In trying to guage what kind of return we can get for Will Ohman, we can look to the recently completed trade between the Marlins and Mariners. Seattle sent 38-year old reliever Arthur Rhodes to the Marlins for 22-year old pitcher Gaby Hernandez. The young Hernandez was rated as the 6th-best prospect in the Marlins organization this year and is considered a mid to back end of the rotation starter who is almost major league ready.
Rhodes is having a good year after coming back from Tommy John surgery last season, but I would consider Ohman a more valuable bullpen arm that him. We should be able to expect a higher return than a major league ready back-end of the rotation starter (though, we could probably use a solid innings eater like that somewhere in our rotation instead of the four and out back-end guys we have now).
The rumor yesterday had us swapping Ohman for the Red Sox' Daniel Bard, a former first-rounder and a guy who is more suited to the bullpen than the rotation. Perhaps the Braves are holding out to see what these other lesser relievers bring back before they pull the trigger on an Ohman deal.
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Might was well take it right down to the wire, teams will get more desperate as the day goes on, and we should have more (like the Rhodes deal) to use for comparison purposes. Also, as its been said many times, if Wren doesn’t like the return, we just keep him.
If that happens, hopefully we can get a couple more “Ohman being Ohman” bits out of him before the end of the season.
VegasAces - July 31, 2008
I like the Ohman for Bard swap but I really hope we could pry Morlan and Royster from the Rays.
Jay212033 - July 31, 2008
or
go ahead and swap him for Bard plus maybe a prospect such as Felix Doubront.
BlueVol03 - July 31, 2008
Kind of a slow posting day today…where is everyone?
VegasAces - July 31, 2008
Just heard that the Yankees and Red Sox might be in a bidding war for Eyre. I also heard that the Rays may not trade at all. And heard the Cards are out of this deal. Dont seem to me we will get as much as we hoped for Ohman. If we dont get enough we should just keep him.
rockybull - July 31, 2008
So how many people are going to expect Buchholz or Lowrie
and then get angry when we end up with a prospect as valuable as Gaby Hernandez?
VictorW - July 31, 2008
The same amount
of people who were expecting a trade with Arizona, and we ended up trading with Anaheim instead.
royhobbs - July 31, 2008
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