MLB Trade Rumors: Seattle Rejected Blockbuster for Felix Hernandez
by Ray Guilfoyle on Aug 4, 2009 9:30 AM EDT
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PrintGeoff Baker from the Seattle Times wrote a piece yesterday stating that the Mariners rejected an unbelievable offer from the Boston Red Sox for Felix Hernandez. Here is what the Red Sox offered:L:
I'm told the Red Sox apparently approached the Mariners and first tried to do a Hernandez trade with Seattle exclusively. Boston wanted Hernandez and gave the Mariners a list of eight prospects, from which Seattle would be allowed to pick any five.
They included:
RHP Clay Buchholz
RHP Daniel Bard
RHP Justin Masterson
LHP Nick Hagadone
RHP Michael Bowden
LHP Felix Doubront
OF Josh Reddick
SS Yamaico NavarroSeattle turned that down. But that was just the warm-up act to the blockbuster proposal that followed.
Hmmm....apparently Buchholz and Bard are not as untouchable as many were lead to believe.
Baker goes on to say that this was the Mariner's initial foray into seeing what value they could get in a deal for Hernandez.
From what I'm hearing, the Mariners didn't think any of the packages they were being offered would go down much in substance over the next 12 months, when they'd only have another year-plus of Hernandez under control. Why give up the extra year, their reasoning went, if they could still get a similar offer at the 2010 deadline?
Should the Mariners have accepted that offer? Getting 5 top prospects and controlling them for 6 years is hard to top, no?
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Wow
I think if I was going to start a major league franchise and I could start with any pitcher in the league, I’d take Felix. All the experience (and success) at such a young age (he’s only 2 years older than Strasburg and he’s in his 5th (!) season, all the strikeouts, all the groundballs, those great mechanics…. the Mariners have to try to sign him long-term.
YEAH they should haven taken it!
My Indians got a heck of a lot less for last year’s Cy Young winner and arguably our best catcher ever…Victor Martinez! Still mad about it as you can tell
Far too little for Felix
You’ve got to hand it Boston, they really know how to exploit their prospect hype. Clay & Bard have been hyped a lot recently, between teases in the majors and the “untouchable” tag. If it drives their prices up, why not go along with it? Kelly, Tazawa, Westmoreland, or Anderson would have to be included in this kind of deal for it to work.
While I agree that getting 5 prospects is always good, these aren’t the kind of impact guys I’d look in moving Felix, especially with my team in contention for 2010. The Indians were in a similar situation, owning an asset it controlled relatively cheaply for 2010, a year they could contend. However, while their farm system is now one of the best, they really shot themselves in the foot. If I’m Seattle, I realize that this package isn’t going to do me as much good as it would a rebuilding team, and I’d need Boston to open up their entire farm system before talking to them. 2.5 years of Felix is going to cost you.
Wow
Wow I am the first person to warn against thinking super prospects are as good or better than proven major leaguers, but I can’t see how the M’s could have turned down a five-pitcher package of
RHP Clay Buchholz
LHP Daniel Bard
RHP Justin Masterson
LHP Nick Hagadone
RHP Michael Bowden
Assuming the M’s stay focused on playing good/great defense, adding Masterson and Bard, two players with major league success, along with Buchholz and Bowden and the incredible upside of Hagadone was a no-brainer
NO-brainer
accept the deal, 5 of the top pitching prospects in baseball
Carlos Guillen, the Latino Nick Punto
ugh,done with this junk
why even post this junk,newspaper guys know their businesss is done so they just make up rumors to sell papers,what moron’s would ever give up that many prospects for a pitcher who’s had 1 full GOOD year? this site has become the National enquirer lately instead of some good baseball talk with all these useless trade rumors……
Epstein
is the moron who would give up all those prospects for Felix.
Would love to hear what the superhero would like to see covered here going forward.
The traffic to the site during the weeks leading up to the trade deadline beg to differ with you superhero.
raygu
by Ray Guilfoyle on Aug 5, 2009 8:45 AM EDT up reply actions
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