Mike Carp DFA

[brewcrewdue80]

Any reason the Brewers should look at him? 488k salary this year Arb years the following 3.

 

I guess the question is:

Who do you want more? Mat Gamel? or Mike Carp? Mike Carp or Taylor Green?

 

 

edit add: He is 26 going in to 27 with more experience than combined by Gamel/Green.

[adambr2]

I'll pass. Just seems like a poor man's Ishikawa to me, albeit a slightly younger version.

 

I would definitely rather have Gamel as I think he still has more upside. Green too only because he's more versatile and can fill in at 2B or 3B.

[topper09er]

Ill take Mike Trout (who the angels picked with the yankee pick they got because mark teixeira was ranked higher than CC) still rediculous to value a 1B over a stud ace

[craigharmann]

If you can't get a Trout.....gotta go with a Carp?

[Kelbysdaddy]

I've heard that the belief is they already have a trade basically set up involving him and that is why he was dfa'd. Hard to think he's the least valuable player on Seattle's 40 man.

[Ennder]

He has a bad shoulder and doesn't really fit a need since he is left handed so isn't really the OF depth guy we need either. I'd pass on him.

[TooLiveBrew]

Give a little credit where it's... due

 

McCalvy blog post

 

Mariners general manager Jack Zdurencik told me tonight that he was engaged with a “good number” of teams about Mike Carp, the outfielder-first baseman designated for assignment last week, and was closing on a trade.

 

“I would say there’s a good chance we get something done in the next 24-48 hours,” Zdurencik said.

 

Could he go to the Brewers? Milwaukee GM Doug Melvin, Zdurencik’s former boss when Zdurencik was the Brewers’ amateur scouting director, confirmed he’d called about Carp but reiterated he was focused at the moment on finding an internal solution to the club’s first base quandary.

[JohnBriggs12]

He has a bad shoulder and doesn't really fit a need since he is left handed so isn't really the OF depth guy we need either. I'd pass on him.

 

Except Gamel was left handed too and he was going to be the 5th outfielder once Hart returned. I imagine Davis will be 5th OF until Hart returns under that scenario. I'd be okay with Carp. He wasn't all that bad in 2011, and has played some OF. Now if he has shoulder issues that prevented him from playing OF, then that's a problem.

[DR28]

He has a bad shoulder and doesn't really fit a need since he is left handed so isn't really the OF depth guy we need either. I'd pass on him.

 

Except Gamel was left handed too and he was going to be the 5th outfielder once Hart returned. I imagine Davis will be 5th OF until Hart returns under that scenario. I'd be okay with Carp. He wasn't all that bad in 2011, and has played some OF. Now if he has shoulder issues that prevented him from playing OF, then that's a problem.

 

I hope Doug makes a deal for Carp... He's a Gamel clone... Bats LH and plays 1B, LF & RF.

[Kelbysdaddy]

boston acquired carp, which makes no freaking sense at all.

[reillymcshane]

With Carp to Boston, I imagine that Overbay will be cut loose. It would be foolish for Boston to keep both of them.

 

I bet Overbay is with Milwaukee by this weekend.

[brewcrewdue80]

Well, I wonder what the Brewer's interest would have been in Carp had Gamel's injury happened a week earlier? Anyway, Boston has a ton of 1b now. let's see who doesn't make their team and if they fit our 1b needs.

[Invader3K]

The Brewers don't exactly need to rush at this point. It's a possibility that someone better than Overbay might become available as spring training winds on. No reason to make a move just to make a move right now.