Yesterday, as I messed around with my Twitter account, John Perrotto of the great website Baseball Prospectus, tweeted the following:
Keep hearing #Marlins are very willing to trade Josh Johnson right now for the right package.
It immediately evolves into a blog from MLBTR that reads: “Marlins Looking To Deal Josh Johnson”
I immediately responded with a tweet of my own.
Marlins Looking To Deal Josh Johnson? Ya gotta love Twitter. It beats the Joke of the Day calender I got last Xmas. Sorry Perrotto, not buying it.
Less than 3 minutes after my tweet, long time Marlins beat writer and MLB reporter for the Marlins website, Joe Frisaro, quickly responded:
#Marlins There is going to be plenty of speculation about Josh Johnson being trade bait. From what I’m hearing, don’t buy into it.
Thank you Mr. Frisaro.
(Sorry for the cheesy Photoshop image, it was a rush job.)
I love Twitter, but if I had to pick just one fault, it’s that it has evolved into a source of many outlandish claims and unsubstantiated rumors.
Legitimate rumors that were once backed with at least a small sampling of investigative reporting, have now been reduced to a one-sentence blurb.
Mostly it’s just bits of a conversation someone had at the local sports bar with some of their inebriated friends who are suddenly now referred to as “sources”. Luckily, it doesn’t require that much skill in separating the wheat from the chaff; all it takes is a little common sense.
Why would the Florida Marlins trade one of baseball’s best young righthanded starters when he is still under team control for two more years? The truth is that they are actually negotiating on a long term deal, a fact that was confirmed by a team source not long ago.
As I said in an earlier post at the start of the Hot Stove season, I’m taking on the role of policing the rumor mill and calling out those whose rumors fail to pass the sniff test.
What gets me is how so many fans can easily believe a rumor that a pitcher like Josh Johnson is trade bait, all while considering that their own team’s infinitely less talented prospects are untouchable and shouldn’t be traded.
It ain’t rocket science.
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oh damn I already had him penciled in as our #2 lol
We have to be realistic. Johnson would cost far more than Halladay would. Our system would be totally shredded. Maybe, worth shredding for this 26 yr old stud (in January), but the Marlins would be insane. Not gonna happen; fuhgedaboudit.
I hear ya Joe. On one hand Twitter can be great for building relationships and meeting cool people (for example, Twitter is how I first heard of this site) but on the other hand it’s a breeding ground for people to spread false stories. I’ve taken a simple approach to it. If I am following someone and I find out that they are spreading false stories on purpose, I quickly hit the unfollow button.
I do the same exact thing and just unfollow them. When I first joined Twitter almost a year ago I must have followed every Mets site, blog and fan I could find because I thought it was cool. In the last few months going back to around the trade deadline, I find myself hitting unfollow more than follow.
Generally I do not post on blogs, but I would like to say that this blog really forced me to do so! Thanks, really nice blog.
Wel, guess what, ‘buzz’ about this on the FAN today…and one guy made the comment that he believes it because ‘the Marlins have a history of doing that, they’ll try to sign a guy long-term, if he balks, they say ‘what can we get for him’ ‘ …and you know what? it makes sense from their nutty framework.
Now, i would NOT be surprised if the Marlins do trade Johnson. BUT forget about the Mets, they’d never trade him to the NL east.
If true, i see the Yanks, Red Sox, Angels, Dodgers vying for him. And, if the Yanks got Johnson, that’d increase odds Mets could get Doc Halladay.
If Red Sox got Johnson, then Yanks get Halladay. What do we wish for? The price for Halladay will be high for us. Is it worth it? i agonize over it.
This is the hird site I’ve seen say the fish won’t deal with us. Why wouldn’t they? How about delgado and piazza/zeile? If he’s available get him over Halliday! Maybe we can get uggla or cantu for about the same as it would take to get doc! Then lock JJ up long term.
Thrice burned? i doubt it. Go for it. It’ll cost EVERY prospect we have. Much higher cost than Doc; Johnson’s 26 next year; Halladay, 33. And you want Uggla & Cantu as well for what..?…our entire roster excluding our core?
i’ll dream for Plan B.
I don’t see why a package of pelfrey niese holt Flores and fmart wouldn’t go it. I mean fine forget them throwing in another player. I think it’s fair for just JJ. If the marlins are really going to trade him it really can’t hurt to try. I still would rather him than doc.
Santana
Johnson
wolf
Maine
Ollie
lineup
Reyes
castillo
wright
holliday/bay
beltran
Murphy
fcore
catcher
pitcher
That’s only about a 25-30 mil spree and gives a very dangerous team for a few years. And with JJ under team control for 2 more years doesn’t hurt when trying to add future pieces
Omg, i saw something that would make me throw up…….According to Ken Davidoff of New York Newsday, the Mets had internal discussions about acquiring Pat Burrell from the Rays. Could this be the 3rd team the mets and cubs were looking for in this Castillo/Bradley trade mess….Cubs seem willing to trade Bradley for Castillo, Tampa seems interested in Bradley and now this Newsday thing with the mets having interest in Burrell…ughhhh gross…Castillo to Cubs, Bradley to Rays, Burrell to Mets….ughhh the only good thing is Burrell is on his walk year but still. Ughh they do this they have got to bring back Delgado to play 1b because Burrell won’t do squat.
I would be totally disgusted as a die hard mets fan to see the Mets get Burrell. I have also read a couple of articles with the Mets wanting to deal Castillo for Bradley. I just hope the Mets/Cubs can find a better team to deal with than Tampa. It would have been nice to see Kevin Millwood here. I just hope the Mets can start getting some deals/signings rolling next month.
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