Johnson may be traded per Rosenthal (Update: Johnson trade to A's for Weeks)

[weams]

Has anyone considered that our new pitching coach may not have wanted to be locked in to Jim Johnson as his closer?

[weams]

Uh, yeah.

I don't know. Did anyone else have info on who we may get?

[Ripken]

I don't know. Did anyone else have info on who we may get?

Sorry. I appreciated the post. I just don't care for any of those players...

[weams]

Sorry. I appreciated the post. I just don't care for any of those players...

Got it. My badness.

[Capn Vivi]

According to an industry source, two names that have been floated as the possible player to be named coming to the Orioles from Oakland are corner infielder Miles Head and right-handed pitcher Blake Hassebrock.

The 22-year-old Head was Oakland's minor league Player of the Year when he batted .333 with 23 homers and 84 RBIs in 2012. But in 40 Double-A games in 2013 he hit just .196. Still, he has a career minor league slash line of .286/.355/.472. Head was drafted in round 26 by Boston in 2009 and traded to Oakland in the December 2011 deal that sent Andrew Bailey to Boston.

The 24-year-old Hassebrock, Oakland's eighth-round pick in 2010, went 2-6 with a 4.77 ERA in 2013 between Single-A and Double-A. He throws in the low to mid 90s.

Another possibility is reportedly first baseman Anthony Aliotti. The 26-year-old lefty hitter batted .324 with 14 homers and 71 RBIs in 2013 between Double and Triple-A for Oakland.

source - Steve Melewski

Props to sportsfan8703 for pulling these names out of thin air shortly after the trade was completed!

Like many others on this site, I believe his source was the internet.

Also found 3 more. So that brings it to 5 guys the A's left exposed. Possible ptbnl's

1B Anthony Aliotti AAA

3B Miles Head AA

SP Blake Hassebrock AA

RP Jeff Urlaub AA

RP Seth Frankoff A+

[Roll Tide]

I said earlier Miles Head is probably a good risk.

[Guest]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Oakland talking with multiple teams about Brett Anderson, an attractive option among the starting pitchers available. Owed $8m for '14.</p>— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) <a href="

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Just don't get why we didn't do a 1-1 still save 2m

[CA-ORIOLE]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Oakland talking with multiple teams about Brett Anderson, an attractive option among the starting pitchers available. Owed $8m for '14.</p>— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) <a href="

">December 4, 2013</a></blockquote>

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Just don't get why we didn't do a 1-1 still save 2m

Sounded like nobody on here wanted anything to do with him.

[Stotle]

Well actually probably because Oakland thinks Anderson is worth more than Johnson.

This is accurate, both in that OAK believes Anderson is worth more than Johnson and other teams will be willing to pay more in trade for Anderson than they would have for Johnson.

[weams]

This is accurate, both in that OAK believes Anderson is worth more than Johnson and other teams will be willing to pay more in trade for Anderson than they would have for Johnson.

Well that does make sense.

[TonySoprano]

Well actually probably because Oakland thinks Anderson is worth more than Johnson.

Oakland's choices: 1) Pay Johnson net $2M (after trading Anderson to the Orioles); 2) Pay Johnson $10M, dump Weeks+ptbnl, pick up whatever they can get for Anderson.

[luismatos4prez]

What kind of package will Anderson fetch for Oakland? He hasn't logged 100 IP since 2010.

[RichmondVA Orio]

Is it possible the PTBNL could be an exposed Oriole that Oakland drafts in the Rule 5?

[TonySoprano]

Is it possible the PTBNL could be an exposed Oriole that Oakland drafts in the Rule 5?

I doubt it because we still had open 40-man slots to stash such a player.

[RichmondVA Orio]

I doubt it because we still had open 40-man slots to stash such a player.

We do now, but will we at the time of the draft?

I feel like this strategy has been used before and wanted to know if such a method would fall within the rules.