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El Gordo Hangout Grand Counsel

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I said this earlier and didn't get much of a response.

I'm curious, who would you posters rather have on the O's: Pie or Reimold?

I couldn't choose at this point. They both are impressive. I need to see more of Pie before I could choose, but my gut says he could be the better player.
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I said this earlier and didn't get much of a response.

I'm curious, who would you posters rather have on the O's: Pie or Reimold?

Both of them. Jones is the guy to trade if you can get back what you want for him. He carries the most trade value, and Pie is the better CFer who has recently emerged as an equal, if not better, offensive player. Jones is from San Diego, the deal would appeal to the Pads and Jones as well. Jones and a lesser young pitcher like Hernandez, should be enough to get us Blanks and Headley. I like that deal.

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El Gordo Hangout Grand Counsel

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Both of them. Jones is the guy to trade if you can get back what you want for him. He carries the most trade value, and Pie is the better CFer who has recently emerged as an equal, if not better, offensive player. Jones is from San Diego, the deal would appeal to the Pads and Jones as well. Jones and a lesser young pitcher like Hernandez, should be enough to get us Blanks and Headley. I like that deal.
We don't need Headley, we have Bell. Keep the pitcher just trade Jones.
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I'm not as sold on Bell as everyone else. After I see half a season of AAA where he can post at least a .250 average from the right side. Maybe Headley can play SS? :D
I'm not sold on Headley. If he could, ply SS, don't you think they would prefer him to Eckstein. Whoops! I forgot, Eckstein has much mojo.:mwahaha:
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We don't need Headley, we have Bell. Keep the pitcher just trade Jones.

El Gordo, I usually agree with you. But I would want the whole deal with Headley coming back to us as well. Bell is at least a half season away, his fielding is still an issue and he can't (as of yet) hit left handed pitching at all in the MiL's. I would give Bell all the time he needs in Norfolk to improve his overall game before promoting him to Baltimore. Headley can play 3B until such time, and he has already demonstrated some versatility by playing OF in SD. I can't see why Headley would not also provide some protection for first base, as I see Brandon Snyder in the same boat as Bell. If we did this deal with Headley included, we could dump Wigginton for a guy who can actually play baseball.

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El Gordo Hangout Grand Counsel

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El Gordo, I usually agree with you. But I would want the whole deal with Headley coming back to us as well. Bell is at least a half season away, his fielding is still an issue and he can't (as of yet) hit left handed pitching at all in the MiL's. I would give Bell all the time he needs in Norfolk to improve his overall game before promoting him to Baltimore. Headley can play 3B until such time, and he has already demonstrated some versatility by playing OF in SD. I can't see why Headley would not also provide some protection for first base, as I see Brandon Snyder in the same boat as Bell. If we did this deal with Headley included, we could dump Wigginton for a guy who can actually play baseball.
I don't think Headley is worth losing a SP like DH. I'd rather sign DeRosa for a 3B stopgap.
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Per FanGraphs

Reimold (85 games)Season	Team		Batting	  Fielding    Replacement    Positional	  RAR	 WAR	Dollars2009	Orioles		10.1	   -8.8		13.0		-5.2	  9.1	 0.9	[b]$4.1[/b]	Blanks (54 games)Season	Team		Batting	  Fielding    Replacement    Positional	  RAR	 WAR	Dollars2009	Padres		7.9	   -1.5	         5.7		-2.9	  9.3    0.9	[b]$4.2[/b]
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What do you think Kyle Blanks Ceiling is?

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My buddy Jim Callis of Baseball America tells me he's a solid regular. I think he's a 25-homer, 90-RBI type guy. He did a pretty nice job for the Padres this year even though they forced him to play left field. By the way, today is Kyle Blanks' 23rd birthday. Happy birthday, Big Guy?

http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/28236/mlb-with-jerry-crasnick

From the Jerry Crasnick ESPN baseball chat today

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http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/28236/mlb-with-jerry-crasnick

My buddy Jim Callis of Baseball America tells me he's a solid regular. I think he's a 25-homer, 90-RBI type guy. He did a pretty nice job for the Padres this year even though they forced him to play left field. By the way, today is Kyle Blanks' 23rd birthday. Happy birthday, Big Guy?

From the Jerry Crasnick ESPN baseball chat today

If that's his ceiling, I wouldn't want to swap Reimold even up. Heck, "25 HRs, solid regular" is a legitimate projection for Reimold next season. Reimold's ceiling is higher than that (but so is Blanks's, sorry Callis).

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If that's his ceiling, I wouldn't want to swap Reimold even up. Heck, "25 HRs, solid regular" is a legitimate projection for Reimold next season. Reimold's ceiling is higher than that (but so is Blanks's, sorry Callis).

I agree with everything you said. Maybe, he was referring to what he is projected to be and not his ceiling. However, if that is his ceiling I defiantly would not throw anything else into a trade for him.

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Interesting... Blanks +ECab for Jones anyone? We've had DCab, FCab, I think it's time.
We could go for Asdrubel Cabrera to create the DFA Cabrera trifecta.

Sorry, terrible joke.

In all seriousness, I would love to do a trade for these two players (ECab and Blanks).

A super fast SS who would clearly benefit from OPACY and a 1B who would also clearly benefit from OPACY.

We all know PETCO is not hitter friendly, yet oddly enough it is bee friendly.

(Insert random buzz word joke here)

I'd give them Reimold, Guthrie (who will thrive there) and....

Who would be the 3rd player that gets that done?

Izturis?

Andino?

We have to have an expendable player that they would want to make that deal.

Who is it?

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