Preliminary agreement: Lowell to Texas for Max Ramirez

 

Texas continuing to be aggressive this offseason. More than likely this will open up an Adrian Beltre signing to Boston which has been linked for a while now. Lowell will probably be a 1B/DH for Texas (since they moved Micheal Young to 3B)

 

This is Max's fourth team he'll be traded to, and it seems that the 24 year old has been around forever.. Geez.

Edited December 10, 200916 yr by SoxAce

Robothal saying the deal could still blow up, hmmm.

 

Boston eating all of Lowell's 12M deal though, they must have really wanted to get him, and considering they'll probably pay Beltre at least $8M, I'm not sure if designating $20M to upgrade at 3B and possibly C, was the best use of resources there.

 

Think Texas have done well here.

I like this deal for both teams.

 

Texas gets the better end of the deal with a $3M Mike Lowell for Max Ramirez, who is a good prospect, but is definitely expendable for such a cheap extra bat. This is the type of deal that, along with the development of some pitching, could put them in contention all year. Assuming Ray gets about $1.5M or so in arb and the Lowell deal goes through, they've essentially traded Millwood + Ramirez for Ray, Harden, and Lowell while only increasing the payroll by about $2.8M from where they were. The other benefit is that because of the cash received on Lowell, if the Rangers do fall out of it, all 3 players could garner interest in July, so there's the potential of turning Millwood + Ramirez into a bunch of prospects that those guys would have never been worth on their own. Really nice offseason so far for Daniels.

 

For Boston, Lowell sucks at 3B even though he's won a few gold gloves, and they understandably wanted some better defense in the infield. Lowell was a sunk cost so they had to eat quite a bit to get anything for him as it is, and if you're Boston, that's not a huge deal. The only concern for them IMO is how many years they give Beltre (if that's the follow-up move). If they go 4+ on Beltre it's a bad move I think.

Well.. this deal was pending a physical and Lowell failed his physical. He'll have surgery on his thumb, but is expected to be ready by spring training.

I wouldn't be shocked to see them try and squeeze another $2 million out of the Sawks to get it done.

lols @ failing the physical. Mike Lowell is ALWAYS hurt

So... the Rangers need a right-hand power hitting 1b. They need the other team to cover salary and are willing to give up a good-hitting catcher for him. So... Konerko for Max Ramirez. Thereby, allowing us to trade Flowers... Anyone see where i'm going with this?

So... the Rangers need a right-hand power hitting 1b. They need the other team to cover salary and are willing to give up a good-hitting catcher for him. So... Konerko for Max Ramirez. Thereby, allowing us to trade Flowers... Anyone see where i'm going with this?

See where you're going, but it's a fairly complex deal...the Rangers here weren't willing to absorb that much salary on Lowell, and the Sox tend to not like to kick in money for guys they're already paying, and you pretty much have to set it up as a monster 3 team deal because you don't want to be left holding 2 MLB ready catchers and no 1b if part of the deal falls through

So... the Rangers need a right-hand power hitting 1b. They need the other team to cover salary and are willing to give up a good-hitting catcher for him. So... Konerko for Max Ramirez. Thereby, allowing us to trade Flowers... Anyone see where i'm going with this?

The Rangers also have one of the top rated, and many rate it #1, farm systems in baseball. You would think if any team could get A. Gonzalez it would be them. Of course, they made the mistake of trading him to SD to begin with.

The Rangers also have one of the top rated, and many rate it #1, farm systems in baseball. You would think if any team could get A. Gonzalez it would be them. Of course, they made the mistake of trading him to SD to begin with.

Why would the Rangers do that? They're not exactly strapped for LH power hitters, esp. in their ballpark.