even though I doubt the Mariners whould part with him

Talbot and Brignac for Clement and Bedard, I would do it faster than Taylor Swift

I go back and forth really.

If Zobrist is legit, you have nowhere for Brignac to play, and you’re essentially trading an extra part now and in the future for a damn good pitcher and a potentially very good catcher.

Sheilds
Garza
Price
Sonny
Niemann
Kazmir
Bedard

assuming one of those guys is part of the deal (most likely Sonny) that still leaves us with 6 starters. If it is a guy like Talbot than we have 7 starters. I wouldn’t see us making this trade unless a 3rd team is involved that would send us some spects for another starter. Keep in mind in the case of an injury we still have Davis if we have to call someone up.

but

Shields
Kazmir
Bedard
Garza
Price

is really really sexy

if Clement could be a 1B then it might be a good idea to try.

We trade them Navi in the deal as well as Sonny and Brignac of course

-2.1 Mil

Percival, Shouse, Nelson and Bradford all off the books

- 9 Mil

Aki’s option prob not picked up with Zobrist beng part of our MIF until the Beckham days

-4 Mil

That is 15.1 off the books WITH keeping Kaz and Crawford

so we offer arbitration, we either keep a stud SP which we can now afford or we get the extra pick.

2010 Rotation, Lineup, Bullpen, Bench

1. James Shields
2. Matt Garza
3. David Price
4. Wade Davis
5. Scott Kazmir (or dare I say, Bedard?)

CL J.P Howell
SU Jeff Niemann
MR Grant Balfour
MR Lance Cormier (gotta resign this stud)
MR Dan Wheeler (last year of his stupid deal)
MR New loogy (we seem to get a new one every year)
MR Random AAA arm/signed guy/ guy we got in trade

Upton CF
Crawford LF
Longoria 3B
Pena 1B
Zobrist 2B
Burrell DH
Joyce RF
Bartlett SS
Clement C

Bench: Either we don’t trade Navi or we hope again Riggans is healthy or hell, Jaso gets a chance so…

Riggans/Navarro/Jaso, Aybar, we sign some lefty for this spot, some MIF

ANYWAY, after all that, my point is this, if we do this and Kaz comes back like Kaz (putting Niemann in the pen)

We have a great arm in the pen and a WS rotation of Shields – Bedard – Garza – Price – Kazmir (maybe too many lefties….)

Howell, Niemann, Cormier, Balfour, Nelson, Choate, Bradford (DL Wheeler!). I have seen all of them just shut teams down

12 great arms while our best offense in the AL gets better

Ok now my hand feels like I just jerked off for a few hours but that would be SICK. End of story

I know they view Clement as a spare part and Bedard as someone to sell, but are Sonny and Briggy enough?

Practicing him at 2B, showing him off at SS, fixing his swing could of all been to show case him, which is god damn genius. Man, I want Bedard now

Bedard isn’t going to be a Type A unless he steps up his level of performance to a level higher than his 2007. He’s going to win more games in Tampa than Seattle most likely, but his 2008 really killed his chances of getting to Type A status.

With that being said, he’s a fantastic pitcher and going to Tampa with that defense behind him he may very well get even better results than he has in Seattle. Yes there are injury concerns, which is why the return the M’s are looking to get for him is Brignac instead of elite prospects.

Clement is going to hit and the Mariners refusal to play him at catcher in Seattle while Rob Johnson and his .243 wOBA hit seventh has been one of the more annoying parts of this season. Our offense is historically bad and we’re basically batting a pitcher because of the FO’s bizarre obsession with catcher defense and catcher intangibles. (interestingly Rob Johnson’s defense is appallingly bad.) I like Clement and I wish he had a future in Seattle, but the M’s don’t see him as a catcher. Other organizations do, and so it makes sense to move him.

I love this deal for both teams and because the M’s have decent financial resources I think they’d probably be willing to pay a good chunk of Bedard’s contract. Our situation at SS is awful and so while we might be able to get more talent elsewhere the need is so great that I think filling it is more important than maximizing absolute value.

I don’t see this trade happening unless we get a SP along with Brignac, so it’s probably going to be more than Bedard + Clement. I have no idea who else would come along. Balentien would be a nice fit in Tampa Bay (his defense is much better and his plate approach has improved as well; he is not as bad as his 2008 would suggest) but the Rays have plenty of OF depth at the ML level and Wlad’s out of options. Maybe a relief pitcher? I don’t know.

Upton, cf
Crawford, lf
Longoria, 3b
Pena, 1b
Zobrist, 2b
Bartlett, ss
Kapler, rf
Navarro, c
Niemann, p

Clement’s career is a catcher is done. Finito. Period.

Zobrist under control until 2013, I’m not sure about how long Barty has got, but those two are all we need in the middle in field. I think Niemann could do well out of the pen if they want to try something like that.

I would just really like to see Erik Bedard pitching for the Rays. I know he will do well.