Oswalt Rumors

[Roy31]

Right now these are some of the rumors for Oswalt going around.

Mets are willing to give deal Milledge and another prospect.

Rangers are willing to give up Danks & Blalock to acquire Oswalt and are still in 3 way talks. Trade for Tejada then trade for Oswalt.

Possibly what could happen is. Nieve & Danks go to Orioles, Oswalt to the Rangers, and Tejada to the Astros.

Tejada talks have died down with other teams.

[Providence A's]

do you have any links? where are you getting all these "rumors" from?

[Roy31]

Jayson Stark, Will Carroll and other insider sources.

[HollywoodLeo]

do you have any links?

[Rufio181]

do you have any links? where are you getting all these "rumors" from?

He's making them up to get us all excited!

[Molina00]

I would be all for trading Blalock if we could get Oswalt, but I haven't heard anything that would make me want to trade him for anybody else, including Tejada.

[Providence A's]

I said links...meaning plural...that is one link

[Raphictor]

Evan Grant of DMN:

"Rangers give up: Hank Blalock, John Danks, Edinson Volquez, Vicente Padilla and Joaquin Benoit.

Orioles give up: Miguel Tejada, Melvin Mora, Rodrigo Lopez.

Astros give up: Roy Oswalt, Brad Lidge, Adam Everett, Hunter Pence. ....

And now for the reshuffling:

Baltimore ends up: Blalock, Everett, Danks, Volquez and Pence. Two established big leaguer and three extremely promising minor leaguers.

Houston ends up: Tejada, Padilla and Benoit. Astros get the bat they need, have a quality fill in starter for Oswalt and get a tantalizing arm for pen.

Texas gets: Oswalt, Mora, Lidge, Lopez. Lopez replaces Padilla and Oswalt goes to the front of the Rangers rotation. Mora, who is signed for three more years, gives the Rangers a third baseman and one who can be something of a spark plug, and the Rangers get Lidge, who may be able to rediscover his dominant self outside of Houston."

[McKain]

The Astros are completely retarded if they give up Oswalt in any deal. Pettite has been terrible, and Clemens + Backe isn't going to be leading this team to the playoffs.

[Providence A's]

that trade is not happening

I want whatever kool-aid the Rangers fans on this board are drinking

[HollywoodLeo]

I said links...meaning plural...that is one link

[Molina00]

Evan Grant of DMN:

"Rangers give up: Hank Blalock, John Danks, Edinson Volquez, Vicente Padilla and Joaquin Benoit.

Orioles give up: Miguel Tejada, Melvin Mora, Rodrigo Lopez.

Astros give up: Roy Oswalt, Brad Lidge, Adam Everett, Hunter Pence. ....

And now for the reshuffling:

Baltimore ends up: Blalock, Everett, Danks, Volquez and Pence. Two established big leaguer and three extremely promising minor leaguers.

Houston ends up: Tejada, Padilla and Benoit. Astros get the bat they need, have a quality fill in starter for Oswalt and get a tantalizing arm for pen.

Texas gets: Oswalt, Mora, Lidge, Lopez. Lopez replaces Padilla and Oswalt goes to the front of the Rangers rotation. Mora, who is signed for three more years, gives the Rangers a third baseman and one who can be something of a spark plug, and the Rangers get Lidge, who may be able to rediscover his dominant self outside of Houston."

Another deal I would be heavily against. Rangers give up an all-star 3B man, their ace this year, and 2 future aces in Danks and Volquez while getting an okay hitter in Mora, a bum in Lopez, and a pitcher who is going from one hitters park to another. Okay, they do get a very good pitcher in Oswalt, but are sacrificing their future in the process giving up Blalock and 2 potential aces.

I like last year's trade deadline because nothing happened.
I hate this one because of all the rumors flying around of deals that I hate. lol