The A's in need of a Holliday?

SwisherFan33 — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:52:25 -0000

I just read this article from the always amusing Ken Rosenthal.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8143654?MSNHPHMA

Basically, it points out that if the Rockies were to trade Holliday, the A's (among other teams) could make good use of him. I know were still in-between on how much to compete now, but can you imagine how amazing Holliday could be for the A's?!?!? Of course the Rockies would demand a haul of prospects which would go against the whole point of trading Swisher and Haren. However, a nice aspect would be that the A's could try to make him their franchise player for the future. Or they could always flip him after the 08 campaign if it doesn't work out. Lots of options...and its always fun to speculate.

I miss Miguel Tejada and he misses me...or something

SwisherFan33 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:02:18 -0000

Let's look at the facts...

Miguel hates Baltimore.

We hate Crosby

We need a RH bat with a little pop

Sounds like a match made in heaven...

Baltimore appears to be in the same position they have been in over the last decade. They are a team paying a lot of money to lose. Their highest paid player is Tejada who is making about 13 million a year. He also happens to be frustrated with management, and I don't blame him. So how about...

Crosby
DJ
+ 1 or 2 prospects

for

Miguel Tejada (A's pay 9-10 million a year for each year of his remaining salary)

Tejada has about 3 good years left, and hopefully b that point we will have a prospect ready to go (I was hoping for Cliff Pennington but that looks more and more unlikely).

Makes sense to me...how about you?

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The A's in need of a Holliday?

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