Astros Pull Wandy Rodriguez Off Waivers, No Trade
by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 24, 2011 6:10 PM MDT
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PrintRichard Justice recently reported that the Astros have pulled the plug on trade talks with the Rockies on left-handed starter Wandy Rodriguez, 17 hours before the 48-hour window of negotiations closed. That report from Justice has since been verified by every baseball reporter that owns a phone.
The buzz from the outset of negotiations was that the Astros were demanding the Rockies take on all of Wandy Rodriguez' salary, which amounts to about $37 million through 2014. Dan O'Dowd was reportedly happy to oblige with that portion of the deal. However, Ed Wade was also asking the Rockies to include one of their top prospects, namely Wilin Rosario, or laughably, Drew Pomeranz.
Understandably, Dan O'Dowd wasn't too keen on such a transaction. The Astros are in no hurry to trade Rodriguez, and it made more sense from the beginning for Houston to wait until the offseason with more suitors bidding for the 32-year-old's services unless the Rockies made a foolhardy desperate lunge. The Rockies might revisit acquiring Rodriguez in three and a half months. In the end, it was two GMs approaching a deal from extremely different sides that seemed to have little hope of finding common ground.
This move means Rodriguez will be staying put in Houston the remainder of the season and cannot be traded to the Rockies or any other team until the offseason.
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Ed Wade can kiss off if he wants that kind of return.
FFFFFFFFFFF.
/it is a new beginning, right?
by The Lodo Magic Man on Aug 24, 2011 6:17 PM MDT via mobile reply actions
I'd be mad too
if I just lost a game on a walk-off wild pitch thrown by a pitcher that I acquired from the team that just beat/swept us and who has been crappy in the bigs… but not that mad.
God, stop being so emotional Eddie.
"These are thin mints. I put them in the freezer. My favorites. So good."
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The Astros got Aneury from the Rays in the Rule 5 draft, not the Rockies.
Although he was pretty much a product of our development system.
you and your facts
ooooo he was for Hammel wasn’t he? It’s all coming back now…
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Our development system?
Does this mean that we teach them to throw walk off wild pitches to lose the game?
Prediction----> Cargo and Tulo will both have over 30 homers this year
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yep, Matzek is learning well
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 24, 2011 7:49 PM MDT via mobile up reply actions
he's a bright student, using walkoff HBP as well
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Damn, I was hoping they'd give him away ...
Would have been useful as an innings eater the rest of the season, then next year until JDLR comes back. Then we could have re-traded him.
Oh well. Que sera sera.
by BostonTransplant on Aug 24, 2011 6:37 PM MDT reply actions
Pomeranz??
Hysterical laughter
Did Wade suffer some sort of brain injury during that fight with Shawn Chacon?
In Tulo We Trust
So it turns out that this plan of distracting the opposing pitcher with trade rumors worked brilliantly.
Any chance we can start some Ted Lilly gossip by Friday?
dan put that plan in place so deftly, It's as if he has seen it in action before
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 24, 2011 6:49 PM MDT via mobile up reply actions
Boom roasted.
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by The Toddfather's Goatee on Aug 24, 2011 9:40 PM MDT up reply actions
Eh, Wade just put the guy on waivers
To see if anyone who’s actually in the race would fall at his feet with a stupid-large offer.
Once it was the Rockies who put in the successful claim, the chances of that weren’t very good. Can’t really be critical of Wade for asking for the moon.
Can’t really be critical of Wade for asking for the moon
While acknowledging the truth to your statement in general and the above quote in particular, I must inform you that I intend to utilize my natural right to ‘criticize Wade for asking for the moon’ to the fullest extent as legally permissible.
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by Resolution on Aug 24, 2011 7:02 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
Well please
don’t take “can’t” too literally. You can say whatever you want about Ed Wade.
But maybe he’s just a kind-hearted GM who wants his whole roster to see postseason play, so he was hoping Wandy would slip to a team higher in the standings.
After all, what can you do when you one decent player left, and the Phillies don’t want him?
(Actually I qualify that by saying Bogusevic looks like a beast in the making…)
by Northsider1964 on Aug 24, 2011 7:10 PM MDT up reply actions
However, we can be critical of Ed Wade simply because he's Ed Wade
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by Paleface Destro on Aug 24, 2011 7:03 PM MDT up reply actions
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
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As much I would love to have Wandy
He is not anywhere worth to what Wade is asking. A mid prospect like Fredrich and some added supplement prices but not a top teir prospect (especally that and eating the whole contract). Too bad this didn’t work out, was nice to think about though
Colorado Offense: Making bad pitchers look like CY Young Winners.
by Colsportsfan on Aug 24, 2011 7:12 PM MDT via mobile reply actions
Hey here's a question to ponder
When was the last time the Rockies won two consecutive day games?
Without looking, I’m going to guess it was that sweep of the day-day doubleheader with the Mets in mid-April.
I don't think
The Rockies had a sweep since April
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by Colsportsfan on Aug 24, 2011 7:22 PM MDT via mobile up reply actions
I'm not even talking sweep
I’m just saying, won two consective day games – as in, we won on Wednesday afternoon and then again on the following Saturday or Sunday.
I really don’t remember when this last happened, except in that weird twin bill with the Mets.
by Northsider1964 on Aug 24, 2011 7:32 PM MDT up reply actions
I believe this is three consecutive day games won, is it not?
Last Saturday was a day game, too.
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by Paleface Destro on Aug 24, 2011 8:01 PM MDT up reply actions
Hey, you're right
Time to declare, “Rockies on Day Game Hot Streak”
by Northsider1964 on Aug 24, 2011 8:46 PM MDT up reply actions
Warm up the bubbly!
Rocktober, here we come!
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by Paleface Destro on Aug 24, 2011 8:52 PM MDT up reply actions
No, see, it would be warm
Because 2011
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by Paleface Destro on Aug 25, 2011 11:10 AM MDT up reply actions
Bummed
I really wanted Wandy. I think he’s a very underrated pitcher and has performed very well for an incredibly crappy team. Oh well.
Don't feel too bad, if we really want him we have another crack at him in the offseason
personally I would rather throw the same amount of money we would spend on Wandy at Kuroda in FA see if we could get him to bite. I wouldn’t mind if we threw a couple bucks at Piniero or some similar wormburner to tide us over untill the calvalry arrives.
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by TomCat009 on Aug 25, 2011 7:56 AM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
Slighty unrelated to this
but can anyone think of a single time that O’Dowd has traded a top prospect?
I know we’ve rarely been in that position as a franchise, but I find it odd that he’s never made such a move.
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figgins?
"These are thin mints. I put them in the freezer. My favorites. So good."
--Reds outfielder Adam Dunn, on the girl scout cookies he keeps in his locker
not really my definition of "top prospect"
I mean someone who is tops in our system, nationally known, and succeeding in the minors.
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I was thinking Jake Westbrook
but that was Gebhardt’s doing
by WanderingRoxFan on Aug 24, 2011 7:56 PM MDT up reply actions
He really hasn't. The closest off the top of my head....
would be Gerut and Bard for Jacob Cruz. Ouch.
For the most part, he’s been good about keeping top prospects. Unfortunately, many of those prospects never got beyond the prospect stage.
Jack Cust?
Or was he an MiLB?
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I don't think so
and I do wish he would have. Of course he’s also been reluctant to trade guys who were showing signs of decline (Atkins/Hawpe), with a better/cheaper option waiting in the wings. That’s what made the Ubaldo trade so surprising for me. He actually traded somebody for reasons other than being too expensive.
OT: How will they pay the bills?
There was an unofficial headcount of 347 fans in the stands for the first pitch of Wednesday’s doubleheader at Sun Life Stadium. Cohen counted five sections with three or fewer people in it and three completely empty sections. The Marlins haven’t announced the official attendance, but it likely won’t challenge the record of the smallest crowd in modern history.
Link
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/347-fans-Hurricane-Irene-wipes-out-Marlins-atte?urn=mlb-wp17025
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I could have swore I remember reading on MLBTR
sometime in mid-July, that the Astros reportedly wanted as much for Wandy as we were asking for Ubaldo. It sounded so ridiculous, I wasn’t sure if it was actually true. But I guess if they legit just asked for Pomeranz, it might have really been. Doesn’t make it any less hilarious, but still interesting.
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by Cargo's Ball Sack5 on Aug 24, 2011 8:25 PM MDT reply actions
Ubaldo was better. That is why we was asking for so much.
He does have one of these.
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7514219
Prediction----> Cargo and Tulo will both have over 30 homers this year
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Found the article
The Astros are asking for as much in return for Wandy Rodriguez as the Rockies are for Ubaldo Jimenez. General manager Ed Wade is in a difficult position, caught between an ownership change.
Though that was followed up by this about a week later…
An AL executive told Joel Sherman of the New York Post that while the Astros asked for a big return for lefty Wandy Rodriguez a few weeks back, they now “will take little at deadline to get rid of most of his contract”
Guess that wasn’t completely true either.
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by Cargo's Ball Sack5 on Aug 24, 2011 8:43 PM MDT up reply actions
Link fail
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/07/gammons-on-trade-market.htm
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by Cargo's Ball Sack5 on Aug 24, 2011 8:44 PM MDT up reply actions
Looka t this way
The Rox putting in a claim kept Wandy from going to the Yankees. So some good was done.
I'm happy.
I didn’t think Wandy was a good fit in a Rockies uniform in the first place. I didn’t think he was worth Chad Bettis, let alone Pomeranz/Rosario.
I’m so happy DOD isn’t stupid.
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Pomeranz > Wandy
And I’m talking about right now
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by Junction Rox on Aug 24, 2011 10:02 PM MDT up reply actions
Lets check WAR over the next 3 years
While I am not a huge fan of WAR, someone should make a note in their notebook to follow WAR for Pomeranz, Willin and Wandy over the next three years. I like Wandy too, but he is over 30, over paid, and has a sub .500 career record. I think we will be glad over the next three years that we didnt complete this deal (and I wanted Wandy here). Wandy is a #3-4 in most rotations. Pomeranz could be (all potential still) a 1 or 2. Willin is a power hitting catcher who game calling skills have improved a lot this summer. Both are far more valueable. I understand Wade asking for them and Tulo, CarGo, and Dinger in the trade. But after the laughter stopped he should have inquired about Hammel and Pacheco and been very happy.
Good news, still have money to go after David Wright in the off-season.
Agreed.
I’m droolin’ for David Wright. Him and Tulo on one side of the infield?
OMGOD
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by CentralCaliRox on Aug 24, 2011 10:04 PM MDT up reply actions
wright isn't a free agent and it's very unlikely the mets move him
unless they need to unload his salary to afford a reyes extension
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Never say never.
The Rockies did just trade ubaldo jimenez.
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by CentralCaliRox on Aug 24, 2011 10:10 PM MDT up reply actions
yeah i'd pretty much be willing to listen on anyone not named white, pomeranz, or arenado if wright were involved
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I'd listen on White and keep Rosario.
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