azcentral.com - 12/20/2008
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slideshow Profile: Miguel Montero The Diamondbacks have spent significant energy this off-season gauging the trading market for catchers, trying to find a way to use their excess at the position to strengthen another area. For a while, it seemed certain they would move one of their catchers, ...
mlbtraderumors.com - 12/22/2008
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The latest blog post from ESPN's Peter Gammons
is up. Gammons talked to a source close to...
Mark Teixeira who says Tex and the Red Sox are not that far apart. The Yankees backed off on the Mike Cameron trade because Melky Cabrera is showing ...
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Gammons' Latest: Teixeira, Cameron, Montero
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D'Backs Rumors: Clark, Montero, Snyder
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
... Piecoro also found that Byrnes isn't likely to trade Miguel Montero. The D'Backs GM said that "nothing in trade exceeds the value of keeping both" Montero and Chris Snyder, so he'll hold onto them. ...
Weekend Update
Fanster.com —
... Looks like the team has, for the moment, given up on trading Miguel Montero or Chris Snyder, Josh Byrnes now saying, "I think the odds have shifted. We've spent a lot of the off-season assessing and nothing has motivated us to this point. At some point, you have to say, 'OK, we kicked the tires and nothing in trade exceeds the value of keeping both, so we'll keep them both.'" No rush on this front, though it'll be interesting to see if the mooted long-term deal for Snyder gets completed; if so, then we will probably be looking to turn Montero into something else. Of course, it ...
Weekend Update
AZ Snakepit —
... Looks like the team has, for the moment, given up on trading Miguel Montero or Chris Snyder, Josh Byrnes now saying, "I think the odds have shifted. We've spent a lot of the off-season assessing and nothing has motivated us to this point. At some point, you have to say, 'OK, we kicked the tires and nothing in trade exceeds the value of keeping both, so we'll keep them both.'" No rush on this front, though it'll be interesting to see if the mooted long-term deal for Snyder gets completed; if so, then we will probably be looking to turn Montero into something else. ...
Red Sox focused on aquiring D-Backs’ Montero
Fanster.com —
... league level. He is an advanced pitcher for his age, but there’s some room for improvement. He has an arsenal of three pitches that could be big-league caliber: a 90-93 mph four-seam fastball that tops out around 95 mph, a very good 12-6 hard breaking curve, and an excellent circle changeup with plus potential.
This seems to go against what Arizona general manager Josh Byrnes’ stance that the team would keep Montero. ...
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