More baseball news. Why? Because we prefer not to think about football until it’s force a bet on Tennessee time just for the sake of gambling Monday Night Football kicks off. Anywho, the Angels traded Orlando Cabrera for Jon Garland today. There was also some money exchanged, but since cash in baseball has a lower value than the peso, who cares? The real thing is – why?
The Angels don’t need pitching, with John Lackey, Kelvin Escobar, Ervin Santana, Joe Saunders and Jered Weaver forming a pretty sickner nucleus of a rotation, a nice combination of established talent, potential laden gas cans and youth. They certainly need hitting. And it’s certainly arguable that Cabrera is one of the more consistent offensive threats at the position. Not explosive, consistent.
What does make sense is that the Angels have something in the works that sends a young pitcher and possibly a young slugger (Ervin “Dr. Jekyll” Santana plus K-monster Brandon Wood perhaps?) for a big name bat. The LA Times has suggested that it’s for Miguel Cabrera or Miguel Tejada, and that’s certainly likely. But what if the Angels are clearing out the SS position for another big name gentleman that technically still hasn’t signed with anyone? Who says A-Rod can’t walk away from the Yankees like he did to Boras? And why wouldn’t he want to play shortstop in a predominantly Hispanic market (other than the fact that he’s really more Americanized than most Hispanic sluggers)?
Obviously all speculation, but the intriguing thing about this move is that we know the LAAAAAA of Anaheim Angels are gearing up to make some big move – and they just got themselves the flexibility to maneuver at short and third.
