Marlins Trade Matt Lindstrom

by craig on Dec 10, 2009 9:25 AM EST in News Comment 5 comments

As I am sure you all know by now the Marlins traded Matt Lindstrom to Astros for a couple of warm bodies.

The Marlins get right-hander Robert Bono and shortstop Luis Bryan from Houston. The player to be named will be Houston's first pick in today's Rule 5 draft, according to ESPN.com.

My favorite part of this was the quote from the Astros general manager, Ed Wade.

"Our guys think Bryan is going to be a really good big league player, but he's 19 years old and X number of years away from the big leagues," Wade said. "Bono has a chance to pitch in the big leagues and we recognize it impacts the depth of those young arms, but if we have a chance to add a kid who could close and who has the stuff Lindstrom has, you have to give up something to get something."

Uh huh, so says the man who sits atop of the organization, who is so good at evaluating young talent, that they have the worse farm system in all of the baseball world.

So did the Marlins get the best of Houston's crappy farm system? Not quite. This via twitter from Baseball America's Ben Badler.

Neither Robert Bono nor Luis Bryan, the two guys the Marlins got from Houston for Lindstrom, would have made the Astros top 30

Here is the deal, the Marlins gave Lindstrom away for free. Now maybe one of the guys we got in return will surprise, but I sincerely doubt it.

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Matt Lindstrom et al

Everyone seems to be forgetting how terribly Lindstrom pitched last year-He was the reliever from hell. Lindstrom must have lost us at least 10 games. If we had won half of those games…………….

As I prepare for all the wailing and gnashing of teeth when they finally get rid of the most over-rated player I’ve ever seen play, Dan Uggla. Dan Uggla is the guy who hits solo home runs when the game is already won or lost. The guy who never gets a hit with men on bases when the game is on the line. The most unclutch hitter around.

Ross Gload is a loss-but he will probably not perform for the Phillies who will then send him back to the Marlins while absorbing his salary which is what happened to Wes Helms

by jrhana on Dec 10, 2009 10:47 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Okay, so I’ll grant you Uggla isn’t good at an imaginary thing. But how’s he at baseball?

It's a good thing Larry Bird's initials weren't MJ. '80s basketball was confusing enough -- Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Marles Jarkley, Mominique Jilkins... Makeem Jolajuwon...

by 3.3seconds on Dec 11, 2009 2:23 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

This one reminds me of the Jacobs trade

A somewhat popular player who had a halfway decent run with the Marlins, but ultimately doesn’t fit in the plans. We probably got more for Jacobs, but that doesn’t mean we’re giving up any less.

Jacobs was released today by KC.

The more interesting part of the trade is that we got the Astro’s rule 5 pick and also made room on the roster. Which means we were able to pick up a 3B this morning.

http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports_baseball_marlins/2009/12/florida-marlins-rule-5-pick-to-complete-matt-lindstrom-deal.html

Why couldn’t the Marlins use their own pick though?
The Marlins also lost John Raynor to Pittsburgh.

by brickell on Dec 10, 2009 11:25 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

jimenes key to deal

because the marlins were afraid that jimenes was not going to be there. they wanted to move up and i think jimenes is going to make the roster and be the marlins 3B so where does that put Gaby and logan we will see in spring training .
have a nice day brickell

by mlb09 the show fan on Dec 10, 2009 1:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs