him a dump truck full of cash?

[ChaosLex]

Here's the link by the way. It's actually a five-player swap.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3099599

[Greg Pappas]

Sad effort by Houston. This was a terrible trade for the Astros. Costanzo is a power hitting 3Bman, but struck out 157 times in AA and is already 24 years old. Decent prospect, but Geary is a 31 year old average-at-best middle reliever and Bourne is a 4th outfielder with good speed.

That's why they stink, poor decisions on personnel matters.

[Fairfax Bird]

Sad effort by Houston. This was a terrible trade for the Astros. Costanzo is a power hitting 3Bman, but struck out 157 times in AA and is already 24 years old. Decent prospect, but Geary is a 31 year old average-at-best middle reliever and Bourne is a 4th outfielder with good speed.

That's why they stink, poor decisions on personnel matters.

Well Bruntlett absolutely stinks ... so it was essentially Lidge for Bourn, Costanza, and Geary. Geary I throw out not that big a deal and Costanza has a lot of question marks. However, I have a higher opinion of Bourn than you. Think he could be a nice lead-off hitter and CF for them.

[alexei606]

Sad effort by Houston. This was a terrible trade for the Astros. Costanzo is a power hitting 3Bman, but struck out 157 times in AA and is already 24 years old. Decent prospect, but Geary is a 31 year old average-at-best middle reliever and Bourne is a 4th outfielder with good speed.

That's why they stink, poor decisions on personnel matters.

Absolutely agree! Doesn't seem to matter who the GM is for the 'Stros.

[JJLinn29]

Ed Wade finally makes a good deal for the Phillies.

[Peace21]

Well remember Mets are dangling Billy Wagner.

[blueberryale77]

Are they really moving Myers back into the rotation or preparing to use him as trade bate? Please Andy MacPhail in the name of all that is holy do not let them trade him to us. The only upside of that would be making Miguel Tejada, Melvin Mora and Jay Payton all look like GREAT clubhouse guys.