Garland to Dodgers??? (RUMOR)

[binkar]

Sports Illustrated's John Heyman is reporting that the DBacks and Dodgers are in serious talks for Garland.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/08/31/garland.diamondbacks/index.html

 

[binkar]

Looks like he has been dealt. He was shaking his teammates hands in the dugout and Hinch took him in the tunnel to talk to him and it looks like he is no longer with the team. No word on the details of the deal.

We better get a/some promising player(s) out of this deal. Garland has been fantastic lately.

EDIT: KTAR is reporting its the famous "a player to be named later".

Can someone explain to me what exactly "a player to be named later" means? Does that man the teams have agreed on a certain player but they wont announce it yet? Or does it mean they haven't agreed on a specific player yet?

 

[Lefty]

Garland will get lit up if he pitches against the Diamondbacks when LA comes to town.

 

[TheHopToad]

Looks like he will still pitch on Thursday as scheduled....except for the Dodgers against the D-Backs. Weird.

 

[binkar]

"The D-backs will receive a player to be named, who, according to several Dodgers, will be Tony Abreu, but Abreu needs to first clear waivers. Abreu once was considered a top infield prospect, but his progress was stalled by three years of injuries."

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090901&content_id=6726228&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

I must confess...I know nothing about him. I'll try to find more info.

 

[HooverDam]

Can someone explain to me what exactly "a player to be named later" means? Does that man the teams have agreed on a certain player but they wont announce it yet? Or does it mean they haven't agreed on a specific player yet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_to_be_named_later

 

[MaoTosiFanClub]

If it's Abreu that's a good deal for a one month rental. He'll have a good shot at taking Ojeda's place as our utility guy next year.

 

[hafey]

Good move. As I recall Garland's contract has an option next year at 8-10 million but also a very sizable buyout in the 4 million range. Smart to get out from underneath that with the Webb decision looming and what I imagine will be a buyer's market again this offseason.

 

[joeshmo]

Byrnes is on the radio he cant mention the names of course becuase of rules but he keeps mentioning more then one player in return and when asked about starting pitching in 2010 and if we need to get a FA he mentioned that once the names are announced for this trade it will answer some of that.

Leads me to believe the deal is for more then one player and one is a starting caliber pitching prospect.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Byrnes is on the radio he cant mention the names of course becuase of rules but he keeps mentioning more then one player in return and when asked about starting pitching in 2010 and if we need to get a FA he mentioned that once the names are announced for this trade it will answer some of that.

Leads me to believe the deal is for more then one player and one is a starting caliber pitching prospect.

 

[binkar]

Byrnes is on the radio he cant mention the names of course becuase of rules but he keeps mentioning more then one player in return and when asked about starting pitching in 2010 and if we need to get a FA he mentioned that once the names are announced for this trade it will answer some of that.

Leads me to believe the deal is for more then one player and one is a starting caliber pitching prospect.

I think it's because he was lumping the Rauch trade and Garland trade together. Both have "players to be named later" and that's why I think he kept talking about multiple players. I may be wrong, but that's how I took it.

 

[Ryanwb]

If this team is depending on PTBNL aquired in end of the year waiver trades to help the club next year.... they are in trouble unless they robbed somebody Jeff Bagwell style

 

[overseascardfan]

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/sports/articles/2009/09/05/20090905spt-dbacksabreu.html


Looks like LA tried to pull a fast one on the D'Backs, I was wondering why Abreu hasn't reported, hopefully the D'Backs can get more than him after filing a grievance.

 

[binkar]

That was nice of LA. Idiots.

 

[overseascardfan]

What the h*** is taking so long for this trade to be completed? Garland has already been a Dodger for almost a month and were still waiting on our PTBN. I think we should get 2 players now and LA needs to pay his buyout, that's the price they pay for being scumbags. This is why you don't deal to division rivals, they will try to screw you, it's bad enough they didn't have to overpay for Garland now they want to stick th D'backs with a guy about to go through arbitration and collect a bigger paycheck.

 

[joeshmo]

Anyone know if that has been resolved yet, or is there any new info?

 

[overseascardfan]

Anyone know if that has been resolved yet, or is there any new info?

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/sports/articles/2009/10/09/20091009spt-dbacksabreu.html

Took over a month and a half but finally some closure, Abreu is now a D'back.