I’ve got some radio coming up: ESPN Radio today at 5:40 pm EDT, then Denver 104.3 FM at 4 pm MDT. Mike & Mike tomorrow morning at 8:25 am EDT. Local ESPN affiliates in Pittsburgh (10:40 am), Los Angeles 710 (12 noon PDT), and Atlanta (3:30 pm).
I was on the ESPN Fantasy podcast today (scroll down to 7/8). If you haven’t downloaded it already, check out the podcast Jason Churchill and I did yesterday.
Yesterday’s radio hits: Baseball Tonight, The Herd.
Right now I am scheduled to chat tomorrow at 1 pm.
Oh, and I asked a friend in Toronto’s PR department. It’s “zep-CHIN-skee.”
Not sure if it was my settings, but your chat with Jason Churchill is barely audible, with too much static, almost like an in between radio station. Is there any fix?
Think it is your computer, fine on mine
Keith: I know I’m like a whole 48 hours late on this, but what gets Troncoso the near-miss status? Innings volume + effectiveness (despite mediocre peripherals) trumping some more lights out numbers?
Thanks Matt.
If either the Cardinals or Brewers get Halladay, I quit this season.
Dave,
Recognition so that when his arm shears off his body in mid-September, his efforts are not all in vain.
Keith, is Buchholz and Ellsbury enough to get Halladay if the Sox take Wells too? Sox obviously win on talent, but it opens up a lot of financial flexibility for the Jays, who would also be getting two players who can start immediately, and would be under control for another four + years.
Two Yankee-centric questions/comments:
Would acquiring Rios for CF (instant improvement over Gardner/Melky) be (1) plausible and (2) a good use of the Yankees’ ability to flex their financial muscle? Matsui comes off the books next season so its really only a half-year salary bump.
I was a bit surprised by the Hughes comment. His numbers in and out of the pen don’t look much different outside of the walks (and the walk rate is really skewed by starts 2-4). His stuff is predictibly playing up but he was still getting SOs in the rotation (19.6% of PAs) and I guess I wouldn’t logically expect a shift to the pen to improve his BB rate. And I really, really hate seeing him used on back-to-back days like he was versus Toronto.
Missed the chat (stupid actual work) but when I was reading the transcript I was wonder. Do GMs ever actually hang up on trade offers? People always say that, but I was wondering if you had any annecdotes in which someone actually just hung up the phone because and offer was so ridiculous?
Ryan, I bet if Jim Bowden called, you would hang up. 😉
Keith, you had an interesting throwaway line in the chat – that the Giants could have had Halladay in 2003. Is there a story there? I don’t remember hearing anything.
Haha, good point.
I bet when Bill Stoneman used to get calls about anybody in the Angels’ farm system (even realistic deals) he would hang up and then cower under his desk.
I think the story for Halladay in 2003 is this:
JP called Sabes and offered Halladay for Foppert, Williams, and Ainsworth. Next day, Sabes called back and said no.
Good process, horrifying results (although I got to see Sidney Ponson pitch for my favorite team during half a season. Yay)
Someone at the McCovey Chronicles blog (one of the commenters) compared it to trading Bumgarner, Alderson, and Sosa for someone coming off their first good year (e.g. Edinson Volquez.)