Lastings Milledge to WASH, Brian Schneider And Ryan Church to NYM

[aracko]

Nice scoop MLBTRADERUMORS.com

 

EDIT: Transaction icon and removing all caps from title. -PF

[Tbadder]

Nice job Mets. You won that one.

[patrickgpe]

yeah thats a great trade for the mets. you have to wonder about jim bowden.

[aracko]

I wonder what their next move is. Castro, Estrada, Schneider.............

[TooLiveBrew]

Johnny looks like the odd man out in that trio. Nice trade by Omar Minaya. Milledge is going to have to become a star player to even make this trade even. That's a nice job by a GM of filling a LF vacancy...

 

*COUGH!* http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[dadofandrew]

I think the Mets should have gotten more myself. Two solid, yet far from star players for a top prospect who is still extremely young doesn't impress me much.

[Katuluu]

Well Milledge will be a star player. While Church is a solid role player and Schneider is a nice piece as well, this trade screams Kazmir for Zambrano.

[erbacaine04]

Yeah Latings was going for a lot more last year at the trade deadline..... even sounded like there was talk of Lating Millidge for Zito on the Giants...

 

Church is injury prone...and so is Schnieder...both solid players but Lastings potentially could be a very good player

 

but sounds like they just might try to trade Estrada and if they cant just non-tender him .... which means then Mota basically was a Free Agent signing since the Mets got nothing for him...lol

[mothershipconnection]

If Milledge realizes his potential, the Nationals absolutely clean up in this deal. Church is a nice player when healthy, but he didn't exactly light it up last year while playing mostly LF.

[homer]

The shine has sort of worn off of Milledge the last few years. Change of scenery might do him some good - I'd say value is equal right now but this may end up being like the Sheffield trade for the Brewers if Milledge matures and realizes his potential.

[erbacaine04]

Johnny looks like the odd man out in that trio. Nice trade by Omar Minaya. Milledge is going to have to become a star player to even make this trade even. That's a nice job by a GM of filling a LF vacancy...

 

*COUGH!* http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

 

Left Field IMO is not all that important.... I would love to have Bay, mike Cammeron, or a host of names...but really its NOT that important... We can have a platoon of Gross/Dillion and have it be more succesfull then last years platoon.

 

Gross/Dillion platoon would get us a .280 BA/ .350 OBP/ 20 HRs/ 80 RBIs

 

They would be perfect in the 2 hole behind Weeks...because both guys know how to hit for contact and do not strike out that much....plus both did very well batting 2nd last year..especially when Gross came back up in Mid August and helped ignite the Brewer O with a healthy Weeks.

 

I of course would love to have a bigger name guy...but seriously with the Power of Fielder, Braun, Hart..the brewers need more OBP guys then anything else..so Gross and Dillion fit that and Gross hits Righties ery well and Dillion is good against Lefties...

[radman12484]

Do teams actually go 3 catchers deep to start a season? Someone has to be on the move or something.

[crewcrazy]

I'd say this means that Estrada's pretty much gone. Castro's their offensive guy and Schneider's their defensive guy. I like this deal short-term for the Mets, but if Milledge ever gets his head screwed on straight, the Mets could be regretting giving him away to a division opponent.

[Team Canada]

I keep laughing at that quote by SeriesFinale in your sig. Classic.

[patrickgpe]

Do teams actually go 3 catchers deep to start a season? Someone has to be on the move or something.

i could see estrada being non-tendered and this move was just a way for the mets to purge themselves of Mota.

[tomter38]

The mets offered Estrada to the Nats in the deal "for free" but they weren't interested according to Rosenthal, so it's pretty guaranteed that Estrada is going to be non-tendered

[Fatter than Joey]

i could see estrada being non-tendered and this move was just a way for the mets to purge themselves of Mota.

 

I figured the Mets would do this. A couple of really solid moves by Minya

[JoeHova]

This trade doesn't seem to make that much sense for the Mets. Church is a good player, but he's a lot older than Milledge and doesn't have the upside of Lastings. Plus, Lastings is already pretty good himself (he hit about average for a corner OF last year and he was only 22). Schneider isn't the worst catcher in baseball but he's nothing special and is signed for $10 mill over the next 2 years. I guess they wanted defense from the catcher spot pretty badly.

 

To conclude, I like this trade for the Nats, but I don't think it's a hugely horrible deal for the Mets like the Kazmir deal was. Church is under control for 4 more years so they have him almost as long as they would have had Milledge and Church is a useful player.

 

This reminds me of the trade the Magic just made with the Lakers. The Magic traded a young player with upside (Trevor Ariza) for a similar, but older player (Maurice Evans), and an ok player who filled a hole (Brian Cook, who can hit the 3 as a frontcourt player). So, the Lakers and Nats come out ahead in terms of absolute value, but for the Mets and Magic the trades make sense too because they get 2 useful guys for one.

[patrickgpe]

The mets offered Estrada to the Nats in the deal "for free" but they weren't interested according to Rosenthal, so it's pretty guaranteed that Estrada is going to be non-tendered

if thats true, that is sad. I can't believe he was our starting catcher. The nats have no starting caliber catcher and still would not take estrada

[twobrewers]

I love this trade for the Nationals. Milledge has by far the heighest ceiling. They weren't going to compete anytime soon.

 

That said, it is hard to blame the Mets. Milledge needed a change of scenery. If this was the best they could get for him - so be it.

 

Estrada. Wow. He might be out of baseball this year.

[SoCalBrewfan]

Wow. Milledge and Church might put up similar offensive numbers next year...if they were similar in other ways it might make sense for the Mets as a realignment from RHB to LHB. But consider that Church is 29 and Milledge is 22, loaded with tools, has more defensive value...down the road this could look very ugly to Mets fans. They'll be screaming for sure...they were thinking Milledge straight up for a stud pitcher at one point.

 

Fascinating. Gotta go read primer now...they'll be howling for Minaya's hide for sure.

[Ennder]

I'd say the nats won this one big time.

[DannyKmilw]

Anyone see Austin Kearns moving somewhere now??? with Pena, Lastings, and Logan possibly being the starters there in D.C.

[brettac1]

The Nats killed on this one. Church is just an average player, Milledge has the chance to be special. Schneider = yawn.

[Roscoe Chill]

Don't the Brewers look silly now for basically paying a guy the Mets didn't want to pay, when they just could have non-tendered Estrada themselves? I think the Mets are laughing.