If the Orioles are shopping Tejada

[USSoccer]

OC Register[/url]"]he Angels continued to forge through obstacles in their aggressive push to trade for Baltimore Orioles slugger Miguel Tejada.

 

It appears the Angels added a third player – possibly 19-year-old pitching prospect Nick Adenhart – to a deal that already included pitcher Ervin Santana and minor-league shortstop Erick Aybar.

 

The Washington Post reported today the Angels, Dodgers and Houston Astros remain the final three teams in the Tejada bidding.

 

If true, the Orioles would be insane not to take that offer.

 

Absolutely insane. Where do the Angels play Tejada, though? Would he agree to play 3B?

 

Per ESPN, Tejada doesn't want to play 3B:

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2534276

 

I don't want to go anywhere to play third base. [shortstop] is the position I've always played," Tejada said before the Orioles' 13-11 loss to the Chicago White Sox on Saturday -- although he did say he wouldn't rule it out in the future. "I don't want to disappoint myself and I don't want to disappoint anybody else. If I go somewhere else, I am going to try. But it's not the same [as] if I was going to be playing short."

Edited July 30, 2006 by USSoccer

[E.J.]

OC Register[/url]"]he Angels continued to forge through obstacles in their aggressive push to trade for Baltimore Orioles slugger Miguel Tejada.

 

It appears the Angels added a third player – possibly 19-year-old pitching prospect Nick Adenhart – to a deal that already included pitcher Ervin Santana and minor-league shortstop Erick Aybar.

 

The Washington Post reported today the Angels, Dodgers and Houston Astros remain the final three teams in the Tejada bidding.

 

If true, the Orioles would be insane not to take that offer.

 

Absolutely insane. Where do the Angels play Tejada, though? Would he agree to play 3B?

 

I don't know. From everything I've read it sounds like Tejada doesn't want to play 3rd base, but Orlando Cabrera would be willing to switch positions if Tejada was brought in. Stupid move, since Cabrera is easily the better defender of the two.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Sounds like the Angels-O's trade is probably dead because Tejada won't sign off on moving to third base and the Angels won't move Kendrick. I guess adding Adenhart is in response to the Angels rejecting Kendrick. I'd take the package if I were the O's, but Tejada has the right to ask for a trade in the offseason and he might do it if he's stuck at third.

 

The Rangers also want Tejada to play third.

[ZMovieman]

Apparently according to SI.com, the Rangers and Astros have also inquired. The Astros offer includes Lidge and Ensberg. Wow. I'm betting the Astros pull it off with that offer.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/jon_heyman/07/30/angels.orioles/index.html

[jjgman21]

everyone keeps offering a 3B to the Orioles. what would they do with Mora? didn't they just extend him? I would think he lacks the range and durabililty anymore to play short.

 

just my opinion, I wouldn't find the Astros offer attractive unless the third player is a top prospect.

 

 

 

I think Angelos is just playing games and will keep Tejada.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

everyone keeps offering a 3B to the Orioles. what would they do with Mora? didn't they just extend him? I would think he lacks the range and durabililty anymore to play short.

 

just my opinion, I wouldn't find the Astros offer attractive unless the third player is a top prospect.

 

 

 

I think Angelos is just playing games and will keep Tejada.

 

Mora to LF?

[jjgman21]

everyone keeps offering a 3B to the Orioles. what would they do with Mora? didn't they just extend him? I would think he lacks the range and durabililty anymore to play short.

 

just my opinion, I wouldn't find the Astros offer attractive unless the third player is a top prospect.

 

 

 

I think Angelos is just playing games and will keep Tejada.

 

Mora to LF?

 

hasn't he suffered several leg injuries the past few years? Mora's numbers are way down, but I think they extended him, so I'd think they would want to play him somewhere, just hard to figure a place for him.

[E.J.]

The Tejada talks just keep getting more insane by the minute. The latest:

 

Baltimore Sun[/url]"]In a potential blockbuster deal, the Orioles have discussed sending All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada to Houston for a package that would include Astros ace Roy Oswalt.

 

Several industry sources confirmed the Orioles and Astros are negotiating dealing Tejada for third baseman Morgan Ensberg, shortstop Adam Everett and Oswalt, 28, who has already won 91 major-league games.

 

At this point, the Orioles are not inclined to make the deal barring changes, said several club sources. The Orioles' main concern is that they'd only have Oswalt, who will be a free agent after the 2007 season, for one season and then he'd sign a lucrative offer elsewhere.

[Mephistopheles]

Jesus....

 

 

They get an ace, a GG SS and a 3B who is good every other year with next year being good.

[Brian]

The Astros are insane to even think about that deal.

[CP_414]

The Tejada talks just keep getting more insane by the minute. The latest:

 

Baltimore Sun[/url]"]In a potential blockbuster deal, the Orioles have discussed sending All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada to Houston for a package that would include Astros ace Roy Oswalt.

 

Several industry sources confirmed the Orioles and Astros are negotiating dealing Tejada for third baseman Morgan Ensberg, shortstop Adam Everett and Oswalt, 28, who has already won 91 major-league games.

 

At this point, the Orioles are not inclined to make the deal barring changes, said several club sources. The Orioles' main concern is that they'd only have Oswalt, who will be a free agent after the 2007 season, for one season and then he'd sign a lucrative offer elsewhere.

 

If Baltimore doesn't take that deal they are freaking nuts. Seriously, why even pretend like you might trade the guy if you won't take that trade?

[cbbryan]

The Tejada talks just keep getting more insane by the minute. The latest:

 

Baltimore Sun[/url]"]In a potential blockbuster deal, the Orioles have discussed sending All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada to Houston for a package that would include Astros ace Roy Oswalt.

 

Several industry sources confirmed the Orioles and Astros are negotiating dealing Tejada for third baseman Morgan Ensberg, shortstop Adam Everett and Oswalt, 28, who has already won 91 major-league games.

 

At this point, the Orioles are not inclined to make the deal barring changes, said several club sources. The Orioles' main concern is that they'd only have Oswalt, who will be a free agent after the 2007 season, for one season and then he'd sign a lucrative offer elsewhere.

 

If Baltimore doesn't take that deal they are freaking nuts. Seriously, why even pretend like you might trade the guy if you won't take that trade?

 

They want Berkman and Lidge too? Why wouldn't they take that?

[CaliforniaRaisin]

The Astros are insane to even think about that deal.

 

The Orioles are even more insane to not make it. If it's true...

[Ding Dong Johnson]

The Astros are insane to even think about that deal.

 

I think it's a terrific deal. :wink:

[E.J.]

Ken Rosenthal[/url]"]The Astros are out of the Miguel Tejada sweepstakes.

 

"It's over," an Astros official told FOXSports.com Sunday night. "We told them we're not dealing with them anymore."

 

The Astros' frustration apparently stemmed from their belief that they had a Tejada blockbuster in place Friday night, only to have that deal and later proposals quashed by Orioles owner Peter Angelos.

 

But there may have been another issue.

 

The Astros, according to a major-league official with knowledge of the discussions, feared that the Orioles would flip their most prized acquisition for Tejada — Astros right-hander Roy Oswalt — to Houston's cross-state rival, the Texas Rangers.

 

The Orioles, according to the official, intended to trade Oswalt to the Rangers for a package of three players — third baseman Hank Blalock, Triple-A shortstop Joaquin Arias and one of the Rangers' top pitching prospects.

 

They also would have ended up with two other players from the Astros — third baseman Morgan Ensberg and shortstop Adam Everett — effectively making the deal a 5-for-1 for Tejada.

 

The Orioles FO and ownership need to have their heads examined. They had Roy Oswalt in their laps and they screwed it up. I would be pissed if I were an Oriole fan.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

That whole situation is like the twilight zone of GM ineptitude. The Astros craziness saved them from their craziness.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Ken Rosenthal[/url]"]blah, blah, blah

 

The Orioles FO and ownership need to have their heads examined. They had Roy Oswalt in their laps and they screwed it up. I would be pissed if I were an Oriole fan.

 

Wow.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

I cannot believe the Astros offered that package and I can't believe Angelos would have traded him too for Blalock, Arias and one of the DVD boys. Oswalt seems to be greatly undervalued here.

[Laura]

The Washington Post[/url]"] The Orioles spent the day pondering offers from the Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros and determined they simply were not good enough.

 

"Right now the chances of him departing the Orioles are extremely unlikely," one high-ranking Baltimore official said Sunday evening. "What has been proposed so far has easily been turned down."

 

Of the three teams, several baseball sources say, the Astros -- offering a package centered on third baseman Morgan Ensberg and shortstop Adam Everett -- have been the most aggressive. According to several reports the Astros at one point offered star pitcher Roy Oswalt, but no deal involving Oswalt had been presented to owner Peter Angelos as of 9 p.m. on Sunday, according to a high-ranking team source, an indication those talks weren't serious.

 

The Astros appear to be a favorable destination for Tejada because they would not ask him to change positions.

 

"I'm playing shortstop," Tejada reiterated on Sunday. "I want to play short. I play shortstop here. If I'm going to be a winner I want it to be at my position. I don't try to do anything that I can't do [just] to be on a winning team. Right now I'm happy to play shortstop here. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win playing shortstop."

 

The Angels, who have Orlando Cabrera at shortstop, would almost certainly ask Tejada to play third base. The Angels have said they did not want to move Cabrera to third.

 

"A lot of people are trying to match [Tejada] up with our club," Angels Manager Mike Scioscia told reporters in Boston. "When he comes out strongly and is not ready to commit to [playing third], it puts it in a different context. We're only going to do things for this club if they fit and we'll try to move forward."