Comments on: Brandon Lyon signs with Houston http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2009/12/brandon-lyon-signs-with-houston/ News, views, and analysis on the Detroit Tigers and baseball Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:06:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Winter Meetings Day 4 http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2009/12/brandon-lyon-signs-with-houston/#comment-136202 Winter Meetings Day 4 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:26:43 +0000 http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2009/12/brandon-lyon-signs-with-houston/#comment-136202 [...] Meetings Day 4Brandon Lyon signs with HoustonCarlos Guillen RumorsMore notes on the tradeThe Tigers catching situationWinter Meetings Day [...] [...] Meetings Day 4Brandon Lyon signs with HoustonCarlos Guillen RumorsMore notes on the tradeThe Tigers catching situationWinter Meetings Day [...]

]]> By: TSE http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2009/12/brandon-lyon-signs-with-houston/#comment-136186 TSE Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:43:30 +0000 http://www.detroittigersweblog.com/2009/12/brandon-lyon-signs-with-houston/#comment-136186 So we traded Brandon Lyon for the pitcher package we rec'd in return, along with whatever that pick turns out to be. Same goes for Rodney if we lose him too. Therefore we are giving Edwin + Lyon + Rodney for Scherzer + Coke + Schlereth, and then we swapped Grandy for AJ and 2 sandwiches. I think the trade looks much worse from this perspective than it does as a stand-alone. Oh well, pitching is the last of my concerns at this point. I just hope the Tigers select one of these interesting positional players that are available here in the Rule 5 draft. There's a couple of interesting catchers such as Koby Clemens, Matt McBride, and Anthony Recker. I wonder if the release of Ryan is in hopes to deter the teams ahead of us from taking one of these catchers. Perhaps Dolsi is bait too if there are some teams that look like strong candidates to take catchers that might rather have Dolsi or Ryan. So we traded Brandon Lyon for the pitcher package we rec’d in return, along with whatever that pick turns out to be. Same goes for Rodney if we lose him too.

Therefore we are giving Edwin + Lyon + Rodney for Scherzer + Coke + Schlereth, and then we swapped Grandy for AJ and 2 sandwiches. I think the trade looks much worse from this perspective than it does as a stand-alone.

Oh well, pitching is the last of my concerns at this point. I just hope the Tigers select one of these interesting positional players that are available here in the Rule 5 draft. There’s a couple of interesting catchers such as Koby Clemens, Matt McBride, and Anthony Recker.

I wonder if the release of Ryan is in hopes to deter the teams ahead of us from taking one of these catchers. Perhaps Dolsi is bait too if there are some teams that look like strong candidates to take catchers that might rather have Dolsi or Ryan.

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