Loading ...Red-Hot Mama breaks the news that Tony Womack has been DFA’ed. Well, she broke the news that AP/ESPN.com has broken the news.
Womack’s leaving to make room for Cody Ross, who the Reds acquired from the Dodgers for a PTBNL. The Reds official site is still silent, but the Dodgers have announced the Ross deal.
ESPN’s got it also.
Am I right in thinking that the Reds have to keep Ross on the ML roster or send him through the waiver process to get him to Louisville?
He’s out of options…. He’s in Cincinnati for the summer.
When Junior’s ready to come off, you have to believe that either McCracken or Ross has to go…unless they’re thinking about putting Dunn back at 1B to keep Freel in the lineup, then maybe Hatteburg goes?
I was reading some more on Ross. I can’t figure out why the Dodgers would let this guy go. Krivsky got Phillips for the player to be named and he’s been doing pretty well. I’m sure he went a long way toward showing Womack to the door. Let’s see if K’s got the knack for stealing some talent.
I meant David Ross, the catcher, not the newly acquired Cody Ross. Sorry.
Good trade. He’s doing a good job of getting some…essentially…free talent.
I don’t think Phillips is going to continue to be Alfonso Soriano with defense (when Soriano was good) but he had a good pedigree.
And Ross is a good 4th OFer to have.
Good team depth.
when jr comes back it seems like it has to be mccracken who goes. then maybe kriv can find a way to ship javy for a reliever.
Hopefully kriv can find a taker for womack and the minor leaguer he gets for him will be as good as the one we’re giving up for ross, making it essentially a womack for ross deal, which no one could really argue with at this point.
I’d be impressed if someone offers Krivsky anything for Womack.
And I have to think that McCracken leaves when Jr. returns. Unless a catcher is traded.
Maybe if he looks hard enough, K can find us some pitchers.
I don’t think this signals that McCracken is going anywhere. I think it signals that an Austin Kearns for pitching deal is imminent.
Womack Sent Packing
The Reds and Tony Womack parted ways today as Cody Ross joins Cincinnati in an uncompleted trade. This reminds me of a story I read in an old Bill James Abstract where someone asks, “How many hits will Omar Moreno…
On another note, I have to feel for Womack. He pretty much had the door slammed in his face. I know it is a cold business and I know Womack has been full of himself on ocassion but…
Old plan: corner the market on second basemen: scrapped.
New plan: corner the market on guys named Ross.
Both the Cubs and Rangers are looking for 2nd base help. The Cubs are down on Jerome Williams (not for Womack straightup, but it opens the door.)
Maybe the Reds are trying to corner the market on PTBNL.
But don’t the Cubs have Hairston playing 2B plus Todd Walker (who is currently playing 1B in place of Lee).
Dusty Baker prefers to use Hairston vs lefties only and Walker moved to first for 2 months with Lee on the DL.
I know it’s not likely, I’m just pointing out some teams I’d be calling. Since it’s a sunk cost anyways, I’d send the $1 million with Womack to pay his salary if anyone was even remotely interested.
So how did Milton’s surgery go today? Did Kremchek perform it? Did he use spare parts from Junior’s past operations?
A lot of people assume that if another of the starting OFers is traded that it will be Kearns. What if it’s Dunn that is being shopped?
With Griffey out I can’t imagine Krivsky would trade Dunn. That would mean the middle of our lineup would be gone for the forseeable future. I think K’s got enough sense to know how much trading Dunn right now would upset fans.
the cards and the mets have also been mentioned being interesed in womack.
i haven’t heard anything recently about either outfielder being moved. i’d expect any deal like that to happen later rather than sooner, when teams are deciding whether they are in our out for the season at the deadline.
If the reds are competing, maybe they’ll get in on a deal for a solid vet starter to help make a playoff run this year. If they’re out, they’d probably deal for pitching prospects.
Dunn isn’t going anywhere. They just signed him to a large contract to be the franchise player. I seriously doubt Kearns is going anywhere, either. Krivsky seems to recognize Kearns’ value, and would only trade him for a front-line pitcher. Nobody’s going to be trading front-line pitchers at this point in the season.
I just don’t see the logic in keeping McCraken and parting with Kearns. McCraken is a career backup and any pitching available at this point would be pretty thin.
McCracken has a track record of swinging a good bat off the bench plus plays pretty good defense. He’s a role player that management thinks the team needs to continue to win.
Jim, Can you link to this track record?
The splits I saw at espn.com show that for the last 3 years, he’s got a 622 OPS as a PH (.254/.310/.312).
Now that they’ve traded Pena, trading Kearns makes absolutely no sense. You take what was a team strength and turn it into a team weakness.
For what it’s worth, both Howard and Himes are off to slow starts with the Yankees, at the same levels, AA and A+ respectively, they ended last season:
Name G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO OBP SLG AVG
Kevin Howard 16 62 6 14 2 0 2 6 3 15 .273 .355 .226
Ben Himes 13 45 7 11 2 1 3 4 2 15 .292 .533 .244
Later,
Tom
In a way, I’m sorry to see Womack go. He had a good spring and it was obvious that he was making every attempt to get his career back on track. However, this just was never a good fit from the begining. His signing didn’t make much sense. Someone said it earlier, but the only way this signing made any sense was if it was a wake up call to Freel. Kind of a get your act together or we’ll give the job to Womack thing. Be as that may, it wasn’t fair to Womack. Good luck to him. (just not against the Reds)