Traded to Seattle for LH reliever.

a little more detail maybe???

 

He was traded for lefty Matt Thornton.

Edited March 20, 200620 yr by Jimbo's Drinker

That is all the Score reported so far. Offman just broke in with it.

Damn.

Thornton looks pretty bad

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/7212

 

Ross Gload is happy today.

At least Thornton's consistent. Lefties had a WHIP of 1.69 vs him, and righties had a WHIP of 1.68. He's not very good.

Quite disappointing that we held on to Borchard so long that all we could get is a mediocre reliever that makes Marte look like he has pinpoint control. Oh well.

Waste of a trade IMO. Guess Gload couldnt net us s*** in the trade market.

Edited March 20, 200620 yr by RockRaines

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/T/matt-thornton.shtml

 

Thortons minor league numbers as well.

Longest Homer in USCF history: Joe Borchard

BTW, kudos to everyone (JimH, etc.) who predicted Borchard wouldn't make the roster this season.

Longest Homer in USCF history: Joe Borchard

 

I thought that was Hawk's nose?

I guess they obviously weren't planning on keeping him on the roster so Kenny got SOMETHING for him. Who knows, if Coop can help this guy with his control he might be SOMETHING.

Longest Homer in USCF history: Joe Borchard

 

Biggest bust in White Sox history: Joe Borchard

 

Given what we got for him, it appears that Seattle's scouts have been doing their homework.

Pretty sad that's all the trade value that Borchard had. :banghead

 

This Thornton guy looks like he has no control whatsoever. Meanwhile, the Mariners look like they now have a fallback plan for Everett at DH.

I guess they obviously weren't planning on keeping him on the roster so Kenny got SOMETHING for him.  Who knows, if Coop can help this guy with his control he might be SOMETHING.

Yeah, he better work his magic. Looks like he sucked in the minor leagues as well.

 

This doesn't guarantee Thornton a spot on the roster does it? I was kind of looking forward to them giving Logan a shot at it.

Goodbye and good riddance LTP. It's not like Borchard or Gload were worth s*** in a trade anyways, hopefully Gload has a nice year for us.

Wow, Thornton was a 1st round pick in 1998 (22nd overall). Sounds like he may be as big of a bust as Borchie.

I'm kinda sad to see Borch go, as he was a truely nice guy, and I really wanted to see him feed some crow to some of the more bitter anti-Joe crowd. Hopefully he does something in Seattle, and we can here about how Kenny was stupid to make that deal...

clocked as high as 97mph with no control

 

maybe coop can get him under control ala Jenks.

 

This is a low risk/high reward type move for the sox. If they can get him under control sometime this year, he has a hell of an arm.

I'm kinda sad to see Borch go, as he was a truely nice guy, and I really wanted to see him feed some crow to some of the more bitter anti-Joe crowd.  Hopefully he does something in Seattle, and we can here about how Kenny was stupid to make that deal...

 

Joe is a nice guy, but he happens to suck at baseball. I'm not too worried about us regretting letting him go.

clocked as high as 97mph with no control

 

maybe coop can get him under control ala Jenks.

 

This is a low risk/high reward type move for the sox.  If they can get him under control sometime this year, he has a hell of an arm.

 

I've seen him pitch a lot, and he's more in the 92 mph range consistently. He does have a very good arm though. I think we faced him in his MLB debut as a starter, and only beat him cause of control issues.

Borchard isn't going to get any playing time with Seattle unless one or two of Ibanez, Reed, Ichiro, Everett, or Lawton gets injured.

waste of a deal. but heh ill take it.

Is there any chance there's a PTBNL attached to this deal somewhere?