Report: Orioles interested in Padres Andrew Cashner

[Number5]

Shields isn't worth his contract.

No way I give up Bundy ++ just so I can acquire an albatross.

If the Padres manage to find a sucker for Shields they will have to eat money to get anything more than a warm body.

:agree:

[weams]

Shields isn't worth his contract.

No way I give up Bundy ++ just so I can acquire an albatross.

If the Padres manage to find a sucker for Shields they will have to eat money to get anything more than a warm body.

San Diego only paid 10 million for his 0.2 WAR season. It's a poison pill deal as well. They will never trade him. Even with the escalation of pitching prices.

[Can_of_corn]

San Diego only paid 10 million for his 0.2 WAR season. It's a poison pill deal as well. They will never trade him. Even with the escalation of pitching prices.

You know I try and avoid dealing in absolutes but it will certainly take a desperate GM to take over that contract.

[Ripken]

Cashner is a pretty boring add. Not for anything of real value - so no way I give Mancini.

[Machado13]

After looking at his home-road splits, even for his good years in '13-'14, he's going to be a 4.00 to 4.50 ERA pitcher in Camden Yards, probably like what Ubaldo Jimenez/Kevin Gausman gave us last year. I think the woeful defense in San Diego hurt Cashner in 2015.

Would rather spend the money on Latos (again provided his knee is ok), but there is a bargain price for which I go get Cashner. I don't think he's any worse than Ian Kennedy and he somehow got 5 yr, $70 mil.

I'm ok with it as a bargain price but if that was the case, he would have been dealt by now.

Preller is trying to get "hey look this is a former top prospect" type value for him which would be major overpay. The guy never learned how to pitch despite his arm. He's got the stuff, but he can't pitch and he's mentally weak so IMO he would get destroyed in AL east.

[bratzenboy]

wouldn't give up any "top" prospects for cashner

[Tx Oriole]

Wow... I'm not in on this Cashner guy at all... Padres are reportedly open to trading James Shields. If we're willing to give up Bundy along with several other players, then we might be able to get him.

Why get another mediocre pitcher in Cashner when we could potentially get Shields for three years.

It depends on the cost to the O's. Shields will be expensive. IMO

[Can_of_corn]

Warming up to the idea of Cashner. He averages about 9 strikeouts per start. Walk year. Lot of incentive. Would not give up Mancini, Sisco, Hess or Reyes or last years draft, but anyone else is fine.

I'm down enough on Stewart that I would at least consider it.

[Can_of_corn]

It depends on the cost to the O's. Shields will be expensive. IMO

I'd call over 20 million a year expensive.

It's only a borderline fair deal if he has a strong rebound.

[Redskins Rick]

San Diego only paid 10 million for his 0.2 WAR season. It's a poison pill deal as well. They will never trade him. Even with the escalation of pitching prices.

According to BBREF, his WAR was 1.9, his WAA was .2

[weams]

According to BBREF, his WAR was 1.9, his WAA was .2

Good catch. That's where I got it from.

[Redskins Rick]

Good catch. That's where I got it from.

Which doesn't change the fact, that at 16 million, he is an expensive gamble.

[Camden_yardbird]

Cashner isn't likely to net a QO. At the deadline he is either worthless (due to a bad season) or could be traded for a lower level prospect who won't be helping his team for the playoff run. Seems to me it's a dangerous game SD is playing. This is their last opportunity to get near MLB talent for him. I feel like if you put together two of the near ready MLB players the Orioles have that SD should take it. Alvarez, Walker, Wright, Wilson, Lee, Drake, etc.

[Creamsicle]

I can't wait to see the headline "Orioles Paredes Cash Trade"

[OFFNY]

I can't wait to see the headline, "Orioles Paredes Cash Trade"

In July of 1987, the NY Daily News' back page headline read:

"Cash Better Than Czech"

Pat Cash had just defeated Ivan Lendl in the finals of that year's Wimbledon Open.