MLB trade deadline 2012

[Mays-Fan]

Ichiro as a Yankee - OPS = .618.

SSS, but I think we should be happy we didn't get him.

Pence will pick it up.

 

[gp956]

Perhaps a big misplay on Demptser by the Dodgers.

But then, in the final half-hour, Dempster came to understand that the Chicago Cubs couldn’t pull off a trade with his preferred team, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Earlier in the day, he had told the Cubs he would waive his no-trade rights for the Rangers or New York Yankees but to keep trying for the Dodgers.

Sitting in the Cubs offices — yes, he actually was there, watching club executives try to move him — Dempster saw how the Dodgers sought to exploit their leverage, refused to budge on talent, sought to make the Cubs blink.

In the final half-hour or so before the deadline, he finally allowed the Cubs to open up the process. The Cubs quickly engaged the Rangers and Yankees. And that is the abbreviated version of how Dempster went to the Rangers for Class A third baseman Christian Villanueva and Class A right-hander Kyle Hendricks.

There is plenty more to tell.

Billingsley going down, and now Kershaw, perhaps, following him, magnifies Agent Ned's error in not getting Demptster at the trading deadline.

 

[msgkings322]

Billingsley going down, and now Kershaw, perhaps, following him, magnifies Agent Ned's error in not getting Demptster at the trading deadline.

Bad GM-ing by Agent Ned or bad luck (losing Bills and Cy Young, still had them at trade deadline)