It appears it's back on. The Cubs are about to trade Matt Garza to the Rangers for Mike Olt and others once again. I'm surprised by this since I figured Olt was the reason the trade broke down in the first place.
Sources: Garza will not pitch tonight for #Cubs, deal with #Rangers near.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 22, 2013
Hearing that the #Cubs and #Rangers trade talks involving Garza are back on.
— Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) July 22, 2013
Official from another team in Garza sweepstakes said the #rangers are making another big push for him. #cubs
— Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) July 22, 2013
More info later if the trade is completed.
Source: #Cubs will acquire Triple A IF Mike Olt, Single A RHP C.J. Edwards and a third player from #Rangers for Garza.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 22, 2013
Jeff Wilson of the Fort Worth Star Telegram reports on Twitter that Joe Ortiz could be included in the trade.
Jeff Passan tweets that the final deal is Mike Olt, CJ Edwards, Justin Grimm and a PTBNL for Matt Garza. Me happy.
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Ryno wrote:
Don’t tell me what to do.
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Player #3 is a pitcher, it sounds like
BerseliusQuote Reply
I like.
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@ shawndgoldman:
Me too. Very good trade for the Cubs. I won’t be able to go in depth on this until tomorrow morning, which makes me sad. If anyone wants to beat me to it, feel free.
dmick89Quote Reply
i’m not sure if kap is just freelancing here, but…
GWQuote Reply
I’m really surprised the Rangers did this. This seems like a very poor trade on their part. I welcome it, but doesn’t make sense to me if I’m a Rangers fan.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
Behold the power of scarcity in the marketplace. Seems like it’s a good time to be a seller.
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@ GW:
I would assume so. The Cubs aren’t going to move Bryant to RF because of this. Like they’ve done with Baez, he’ll remain at the most valuable position until he shows he can’t play it. I don’t see this front office making any other decision with regards to their prospects.
What intrigues me is that the Cubs have Castro at SS, Baez potentially on his way and Olt. I had assumed Baez would move to 3rd, but now I wonder more about the supposed Cubs confidence in his ability to stay there. Maybe Castro gets moved to CF.
dmick89Quote Reply
Is Olt now the 5th best Cubs prospect? That’s crazy.
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@ dmick89:
Isn’t 2nd base ahead of CF on the spectrum? An infield of Bryant/Castro/Baez/Rizzo wouldn’t be a bad thing.
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Dmick is happy? There is a disturbance in the Force.
But seriously, this is a badass trade.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
I’m not worried about all the “blocked by another prospect” stuff. The only guys that are blocking anyone right now are Castro and Rizzo, and that’s only because of their long-term deals. Anyone else could fail between now and the majors.
Plus, most of these guys are relatively high on the defensive spectrum. For example, Lake was supposedly blocked by Castro/Valbuena/Barney… and he gets to the majors and is now playing CF.
They have lots of talented hitters playing premium defensive positions. This is a good thing. They’ll figure out positions when each guy has individually demonstrated enough success to be promoted to the big league club.
shawndgoldmanQuote Reply
Re: this trade (UPDATE: and the Ryan Braun news)
BerseliusQuote Reply
So…Ryan Braun…
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Braun —–> not appealing the suspension
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*cracks open another beer*
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new shit: http://obstructedview.net/news-and-rumors/mini-profile-for-mike-olt.html
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
why a picture, when we can’t hit the ball. Should have traded our power hitter Andrus straight up for him, and got a hitter, stanton, rios, tavaris to beef up this line up since Cruz will probably be gone like braum is.
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I tend not to write many responses, however i did some searching and wound up
here Cubs trade Matt Garza to Rangers for Mike Olt, CJ Edwards, Justin Grimm and PTBNL ***UPDATED*** | Obstructed View.
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