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Anthopoulos, a small deal could be done tonight.

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I'll go with Daniel Hudson or John Axford ... but my crystal ball sucks

 

Daniel Hudson would be amazing.

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Axford or Bailey or Niemann would be really nice. Hudson or Baker or Oswalt would be phenomenal.
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CNN confirmed: Aaron Small signs a 4yr 50m deal

 

I love Aaron Small! I always trade for him in Baseball Mogul 2006!

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If he said it on fan590? Pull up the website and listen

 

I have no desire to do so. That's why I asked, lol.

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Small deal:

We’re working on a small deal right now– maybe we’ll have it announced tonight. Small, though. I’m not trying get buzz going that this is going to move the needle or be breaking news, so it might go tomorrow, but we’re hopeful can get it done tonight. For the most part– like the three-way deal, we were aware of that last week. I think we’ve been active, in terms of dialogue and been aware of what’s going on. We’ve been close on some things– we’re definitely having dialogue, but I don’t know that we’re close to anything significant.

 

Morrow 100%

 

He’s thrown two bullpens and a simulated game, and he’s thrown everything– fastballs, sliders, curveballs– and not at 60% or 80%, it’s at 100%, full go, and he’s not feeling a thing– he feeling great. I think when we look back at the issues he had, he never really had an extended period of rest– it would be three or four days off, then keep playing catch– and he never could allow his arm to heal and his arm to rest. I think he just needed that extended period of rest. And not that he’s thrown ten innings in a game, but multiple bullpens, sim games, things like that– going max effort, because he wanted to really have a good feeling about going into the off-season. He didn’t anything back in every pitch and everything else. So he should be 100% full go for Spring Training.

 

No untouchable prospects

 

No. I’ve actually been asked about him a lot– the same with Stroman and Sean Nolin and guys like that. I don’t want to cut off trade dialogue right out of the chute, so when teams ask about him I say, ‘Look, obviously we value him highly, and we like him quite a bit, but in the right context we’d be open-minded,’ and I say that about every single player on the team. Sometimes I’m reluctant when I ask for someone’s star player, I basically qualify it, I say, ‘Look, I understand you don’t want to move this guy, I understand the price would be steep, but is there any way there you would talk about him, and I would pay,’ and so on. You don’t want to insult anybody, and things like that, and I try to encourage everybody to have that dialogue with us, so, even nine times out of ten it’s not going to go anywhere, just by having conversation and having dialogue, you don’t know where discussions might lead.

 

http://blogs.thescore.com/djf/2013/12/03/aa-speaks-small-deal-coming-morrow-100-more/

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Do it

 

This is so full of AA ambiguity. Define significant. Define moving the needle. Etc. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a little more than a minor league deal but I'm really hoping for Hudson now.

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I think we’ve been active, in terms of dialogue and been aware of what’s going on. We’ve been close on some things– we’re definitely having dialogue, but I don’t know that we’re close to anything significant.

 

Herp derp, due dilligence, herp derp.

 

I mean honestly... Players are flying all over the place. The trade market has been way more active and has provided better deals than AA could have possibly hoped for and AA is dithering about.

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Tigers trade

 

We definitely contacted Detroit earlier in the off-season, knowing that they had depth in starters, and mentioned to them that we would have interest if they saw fit, and at the time it just sounded like they had better fits with other clubs– so it wasn’t even a matter of having a deal to say no to, it was just one of those things that, again, some clubs line up a little bit better with other clubs. And, again, Dave Dombrowski has been doing this job longer than probably all of us combined, and has had great success doing it, and I think they felt like– I can’t to speak for him, but I don’t know that we had the right mix of players for them relative to what they were able to get.

 

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Bard on a minor league deal is a no brainer, high 90 heat touching triple digits don't grow on trees mate. He has an option to boot.

 

I'm fine with him on a minor league deal but I think he's a lost cause.

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