OT - Baseball Fans

With all the trades so far this offseason, who do you think is going to emerge as the best team in baseball?

The Anaheim Angels. ESPECIALLY if they get another starter to go with Lackey!

As of right now, I think Detroit is going to pull out ahead. Anaheim will be a force but D-Town is stacked. or  If Boston lands Santana a Beckett/Santana 1-2 punch will be filthy.

But if Santana goes to Anaheim, and he could, they got a 3B prospect we like and they have the money, a Santana/Lackey with that lineup?  WOW!

Yeah so not going to happen. Anaheim just doesn't have what we need. We just signed 3B free agent Mike Lamb and we have Brain Buscher in the minors. What they really need to work on right now is getting a center fielder and pitching. What would be funny as hell though would be a trade for Torii!

They are REALLY high on Ben Revere, the kid we just took in the draft.  That is why we would settle for CoCo Crisp if Boston wouldn't throw in Jacoby Ellsbury and Lester/Buchholz, as a stop gap until Rever's ready. I like the signing of Mike Lamb...but I really don't think Brian Buscher is our future every day 3B.  Maybe they have plans to give Mauer some time down there.  We can't risk his bat on the rigors of catching to long!

Good call, I completely forgot about Revere. My uncle seems to think that Coco Crisp will be here this season wether we trade Santana or not. If we do trade Santana I would hope Ellsbury would be in there some where. Lamb and Everett are 2 players that I am not all that familiar with, But having them lined up together knowing each other should give us some ease and good defense. I don't forsee the Twins putting Mauer in the Hot Corner anytime soon. They did have him running some drills at 1st last sseason.

Adam Everett couldn't hit a beach ball while standing in a phone booth, FYI.  He has been called Greg Gagne with a better glove, if you remember the Twins of yester-year.  And Lamb has a FAIR bat, but he is clearly a stop gap.  Maybe the organization sees something in Buscher.  I dunno.  It's Bill Smith's call, and he knows batters better than Terry Ryan ever did.  TR was a good GM, but he knew pitchers. CoCo Crisp is something of a clubhouse cancer, I've heard.  And if we can ever talk Hank Steimbrenner (George's kid) into giving us Melky Cabrara with Ian Kennedy AND Phil Hughes, we need to do it.  The Yank's will be tough enough with Johan and Joba Chamberlain in their rotation. Respect my baseball knowledge now?

It's been respected! No disrespect here on my end. I love hearing all opinions on all aspects of the game! Steinbrenner can suck a fat one. He ****** me off but I do agree if they would through in Kennedy with Hughes and Melky the Twins would be stupid to say no. I love Joba though, it's too bad that they are unwilling to part with him. Ohh great. Not another Kyle Lohse I hope. What a friggin nut he was! Greg Gagne huh! Funny. I saw him when he was here for the 87' reunion weekend.

I'm not even going to pretend I know anything about AL baseball other then that the Red Sox are "wicked awesome"....but I'm hoping that the addition of last year's AL All-Star Team starter, Dan Herring, and maybe a semi-healthy final run by the ancient Randy Johnson, and one more year of experience for a very very young roster might be enough for the Diamondbacks to go even further then the NLCS this year...We'll see....Only 38 days until pitchers and catchers report!