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Goddamnit, Steve Phillips. Piss in a cup! I don't want to hear Ray Ray's thoughts right now.
It's the ing trade deadline, nobody gives a rat's ass about Garnett until an hour from now.
Goddamnit, Steve Phillips. Piss in a cup! I don't want to hear Ray Ray's thoughts right now.
no ! are you watching espn2? I moved to that channel specifically becauese I thought there was a whole hour of coverage until the deadline. What the is this ??!!? I don't want to hear Ray Ray talk about how he has never played with a dominant big man. I guess he has only had sand and submissive big men in his vagina, then!
And I hate that I can't get XM 175 online.
Hmmm...Dodgers looking at Troy Percival from the Cards according to Stark.
I thought Percival's arm had fallen off.
Wow. BoSox picking up the 3.6M in Gagne's performance bonuses.
What was the Mateo deal? I was on the phone.
That was more than likely the only way to get Gagne to waive the no-trade clause.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2955966
Red Sox upgrade bullpen with Gagne deal
ESPN.com news services
Updated: July 31, 2007, 4:06 PM ET
Eric Gagne is headed to Boston to bolster the Red Sox's bullpen.
Sources told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney that the Red Sox and Rangers agreed in principle on a deal for Texas' closer. In exchange, Boston will send pitcher Kason Gabbard and minor leaguer outfielders Engel Beltre and David Murphy to the Rangers.
Gagne waived his no-trade clause to join the American League East leaders and agreed to be Boston's set-up man after the Red Sox restructured the reliever's contract. Boston will pick up $2.1 million in Gagne's performance bonuses, while the Rangers will pay $400,000.
Gagne joins a bullpen that includes All-Star closer Jonathan Papelbon and ranks as having the best ERA in the majors (2.74) and fewest blown saves (four).
Gagne is 2-0 this season with a 2.16 ERA and 16 saves as the Texas Rangers closer.
This Gagne trade is ing bull for my fantasy team goddamnit
That's on you.
What team was going to trade for him where he could be a closer? Even if he stayed with Texas, he wasn't going to get you a ton of saves that would have moved you up the ladder a whole lot. Where are you as far as saves go? If you're at or near the bottom, sacrifice saves for something to get you over the top.
You should have traded him two/three weeks ago. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don't.
I traded Dunn in a NL-only league for Garrett Atkins because I was sure Dunn would go to the AL or a pitcher's park. I was in need of a 3B, so I took my chances.
Has anybody mentioned how ungodly good this makes the Sox bullpen now?
You'd better score in the first six, because Okajima, Gagne, Papelbon is scary.
I have a lot of doubts about Schilling. We'll just have to see.
And yes, don't jinx it!
I'm near the bottom in total saves throughout the year, but after I added Kevin Gregg I was having Papelbon, Isirnghausen, and Gagne dominate every week for the past couple of months, then I added Corpas and I've been not having to worry about saves at all once thursday hit. Hopefully Danny Wheeler gets a closing spot somewhere, be it Seattle or Tampa
Having Papelbon, Izzy and Corpas is pretty good.
Package Gagne to somebody that needs WHIP or ERA in your league for a small need you have.
Analysis of the deal from MLB.TV says "Theo's robbed the Rangers."
Robbed the Rangers for a two-month rental?
He's saying that since BOS gave up "their 7th starter" for the chance to lock up that bullpen, that's how they got by.Robbed the Rangers for a two-month rental?
I see. But saying that the Rangers got fleeced implies they got nothing in return for Gagne. I think they got a great deal, three long-term players (one MLB-ready) is better than the one or two sandwich picks they would have gotten for him.
But yeah, considering the price I think the Sox just punched their ticket to a pennant, maybe more. I was surprised by how stubborn the Skanks were, they are going to have trouble even getting into the playoffs now, imho.
Ugh
yeah but Boston's 7th starter is probably our 3rd.
i think this was a great deal, even if he wanted to stay I doubt a realistic deal would have happened, especially considering Gagne's agent is The Baseball Anti-Christ.
clearly the beast in the AL...
wait I meant best, but beast works too..
I guess the yanks really like Cabrera..
They'll need that bullpen, because outside of Beckett, their SP hasn't exactly been stellar.
BTW, Boston did extremely well in this trade. Gabbard is a #4 at best and the two prospects they gave up aren't even close to being their best/top prospects.
Hey how anyone can say the Rangers got the bad end of this deal is beyond me...
They are having their usual season and the guy was signed for one year to see if he had anything. They even got Gagne to accept the trade to the team they wanted him to go to.
It's a win win for the Rangers....
Not that they'll stop sucking anytime soon or anything, no matter how good a trade they make. And I say this as a life long RangerFan.
Pitching in a decade?
They've never had pitching...they've had a couple of good pitchers scattered around 3 decades...but they've never had good pitching.
But they at least used to be fun to watch...most of the time.
I wish someone would shoot Tim Hicks in the head...nothing personal or anything. IT'd just be the best way he could take one for the team(pointblanksawedoffshotgun).
Anyway...Gagne will probably be back next season if the Rangers want him. He's not going to stay in Boston and be a setup man.
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