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6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog: Mariners Acquire Ex-Dodger Prospect Franklin Gutierrez As Putz Goes To Metz In 12-Player, 3-Team Deal
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop: BIG TRADES: PUTZ TO METS, J-RICH TO SUNS
Batter's Box Interactive Magazine: Thursday Winter Meetings Update
Mariners Acquire Ex-Dodger Prospect Franklin Gutierrez As Putz Goes To Metz In 12-Player, 3-Team Deal
6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog —
... I like this deal from the Mariners' perspective; they needed to get younger, and moving Putz now amounts to a maximizing of value from a player who seems to be declining at a rather precipitous rate. Gutierrez makes up — sort of, but not really — for the unloading of Adam Jones last offseason, a point U.S.S. Mariner makes when analyzing the trade: ...
BIG TRADES: PUTZ TO METS, J-RICH TO SUNS
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop —
... New Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik showed he has bigger balls and brains than his predecessors in getting top outfield prospect Franklin Gutierrez from the Indians and OF Endy Chavez, pitchers Aaron Heilman and Justin Vargas, and three more prospects from the Mets. The Mets also got OF Jeremy Reed and another solid bullpen arm in Sean Green, while the Indians got whatever this is too much information to process. The important thing is that the poindexters at USS Mariner like it, so I like it, too. Mets fans have to be pleased that the bullpen won’t ...
Thursday Winter Meetings Update
Batter's Box Interactive Magazine —
... With regards to the 3 team deal summarized above, I like it most from the Mariners standpoint. Jack Zduriencik has acquitted himself well with his first transaction. And man, on days when Ichiro, Gutierrez and Chavez are all playing, that outfield defense is going to be unbelieveable. As Dave Cameron points out, those guys are going to make Carlos Silva and Jarrod Washburn look a lot better. ...
Cleveland's Return on the Gutz Trade
Ontario Street —
... With the obvious exception of Franklin, I don’t know much about the package of players Seattle received. In general, Mariners fans seem to like the trade, which is probably a good indicator of the value they got back. Since I’d like to focus on how the trade will impact the Tribe, I’ll leave the analysis of Seattle’s return in the hands of baseball guru Dave Cameron at U.S.S. Mariner. ...
Defense
McCovey Chronicles —
... without any idea how to get on base, the blognoscenti are on board. As they should be, mind you, but that doesn’t mean I’m happy about it. It used to be that you could look at a player’s on-base percentage and quickly determine if you were smarter than baseball executives. No more. ...
AL West SWOT
Baseball Analysts —
... stockpiled the farm system last year after trading away guys like Dan Haren, Nick Swisher and Rich Harden, this season it looks like Beane would like to take aim at the Angels and complement his youngsters with more established talent. It works in the abstract, but when guys on the open market don't want to join your team, the strategy can be a problem.
Seattle Mariners
Strengths: As David Cameron noted in this piece, trading J.J. Putz gave Seattle perhaps the best outfield defense of any ...
