only minutes away.

anxiously awaiting a letdown.

isn't this where hamas would flip out?

Would like to see if we atleast trade farns hope something goes down

30 minutes left (tictictictictictictictictic...)

realistically, farnsy is the most logical.

as much as i hate to say it too, he's actually become one i know can strike out the opposition (if you don't count last nite).

yeah, the problem is we need one of the other 29 teams to look at Guillen and say "yeah... I want some of that".

The general consensus would be: "today, the Royals traded outfielder Jose Guillen to (team X) for...", (click) "I've seen enough, Royals won that trade"

15 minutes

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by the way, if a trade does happen minutes before the deadline it might take a bit for a rumor to get tweeted out and 30-40 minutes or so to get announced. We won't really know that nothing happened until about an hour after the deadline.

Guillen is like a bad case of luggage. Nobody wants it, and you just can't give it away.

oh here's some Royals news. Aaron Crow has been demoted from AA back to Advanced-A Wilmington.

But I still feel great about the signing. /DM

Good sign for an advanced college arm with a year of "pro" experience.

Crow's loss is Duffy's gain, Danny Duffy was promoted to Northwest Arkansas

according to rumors, the Indians just dumped Kerry Wood onto the Yankees for about $1.5MM.

Why would anyone want Wood for a team making a postseason push?

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Thats a head scratcher dusty baker killed woods career

Kerry Wood killed Kerry Woods career.

The 2010 trading deadline for players who do not pass waivers has passed. If the Royals made any last-second deals we should know soon. The rule is just that the teams had to have informed MLB of the deal by 5 minutes ago, nothing has to be announced right away.

Well too bad i always hated woods

Sticking pins in the Jose Guillen doll right now.

Rick Ankiel and Kyle Farnsworth were both traded to the Braves in the last moments. No idea yet what we got.

Rick Ankiel and Kyle Farnsworth to Braves. KC was asking for Gregor Blanco. Believe he's is going back to KC (From ESPN)

Man DM and his love for braves talent

Atlanta fans are going ape-s*** with anger.

looks like 3 players? Blanco, Collins, and Chavez. looking them up now

So we're gonna put meier in center in and Guillen in right and bring up kila right? :)

Heard we got Tim Collins and Jesse Chavez plus one other for Ankiel and Farnsworth.

The lefty that the Jays swapped to Atlanta in the Yunel Escobar deal is being flipped to the Royals.#trades

just looked them up. they all suck. what a surprise.

what positions?

so did the guys we traded

Tim Collins stats look good to me http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=collin004tim

I think Blanco is probably our new lead-off hitter also or am i wrong?

Gregor Blanco - outfielder. Career MLB stats: 531 at-bats, .252 AVG., 1 HR, 42 RBI. Yes, you are reading that correctly. They just got an outfielder that has 1 home run in 531 at-bats.

Jesse Chavez - right-handed relief pitcher. Career in MLB: 116 games, 4.92 ERA, 1.45 WHIP

Tim Collins - left-handed relief pitcher. Actually has good numbers in the minors. 2.35 ERA and 1.09 WHIP in 116 games. Still in AA right now.

The Braves on Saturday filled a void in center field and added to their deep bullpen in a trade with the Royals, obtaining Rick Ankiel and Kyle Farnsworth.

Kansas City got reliever Jesse Chavez, outfielder Gregor Blanco and minor-league right-hander Tim Collins.

With Nate McLouth demoted to the minors and Melky Cabrera hitting .265, Ankiel can take over in center. He recently returned from a strained quadriceps that cost him more than two months and has four homers and 15 RBI in 92 at-bats this season.

Farnsworth is 3-0 with a 2.42 ERA in 37 appearances. He served as Atlanta's closer down the stretch in 2005 after coming over from Detroit. Chavez, 26, is 3-2 with a 5.89 ERA in 28 games.

Blanco was sent down July 21 but made 16 starts in center field for Atlanta this year and has a .252 average in 204 major-league games.

Collins, 20, went from Toronto to Atlanta in the Yunel Escobar-Alex Gonzalez deal earlier this month. He is just 5-foot-7 and 155 pounds but has 87 strikeouts in 51 innings at Double-A.

When the alternative is Chan Ho Park? They gave up nothing for him.

True, hopefully he will pan out, otherwise I don't see the point of this trade.

Gregor Blanco, CF, 0.670 OPS in very limited major-league AB, 0.733 in his minor-league career. Not excited about him at all.

Jesse Chavez, Relief RHP, over 1.4 WHIP in limited major-league innings, 1.315 WHIP in his triple-A career, about 2.5 BB/K in AAA. eh, not all that excited about him either.

Tim Collins, Relief AA LHP (we clearly dont have enough left-handed pitching. We have to have close to the most left-handed talent in baseball), 1.086 minor league WHIP, about 3.5 K/BB in the minors. However, he's gone nuts this year, 15.4 K/9 in AA. Wow, thats actually pretty good.

Looks to me like a very good B+/A- AA minor league lefty-relief pitching prospect and 2 very fringey AAA C-/D prospects. Braves fans seem emotionally attached to Blanco, but his stats really dont look special at all.

DAMN! Okay, maybe this trade will be alright after all.

Is this right? My stats for Collins at AA have him with 104 strikeouts in 63.2 innings. That is a lot of K's.

cool. thanks for doing the legwork fellas.
ankiel--nothing
farnsy--after he gave up that homer to thome last year (early), i was like, money not well spent.

at least we could potentially have an upside with these new guys? maybe. throw me a bone here?!

another comment from a Brave fan.

His K rate is just ridiculous this trade looks like a win to me no more Ainkel

this is too funny.
nice find.

We got a very, very good lefty reliever who could help our bullpen late next year or 2012. The other two guys are total lottery-tickets, but no reason to expect much out of them.

All I have to say about the other two guys, is Blanco better not block Kila, via starting in the OF and putting Guillen at DH. He needs to go to AAA and prove he can hit worth a damn at all. (he never did for Atlanta)

No excuses now, Kila needs to be up and playing the rest of the year. Guillen's slow ass is gonna be painful to watch in right every day though.

I think Kila ****ed DM's wife for him not to be up yet. He is going to be the next Ryan Shealy. Wasted away in the minors.

This is all win. No doubt aout it. We just traded shit for something decent. Can't remember the last time we've been on the good side of a trade this bad.

Ned Yost is no longer the interim manager. He has been signed through the 2012 season.

That's another win. I like Nedsy.

apparently Tim Collins (all 5'7" of him, nickname "Tiny Tim") is performing his magic with his curveball. Baseball America rated him as having the best curveball in the Blue Jays organization earlier this year, before they traded him to Atlanta.

update, we are also sending cash to Atlanta. no idea how much.

LMAO.

Couldn't we have sent Guillen instead?

I'll second that, we'll eat his whole salary too....just take him

DFA his ass and be done with it.

another update: DM thinks Collins can move fast through the minor leagues<del>, and the Royals may consider trying to convert him to a starter.</del> (edit: removed false second-hand rumor)

closer of the future maybe?

Billy Wagner Jr.

I'm calling this trade a win. In the bigger picture, we aren't talking about high-upside like a great infielder or power OF or anything like that, but a very good relief pitcher still has value. We traded away Ankiel, who I no faith in, and Farnsworth, who is... not consistent and getting very old but is riding high on his first good season in a while. (imagine that, we took a player who is playing out of his mind at a level he cant sustain, and traded him at the height of his value. What a concept)

We got a guy who looks to me like he grades out as having a 50% chance of turning into a average-to-good relief pitcher, maybe a 25% chance of being an elite relief pitcher, and 25% chance of falling apart and turning into garbage.

Also a 4th outfielder with *NO* power and a pitcher I dont care about at all, but hey we could get lucky.

Collins alone makes it a W. He has a future here, possibly a bright one. Ankiel and Farnsy had nothing.

If we keep moving Players that are known for Minors maybe we will catch a break and one of them turns out to be a star. We are due to find another Peanut in shit for sure. I like the possibility for ankiel to get white hot at some point. He can hit homeruns in bunches

Tim Collins stats: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/m...pbp&pid=525768

2.29 ERA this season, batters are hitting 0.154 off him in AA this year, maybe about 0.170-0.180 for his minor league career. close to 4.5K/BB this season.

Its also nice to see that he's starting to turn into a groundball pitcher, his GO/AO ratio is roughly 0.80 for the year. Doesn't give up homers, about 0.50 HR/9 for his career, which is really nice.

Obviously he probably cant maintain those elite Soria-level stats through AAA all the way up to KC, but if he doesn't just completely fall off a whole lot, he could be a very good setup.

Ryan Shealy was not wasted away in the minors, he wasn't good enough to play in the big leagues.

:clap:

Well, at least y'all didn't trade a Gold Glove caliber RFer and Silver Slugger for a washed up 4th starter.

I think you got more for Rick Ankiel than we got for Ryan Ludwick. Collins seems like a nice piece.

And you managed to unload Farnsworth's salary.

I'm still just stunned by this ****ing Ludwick trade.

I can't say I dislike this trade. It's not mind blowing, but one decent prospect for those guys is a win. Just fucking bring Kila up already.

nah ... i think DM thinks they screwed up with Alex Gordon and doesn't want to do it again.

Speaking of Ryan Shealy, did he just quit or something? Where is he at this year?

I dont get why some of you are bitching about the return for a sandy vag like ankiel and a panzy ass farnsworth who has been worthless until this year, and he will suck as usual. We got rid of them, thats all that matters. We knew there was no value there, and now it should open a spot for Kila. Now cut guillen and get him the **** out of kc.

not bad ... wish we could of unloaded Guillen but :shrug:

IIRC, Red Sox recently released him from AAA.

I'll volunteer to take him out back and shoot him

All the experts love the trade. Get a fukn clue before you post.

Has anyone else heard this...Fescoe was reporting this week that the Patterson's (Cerner/KC Wizards) are putting together a group to buy the Royals?

I haven't heard, but I'd love that. They've been fantastic with the Wizards.

They're not sugar daddy owners though, so it wouldn't do much on that end.

I doubt the rumor though, unless the Glass's just want out. I believe there is some clause in their buying contract that dictates the amount of profit they can make off selling the team. Not sure if that still applies.

Also, they aren't losing money on the team. Where's the incentive to sell? MLB has become pretty lucrative.

There's a guy who is good in AA, and two guys that suck more ass than humanly possible in the majors. Pardon me while I try to contain my excitement.

It's Kila time again, people.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/01...ls-tejada.html

Now will they actually give him some playing time?

I wouldn't be surprised if they do something reeruned like put Bloomquist at DH and leave Kila to ride the pine

Yes, but that is what the rate of return is for dealing 2 guys who suck ass in the majors. I'm surprised you got anything for Ankiel and Farnsworth. That lefty at least has potential.

Who is in their investor group I wonder? It could be a good thing. Cardinals are ran in a similar fashion. Though if I was Glass I would just sell off half the team.