Casey Blake

Their recent move of adding Casey Blake can either go one of two ways. The more likely way (aka the Dodger way): They regret it every second once Jonathan Meloan is blowing people away as the new hot closer and Carlos Santana is playing guitar for the crowd in Cleveland, much like Nancy Bea here in LA. The less likely (and best case scenario): This is a complete wash. Meloan becomes a marginal middle reliever and Santana breaks his hand, limiting him to ukulele duty while

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Or they could shift the entire infield around if Casey Blake is dealt, and that’s the most likely outcome of this situation—other than merely returning Cabrera to second sack. The Dodgers were interested in Blake as part of a Sabathia swap, and the Rays have been rumored to want him, though it’s not clear where he’d fit in. He’s certainly a good corner man in the infield or outfield, and could be a supersub to a contending team that wants to give up a lot for him. If anything might happen from Cabrera’s work at short, this is it, but it may just be a case of using Cabrera where he worked best in Buffalo.

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oll would have increased by $7-9 million this year with the addition of Sabathia, Jamey Carroll and Casey Blake had the trade gone through. I don’t even know where to start with this. This is the same moron who tosses $19 million to Andruw Jones, $16 million to Jason Schmitt, $9.5 million to Nomar Garciaparra and he is terrified of a trade that would increase payroll by $9 million? Granted he would have tried to sign CC to an extension and what not (and that would be about $25 million/year), but this is for the best pitcher in the game, not to mention a platoon player (who can play short) and a 3rd basemen. Everything the Dodgers wanted all in a package, and he vetoes it. It’s go to mean something when other teams won’t take on any of your high paid players because all of your high paid players are broken down and useless. So instead of moving towards a winning franchise, McCourt seems to love to meddle in mediocrity because we are dumb enough to keep going to games and to watch a bunch of turds in Dodger Blue “play baseball”. The best part of this trade was that we would keep ALL The high end prospects and could unload all the crappy players (Schmitt, Lowe, Nomar, Andruw, Kent) after next season and it would all be good. We are not a small market team, but apparently that is how the owner sees it. He is ready to try and turn Dodger stadium into a revenue service year round with his renovations and he is willing to increase prices to watch crap on the field but unwilling to make any moves of consequence to make the team actually look professional.

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and Casey Blake is no more. The Brewers, in a possible drunken haze traded four minor leaguers (including the perpetually well traveled “player to be named later”) in what appears to be a great move for the Brew Crew. They have no interest in keeping C.C. outside of this year if it is going to cost them a lot (and it likely will) so they will be able to pick up a couple of draft picks from the next team that signs him, and get to use the skills of a man in a contract year who is trying to make a good impression on any team that’s courting him. Smart move by the Brewers that is pretty much win, win. The Indians got a good package, but one has to wonder what they could have fleeced from the Dodgers if their deal went through. My exaggeration from the top is probably not too far off.

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