Winter Meetings Day 2: Smoke and Mirrors begins
posted in 2007-08 offseason, trade rumors |Ian has been all over this today. I have been away from my computer.
Apparently the Tigers are discussing a deal with Florida involving either Dontrelle Willis and possibly Miguel Cabrera. Ken Rosenthal first reported this. But the Tigers beat writers caught on too, so he’s not waving at airplanes here. The asking price is Cameron Maybin, Andrew Miller and quite likely, more.
The question is, what can Detroit offer that is better than other offers? I’m not sure. I think the Angels can, if they wish, outbid the Tigers here with Howie Kendrick and several other young players. Past the two prospects, I don’t really know that Detroit has much left in the minors to add in. Maybe a major leaguer.
Now my thought, is that Cabrera and Willis are obviously great players. Cabrera, if you can lock him up, can be a real big franchise player. Willis can definitely help the Tigers starting pitching, as he should bounce back from a lackluster 2007. It would undoubtedly make 2008 pretty exciting. I’m not sure if I’d want to do it, though, without one of the two Marlins being signed to a multiyear deal. Cabrera, one of (or the?) game’s best young slugger could take over at third and return Brandon Inge to a superutilityman role.
Update: Far as I can tell, both Cabrera and Willis are free agents after 2009.
The other trade rumor out there is that the Oakland A’s would like both Maybin and Miller for Dan Haren. If they just want Miller, I do it. I’m a Haren fan, though. He’s been awesome in Oakland. But I don’t give up both prospects, and I really would prefer to trade pitcher for pitcher there.
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Completely agree with you about Haren. I would trade Miller for him in a heartbeat, but it would be difficult to part with both Miller and Maybin. Not sure I could do that. Also I saw a story on the SF Chronicle website (and I think that I just heard ESPN News talking about it) that Bonds contacted Leyland about playing for Detroit this year.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/04/SPRMTNE2S.DTL
Great, they just traded away the future for a lefty who gets knocked around in the NL and a fat third basemen a year after signing Inge to an extension.
I have no reason to doubt Dave Dombrowski yet, but I am not a fan of this move right now.
Holy shit!!! I don’t know about this, I like who we are getting, but miller AND maybin…..hmmm