Buying Low on Slowey

[Backtobanks]

From MLBTR:

Twins May Explore Kevin Slowey Trade

By Tim Dierkes [May 23 at 10:57am CST]

The Kevin Slowey relief experiment has ended, and a change of scenery appears to be in order. The 27-year-old control artist told Twins manager Ron Gardenhire he was having a hard time as a reliever, according to La Velle E. Neal III of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Slowey is headed back to Triple-A to get stretched out as a starter, but Gardenhire implied on ESPN 1500 that the right thing is to find the righty a starting opportunity with another club. Some team has a chance to buy low on Slowey, though, since he is capable of a sub-4.00 ERA. Slowey is earning $2.7MM this year, and is under team control through 2013 as an arbitration eligible player. Given how the 2011 season has gone so far, his 2012 raise should be limited.

 

Since the Twins will be selling soon, maybe we can give them some salary relief and plug a couple of holes at the same time. How about Cuddyer and Slowey for a package built around Colvin, Grabow (to help with the money issue), and young pitching (Stevens, Berg, Maine, Coleman, etc.). The additional cost to the Cubs would be the prorated share of $8.4 million (app. $5.5 million now). Slowey can be the #5 starter while Cuddyer can provide some power while playing RF/1B/PH. Both Cuddyer and Grabow come off the books after this year.

[TruffleShuffle]

that would be a God-awful deal for the twins.

[Sammy Sofa]

From MLBTR:

Twins May Explore Kevin Slowey Trade

By Tim Dierkes [May 23 at 10:57am CST]

The Kevin Slowey relief experiment has ended, and a change of scenery appears to be in order. The 27-year-old control artist told Twins manager Ron Gardenhire he was having a hard time as a reliever, according to La Velle E. Neal III of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Slowey is headed back to Triple-A to get stretched out as a starter, but Gardenhire implied on ESPN 1500 that the right thing is to find the righty a starting opportunity with another club. Some team has a chance to buy low on Slowey, though, since he is capable of a sub-4.00 ERA. Slowey is earning $2.7MM this year, and is under team control through 2013 as an arbitration eligible player. Given how the 2011 season has gone so far, his 2012 raise should be limited.

 

Since the Twins will be selling soon, maybe we can give them some salary relief and plug a couple of holes at the same time. How about Cuddyer and Slowey for a package built around Colvin, Grabow (to help with the money issue), and young pitching (Stevens, Berg, Maine, Coleman, etc.). The additional cost to the Cubs would be the prorated share of $8.4 million (app. $5.5 million now). Slowey can be the #5 starter while Cuddyer can provide some power while playing RF/1B/PH. Both Cuddyer and Grabow come off the books after this year.

 

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Magnificent. You never let us down.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Maybe Colvin and a young pitcher with some hint of value (Coleman/Jackson/Carpenter) would get us Slowey. Maybe not. As far as the Grabow/Cuddyer part of the deal, why? When was the last time 2 non contenders made a trade for random expiring contracts? No team, much less a well run team that happens to be miles away from contention will have any use for Grabow, nor will they want to send Cuddyer out of town for table scraps when they could get some decent prospects for him at the deadline.

[Backtobanks]

Maybe Colvin and a young pitcher with some hint of value (Coleman/Jackson/Carpenter) would get us Slowey. Maybe not. "

 

Way too high a price for Slowey.

 

 

"As far as the Grabow/Cuddyer part of the deal, why? When was the last time 2 non contenders made a trade for random expiring contracts? No team, much less a well run team that happens to be miles away from contention will have any use for Grabow, nor will they want to send Cuddyer out of town for table scraps when they could get some decent prospects for him at the deadline.

Maybe Colvin and a young pitcher with some hint of value (Coleman/Jackson/Carpenter) would get us Slowey. Maybe not. As far as the Grabow/Cuddyer part of the deal, why? When was the last time 2 non contenders made a trade for random expiring contracts? No team, much less a well run team that happens to be miles away from contention will have any use for Grabow, nor will they want to send Cuddyer out of town for table scraps when they could get some decent prospects for him at the deadline."

 

Why would the Twins make this deal? To save $5.5 million. You're kidding yourself if you think the Twins will get some decent prospects and salary relief for Cuddyer at the deadline.

[TruffleShuffle]

Why would the Twins make this deal? To save $5.5 million. You're kidding yourself if you think the Twins will get some decent prospects and salary relief for Cuddyer at the deadline.

 

cuddyer is a pretty good player who's versatile; why are they just going to dump him for nothing?

[Backtobanks]

Why would the Twins make this deal? To save $5.5 million. You're kidding yourself if you think the Twins will get some decent prospects and salary relief for Cuddyer at the deadline.

 

cuddyer is a pretty good player who's versatile; why are they just going to dump him for nothing?

 

He is a pretty good player, versatile, and makes $10.5 million. Obviously the Twins might get better prospects if they throw in some money.

[TruffleShuffle]

or they can just trade him to a team with money at the deadline and that team will only have to pay like $3-4m this year. in your plan they're trading him plus a back-of-the-rotation guy with some value for a useless relief pitcher, a bad pitching prospect (soon-to-be 28 year old jeff stevens, batting practice pitcher casey coleman, fungible 26 year old reliever scott maine or 27 year old who can't strike anyone out, justin berg), plus tyler colvin, who was just bounced down to the minors.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Unless your talking about a team in financial turmoil, they're not going to dump the guy for salary relief. They could get a solid prospect package for him, and that's more valuable than the cash. Even if they don't, the draft picks or pick they get for him if he leaves as an FA would be valuable as well. You can forget about getting him for Grabow and cash. Besides in the position were in, it doesn't make sense for us anyway. Wed only need him if we moved one of our outfielders or Pena, in which case, wed be in sell mode anyway, in which case we would not be picking up any salary.

[TruffleShuffle]

they don't automatically get draft picks when he leaves.

[Little Slide Rooter]

they don't automatically get draft picks when he leaves.

 

You know what I mean. When someone signs him, and Im sure they will. He must be at least a type B.

[SouthSideRyan]

Buying sLOWey.

[SouthSideRyan]

they don't automatically get draft picks when he leaves.

 

You know what I mean. When someone signs him, and Im sure they will. He must be at least a type B.

 

It's pretty damn unlikely they'd offer him arbitration.

[TruffleShuffle]

they don't automatically get draft picks when he leaves.

 

You know what I mean. When someone signs him, and Im sure they will. He must be at least a type B.

 

that's still not how it works.

[Little Slide Rooter]

they don't automatically get draft picks when he leaves.

 

You know what I mean. When someone signs him, and Im sure they will. He must be at least a type B.

 

It's pretty damn unlikely they'd offer him arbitration.

 

yeah, I flaked on that part. Still, hes a guy they'll get decent value for at the deadline. I mean weve gotten some OK fringe guys for the likes of Neifi Perez, Todd Walker, and Mike Fontenot. Id think that Cuddyer would bring in at least what we got for D Lee if nothing else due to his versatility. And who knows, maybe if he does go to a new team, Ill fianlly be able to tell him apart from Jason Kubel.

[Post Count Padder]

I wouldn't mind buying low, but I doubt the Twins would sell low for a return of Casey Coleman or Scott Maine.

[Backtobanks]

I'm not sure what the Twins might want for Cuddyer, but let's not go overboard about what a great player he is. The players he is most similar to at age 31 are Troy O'Leary, Aaron Rowand, Milton Bradley, and Bernard Gilkey. Add in that he would be owed about $5 million for a 3-month rental and I don't see too many teams offering "decent" prospects.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Now that De La Rosas season is over, Im surprised that the Rockies arent on the phone with the Twins as we speak. Sloweys probably the best available starting pitching option at this time.

[Post Count Padder]

Well now it looks like Slowey to the DL

[Backtobanks]

Well now it looks like Slowey to the DL

 

He would fit right in with the Cubs.