Wire Taps: San Francisco Chronicle's Henry Schulman - LA Dodgers Awarded Claim?
by Patrick Reddington on Aug 6, 2010 5:50 PM EDT
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PrintJust a quick note on the update provided by San Francisco Chronicle writer Henry Schulman in a blog post entitled, "Giants not awarded waiver claim on Dunn; It probably was the Dodgers", this afternoon. According to Mr. Schulman, who admits in the article that it's just, "...an educated guess based on some things I heard around the league," he believes the Los Angeles Dodgers have claimed Adam Dunn after he was placed on waivers by the Washington Nationals earlier this week, in an attempt to block both the San Francisco Giants and Colorado Rockies from even having an opportunity of landing the big slugger the Nats failed to deal before the Non-Waiver Trade Deadline passed on July 31st. "The Dodgers' chances of winning the division are slim," Mr. Schulman writes, "...but there are a number of teams ahead of them in the wild-card standings who could have used Dunn, particularly the Giants and Phillies." As usual still no word from the Nats.
• BTW: SI.com's Jon Heyman quotes an unnamed baseball executive, in his article entitled, "MLB executives assess teams' performances at trade deadline", who says that, "...What [the Nationals] did with (Adam) Dunn is a sin. They had the most attractive trade piece and kept him."
Nats vs Dodgers tonight at 10:00 pm EST: This waiver claim story might come up again during the broadcast....
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Maybe it's just me, but I'm really tired of other team's execs (White Sox) and
coaches (White Sox) commenting on the Nationals. Sorry Kenny Williams aka WBD (World’s Biggest Dooche) Rizzo didn’t say “How High?” when you told him to jump. Only baseball’s most classless organization would continue to whine about it to anyone in the press that will listen. Maybe if you weren’t such a duplicitous waste of human? flesh, Kenny, other GM’s would be more apt to make a deal with you.
Patiently waiting for "next year" since 1971.
Just because Dunn's "an attractive trade piece" doesn't mean the only thing he's good for is trading.
You can’t make other teams give you sufficient value, and if they didn’t want to pay up and the Nats traded anyone, all of the “other team’s execs” would be complaining that the Nats didn’t get enough in the trade. Sign him and shut them carpers up with DINGERZ.
"And everybody lived happily ever after. Except the Phillies and the Mets. The End." --Sasskuash
Friend of Dukes and Desmond #3
People kind of believe that there's a good chance he'll leave since we've waited this long to sign him.
Who knows? The jury’s out. They don’t give us enough credit for the 3 good moves that we did make, and I hope Ramos is killer, the guys we got from Texas can contribute, and Maya is a core rotation piece for the next four years as we begin a new era in Natstown.
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
Get ready for the brouhaha
JMax is in tonight’s lineup and leading off against mighty Kershaw.
Our lineup, courtesy of Kilgore and Nationals Journal:
1. Justin Maxwell, CF
2. Ian Desmond, SS
3. Ryan Zimmerman, 3B
4. Adam Dunn, 1B
5. Josh Willingham, LF
6. Michael Morse, RF
7. Ivan Rodriguez, C
8. Alberto Gonzalez, 2B
9. John Lannan, SP
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
Incoming!!! [Ducks and runs for cover]
Patiently waiting for "next year" since 1971.
by Princess Jazzy on Aug 6, 2010 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Uh... J-Max walks alot?
At least in comparison to his terrible batting average. I’d make a snarky comparison to Nyjer, but I just don’t have it in me tonight.
"And everybody lived happily ever after. Except the Phillies and the Mets. The End." --Sasskuash
Friend of Dukes and Desmond #3
I actually like this move.
Kershaw is nasty against lefties. JMax’s splits are better against righties. He draws walks. He’s likely to at least draw a walk against Kershaw and he’s a better defensive option in relatively spacious Chavez Ravine.
I fully realize that I may be the only person that likes this move.
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
I'm tempted to put some jinxy comment about what I expect JMax to do tonight.
I won’t and I’ll just say that I think this is a good move loading up the lineup with righties against Kershaw.
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
I'm expecting the worst (Golden Sombrero)
Hopefully he can ground out at least once.
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The only thing I can say about JMax is that if they strike him out it will usually take a bunch of pitches to do it.
Dodgers won’t go but so long with Kershaw. Half of his job to burn enough pitches so that they can do one of our beloved double switches with Bernie later on in the game to face a righty.
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
Shrug on the comment
There was a lot of positive feedback about the Ramos deal in the article as well. Whoever it was (I’d assume the White Sox, but the full statement implied that it wasn’t) even said in his own comment was a continuation of a statement that began:
“What they did with Capps was good. They turned him into a very good prospect.”
I don’t really care what out of town GM’s assessments are of Rizzo’s decision with Dunn…. I’m still disappointed they couldn’t get the deal Rizzo wanted for him. I feel that Dunn is an extremely useful player, but feel that he could have netted the Nats multiple very useful players for the 2012 season the Nats should be building for.
Either way, the Dodgers being the team that claimed Dunn means we’ll be seeing him in DC the rest of the way. Ironically, they have the young big league talent and prospects to trade for him. They don’t really have a need for him. Their claim was purely a block.
In all honesty, even those of us who think that trading Dunn was the best way to go can’t complain about the Dodgers move. Rizzo had months to trade him to anyone he chose, and even create a bidding war. The chances he was going to get more than he would have at the deadline from anyone were remote, but blocking is an effective strategy as well. Again, even if the Dodgers don’t want him, Rizzo had his chance and didn’t take it.
I don't really like the Dodgers farm system.
Not what it once was, although I guess you can say they have some great pieces in the low minors.
Sunshine will come to Nats Park, I promise. (visit por favor? my website)
Funny that you mention that...
Sickels just spent time dissing the Dodgers system today.
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
I guess bluelineswinger was referring to those guys who've graduated
I’ll gladly take Loney and another guy
Sunshine will come to Nats Park, I promise. (visit por favor? my website)
Pretty much what I was reeferring to
Figured that if the Dodgers were to actually try and use it to trade for him that Loney would be part of the package. A guy like Withrow or Martin having a bad year could actually be a good thing in terms of making him more available, but the ceiling (your preference ajk!) is definitely there.
Again, doesn’t matter. Dodgers wouldn’t trade Loney, and they wouldn’t want him taking over for Manny in LF.
by bluelineswinger on Aug 6, 2010 8:28 PM EDT up reply actions
reefer?
Errr…. refer…. Swear that’s not where my heads at guys. This is a family site!
by bluelineswinger on Aug 6, 2010 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Hmm...
Questionable…
And man would I love Loney— he is really unappreciated.
Sunshine will come to Nats Park, I promise. (visit por favor? my website)
Wouldn’t it be a rather good idea if Rizzo goes ahead and gets on with signing #44…soon?
by mechanicsville on Aug 6, 2010 8:08 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Takes two to tango.
That’s what the whole trade Dunn thing was about. If there’s no chance of a waiver wire deal and we pull him back, all the leverage is in Dunn’s agent’s camp and Rizzo will be dancing to that man’s strings until free agency.
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
J-Max is gonna get a hit tonight
I have a lot of faith in him, probably more than I should. He’ll figure it out….way too much natural talent to give up on him yet.
I'm not going to go that far.
He’s a decent right handed platoon player/plus defense 4th outfielder and he’s being used in that role tonight. Given that Nyjer can’t hit and you’d like to have some defense in spacious Chavez Ravine, tonight’s as good as any to give him a rare start against a lefty who can give some guys Randy Johnsonitis.
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
I just think there's a lot there to work with
Obviously he’s never done anything in the big leagues, but I really see him eventually figuring out his problems at the plate. His defense is quite good and he has a strong arm…plus he has a really nice walk rate.
I just get a feeling he’ll come around…hopefully he’ll get some at-bats this series. I agree tonight is a really nice situation for him to get some at-bats.
Really that's the consensus of a lot of non DC fans and people outside of the organization.
I’m getting to the point where I feel we need to include him a trade to get him a better opportunity to play.
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
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