Lugo Traded to O's

[BillySmith]

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/

Just thought it was worthy of a better title. Feel free to merge.

[PaulFolk]

http://interact.stltoday.com/blogzone/commishs-hot-stove/commishs-hot-stove/cardinal-beat-updates/2010/04/cardinals-deal-lugo/

[BillySmith]

Insurance if BRob's injury causes more problems.

If anyone watched BRob's barehander yesterday, I thought he looked awkward and landed weird after making the throw. I hope he's okay but he's out of the lineup today.

[PaulFolk]

I guess this means Andino is off the team.

[NewMarketSean]

Is Lugo any better than Justin Turner?

[clapdiddy]

This is quite unexpected. I'm wondering if they had been contemplating this move and maybe Andino's performance yesterday may have pushed them "over the edge"?

[Sanfran327]

Is Lugo any better than Robert Andino?

Fixed that for you...

[hatepaste]

Fixed that for you...

Doesn't matter answer is yes to both questions.

[BillySmith]

I haven't read anyone raving about his defense. Quite the opposite. But he's a far superior bat than Andino and will improve our bench quite a bit.

Now I guess Andy is working the phones on Andino, how is out of options.

[ChaosLex]

Two words: playoff tickets

[isestrex]

April Fools? <img src="http://usera.ImageCave.com/isestrex/Emoticons/huh.gif">

[hatepaste]

I haven't read anyone raving about his defense. Quite the opposite. But he's a far superior bat than Andino and will improve our bench quite a bit.

Now I guess Andy is working the phones on Andino, how is out of options.

To Pittsburgh for Hayden Penn?

I'm going to guess we sent a RP to St. Louis for Lugo. Maybe Albers

[mefogus]

According to my count, Lugo has 4 of 5 Building Blocks of Clubhouse Chemistry: Veteranicity, Spunkitude, Mentorocity, and Historicity. If we could find a star player that he looks like then he'd be 5/5.

:m

[hatepaste]

To Pittsburgh for Hayden Penn?

I'm going to guess we sent a RP to St. Louis for Lugo. Maybe Albers

No I correct myself, according to Roch:

Update: Nevermind. I just filed this entry and saw the the Orioles acquired Julio Lugo for a PTBNL. So I really should have stayed behind.

[Hank Scorpio]

Counting down the inevitable "Print the playoff tickets, baby!!!!!!" from Milligan, who's entirely too cool for our comprehension.