From ESPN

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stor...yson&id=1971920

Despite stories out of Arizona that Javier Vazquez has reassured the Diamondbacks he's cool with sticking around the desert, Vazquez has continued to tell people who have spoken with him that he wants to be traded somewhere on the east coast.

 

An official of one club that has talked with the Diamondbacks believes they're at least mulling a Baltimore offer of Eric Bedard, Jorge Julio and a prospect. But the Phillies got nowhere dangling a package headed by Randy Wolf. And Florida apparently has decided to hang onto A.J. Burnett and go with the pitching it already has.

 

Burnett's name has bounced on and off the Rumor Central lists all winter. But one team that has been in touch with the Marlins says Florida was only serious about moving him in a three-way deal to get pieces to send Oakland for Tim Hudson.

From ESPN

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stor...yson&id=1971920

Despite stories out of Arizona that Javier Vazquez has reassured the Diamondbacks he's cool with sticking around the desert, Vazquez has continued to tell people who have spoken with him that he wants to be traded somewhere on the east coast.

 

An official of one club that has talked with the Diamondbacks believes they're at least mulling a Baltimore offer of Eric Bedard, Jorge Julio and a prospect. But the Phillies got nowhere dangling a package headed by Randy Wolf. And Florida apparently has decided to hang onto A.J. Burnett and go with the pitching it already has.

 

Burnett's name has bounced on and off the Rumor Central lists all winter. But one team that has been in touch with the Marlins says Florida was only serious about moving him in a three-way deal to get pieces to send Oakland for Tim Hudson.

 

 

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Now Hudson for Burnett is a trade I would have like to see.

From ESPN

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stor...yson&id=1971920

Despite stories out of Arizona that Javier Vazquez has reassured the Diamondbacks he's cool with sticking around the desert, Vazquez has continued to tell people who have spoken with him that he wants to be traded somewhere on the east coast.

 

An official of one club that has talked with the Diamondbacks believes they're at least mulling a Baltimore offer of Eric Bedard, Jorge Julio and a prospect. But the Phillies got nowhere dangling a package headed by Randy Wolf. And Florida apparently has decided to hang onto A.J. Burnett and go with the pitching it already has.

 

Burnett's name has bounced on and off the Rumor Central lists all winter. But one team that has been in touch with the Marlins says Florida was only serious about moving him in a three-way deal to get pieces to send Oakland for Tim Hudson.

 

 

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Now Hudson for Burnett is a trade I would have like to see.

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but alas, it never happenned

 

i would've liked it too

beinfest is no idiot.

Well, AJ is all but gone after this season. I would like to see Vaz in Miami, but why would hte DBacks risk losing AJ when they already got Vaz?

We might end up trading Burnett at the deadline, if we haven't reached a contract extension by then, and it doesn't look like we'll make the playoffs.

We might end up trading Burnett at the deadline, if we haven't reached a contract extension by then, and it doesn't look like we'll make the playoffs.

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And all we'll get is prospects.

 

:confused

 

If the Marlins are interested in winning now while keeping the pieces to build for the future (Cabrera-Hermida-Willis-Bazardo) as Loria has stated in the past, why does his General Manager take such risk on a guy who would spurn the team if the money was equal? Trade him for immediate help.

I dont think a Burnett for prospects trade is right. We're not rebuilding.

What else could you get at the trading deadline? The teams that will want a starting pitcher will be in playoff contention and not willing to give up productive members of their ballclub.