Alternate History Revisited?

by R.J. Anderson on Jul 22, 2008 12:49 PM EDT

From MLBTR, apparently the Braves might be calling on behalf of Mark Teixeira, per CBS Sportsline:

Atlanta officials insist that no decision has yet been made, and that as of yet they haven't offered Teixeira to anyone. They say that their inclination is to go for it, but they also admit that they've been making lists of possible Teixeira trading partners.

Boston is on the list, and so are the Angels and Rays. The Braves still think Arizona could become involved, too -- if they put Teixeira on the market.

If you'll remember back to that faithful 2001 draft where the Rays were choosing third the team was forced to take Dewon Brazelton after missing out on a top two pick thanks to a canceled game (thanks hurricane season!). Teixeira's agent Scott Boras advised the Minnesota Twins and the Rays alike to not select his client or otherwise face wasting a pick. Teixeira now sits a few months from free agency in which he'll almost certainly poach a contract nearly tripling Carlos Pena's 24 million dollar deal from a team in New York or someone like Seattle.

Without stating the issues in trading and re-signing prices Teixeira is a very good ballplayer, but honestly there is no way this makes sense for the Rays unless the Braves are simply dumping him, and honestly why should they?

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Why does this have to include Pena?

The Bravos need arms in a BIG way. Why not let them pick two of EJax, Neimann, Hammell or Hellickson? They can also have Dan Johnson as he’ll never play with us. Let Tex and Pena rotate at DH, 1B and take the 2 picks to help reload. I like this deal, Tex hitting cleanup solves a lot of our run scoring problems. We can still platoon in RF. I do this if I’m the Rays. No need to include Pena.

by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Jul 22, 2008 3:20 PM EDT 0 recs

Who said this includes Pena in a trade?

by R.J. Anderson on Jul 22, 2008 3:24 PM EDT up 0 recs

Braves would want more than this

Teixeira is going to be class A when he signs elsewhere, which means 2 sandwich picks. No two from that list + Dan Johnson is worth that.

by kericr on Jul 22, 2008 6:01 PM EDT up 0 recs

The Braves

dont seem to be an organization that vaules picks the way the Rays and some other do. Remember, they gave up their first round pick to sign Tom Glavine. I would bet they would value major league ready arms like Neimann, Sonny, EJax just as much as those two picks.

by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Jul 23, 2008 8:09 AM EDT up 0 recs

and

maybe get a bullpen arm with Tex to help us there.

by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Jul 22, 2008 3:21 PM EDT 0 recs

"maybe my Pena question wasn’t out of line"

the first comment, I took this as saying he’d be a possible trade chip.

by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Jul 22, 2008 3:36 PM EDT 0 recs

Ah, his Pena question refers to asking who would be the starting first baseman next July.

by R.J. Anderson on Jul 22, 2008 3:45 PM EDT up 0 recs

Also

when you think about the draft picks we’d be getting I like it more. We may have a chance at a higher pick if Baltimore signs him. Or, we take the 1st round pick away from the Yankees or maybe Sox. I say do this if we can. My guess is that Atlanta would want major league ready arms. So a trade of either Ejax or Sonny and Hammell or Neimann with Dan Johnson should do it I would assume. Huddy is the only decent starter Atlanta has coming back next year

by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Jul 22, 2008 3:54 PM EDT 0 recs

I don't know

that many teams would give up multiple plus level prospects to rent him for two months. The Sox don’t seem interested, the Yanks dont have the chips. The Angels have the chips but it does not seem like their style, plus they can wait and sign him as a free agent if they/he wanted. Maybe D-Backs?

I’m saying that Tex is worth a lot more than a package of Edwin, Neimann and Johnson but they might not be able to get that. We’d be giving them two arms that go right into their rotation next year and are better than the options they have. Johnson is serviceable for the rest of the year and they can look at other options in the offseason.

by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Jul 22, 2008 4:09 PM EDT 0 recs