You know, all this Everett B.S. wouldn't be necessary if either one of these guys had come through in the first two months of the season, and they both had a chance. Rowand's re-emergence came too late, apparently. Now it looks as if Cotts is gone.

Supposedly its a pool of minor leaguers the Rangers will be chosing from. This is really interesting and really exciting. I can only hope I'll be happy after I hear the names.

 

Ring is a good prospect, Almonte is a fringe guy Salvo is nothing compared to what we have at that position and Mets are paying. Alomar is more valuable then Everett so I'd say at that them getting one major league guy in Jimenez means they get two pitching prospects (I'm guessing this cause its what the Rangers need) that the Sox give up. It would be foolish to give up anything good. Rauch should be the onl yof the top pitchers available. I could see Ginter going, but I don't know. Maybe Jim Bullard and Jon Rauch. One middle guy one guy that was once a top prospect.

We know we have Everett sans his salary; he waived his no trade clause; Rios and Jiminez are gone; we gave up three prospects; they insist on keeping the names a secret.

Great point Jim.

You gotta wonder if Aaron woulda been fine now that he's hitting and we could have kept all these prospects.

 

Sounds like we've given up royce and cotts.

Do you think we will regret these trades??

Why would the Rangers want DJ they already have Young and Arod up the middle, Where are they going to play him?

Apparently DJ is not going to Texas. Just part of the July 1 purge.

Here's to hoping KW traded Carlos Lee, the one in Rookie ball, and fooled John Hart at it.

Cerb, that is the funniest thing I heard all year.

Damn right that's funny. I'm still laughing.

Jim, I think youre a great poster but this post is ridiculous. Youre tellin me, its Dorns and JBs fault that we just got a guy with 51 RBIs? Well if it is, Dorn is God! I wouldnt care one bit if we lost Cotts. He has 39 walks in 68 IP at AA. You cant throw that many walks in the bigs and live to tell about it. Besides, Hart has to choose from a pool of eight prospects and Cotts isnt one of them. So your future AS pitcher is saved, God bless us all...

Sorry if I sounded mean there Jim. I just love the fact that we got Everett to help our offense. And even if we did lose Cotts, which we didnt, it wouldnt bother me...

Sorry if I sounded mean there Jim. I just love the fact that we got Everett to help our offense. And even if we did lose Cotts, which we didnt, it wouldnt bother me...

Yeah I am happy we are getting a guy hitting .198 in the last 5 weeks!

OldRoman, all I said was that both Rowand and Borchard were given big time opportunities in center, and neither one stepped up, until in the last 10 days when Rowand has improved his play. Obviously, it's too late for him for 2003. I said that if either JoeB or Aaron had played well from the start of the season, then this trade would not be deemed necessary. If Aaron had been hitting .270-.280 with some power and good defense and speed, all of which were expected, we would not be having these posts now.

I love the trade, KW has sent a message, we are going for it. We can always restock the minors, that is least of our worries.