PHI indicating to teams it would cost three small countries and two oceans to make a trade for Cole...

PHI indicating to teams it would cost three small countries and two oceans to make a trade for Cole Hamels. Which means: Not being traded.

Buster Olney

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Fuck. We’re never going to see him again, are we?

Some people don't think it be what it is, but it do.

by TheOrangeCone on Nov 15, 2011 10:55 PM EST reply actions

I am intrigued about what the asking price would be…..

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by Justin F. on Nov 16, 2011 12:05 AM EST reply actions

This is absurd. Why are they even having this conversation? I would rather trade Cliff Lee and Chase Utley than Cole Hamels. Lock this man up for 5 years. Just do it. Don’t think about it.

Moyer for 5th Starter in 2012.

by Missing Jamie Moyer on Nov 16, 2011 6:44 AM EST reply actions

so you're saying there's a chance?

by taco pal on Nov 16, 2011 9:21 AM EST reply actions

I’ll take Liechtenstein, Andorra, and Qatar along with the Pacific Ocean and an OTBNL.

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by joetimek on Nov 16, 2011 11:00 AM EST reply actions

Maybe throw in 3 Hawaiian islands too. The good kind, not the leper ones.

by ThinMountainAir on Nov 18, 2011 2:17 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Heh.

by taco pal on Nov 18, 2011 3:52 PM EST up reply actions

Any grown man who calls himself “Buster” is not worth listening to.

I hope he’s right, of course, but still.

by Phrozen on Nov 16, 2011 1:02 PM EST reply actions

anyone care to summarize Kevin Goldstein’s Hamels proposals in ESPN/BPro today? just curious.

by perfectdepth on Nov 16, 2011 1:53 PM EST reply actions

It’s a list of teams with the will (and maybe the prospects) to get him: Yankees (Manny Banuelos, Hector Noesi, Austin Romine, Mason Williams), Red Sox (Will Middlebrooks, Jed Lowrie, Brandon Jacobs, Felix Doubront), Cubs (Brett Jackson, Andrew Cashner, Junior Lake), Rangers (Martin Perez, Mike Olt, Jorge Alfaro, Roman Mendez), Tigers (Jacob Turner, Casey Crosby, Danry Vazquez, Gustavo Nunez), Rockies (Drew Pomeranz, Chad Bettis, Charlie Blackmon), Dodgers (Dee Gordon, Allen Webster, James Baldwin) and Nats (Brad Peacock, Derek Norris, Michael Taylor, Stephen Lombardozzi).

It also says it would be bad to trade him now, but if they did, they’d have to look for a starter that could step into the rotation now, bullpen help, middle infield help, and “athletes with upside”.

The only one of those prospect groups that would even get me to stop and think is the one from the Yankees. And even that’s not enough.

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by wildcatlh on Nov 16, 2011 2:03 PM EST up reply actions