Report: Armando Galarraga traded to Diamondbacks

It was an up and down stay here in Detroit, but for one night you were perfect in the eyes of every Tigers fan

“The teams are likely to complete a trade today, according to MLB.com’s Steve Gilbert. Eichhorn and another player would got to Detroit and the D’Backs would take on most of Galarraga’s $2.3MM salary.”

A source told The Republic that a deal isn’t expected to occur until sometime this week, which is when Dombrowski said he expected a deal to be finalized. The Diamondbacks also appear to be in a position to pay Galarraga’s entire salary.

DD may as well wait and see what’s the best bid he can get, unless there is only one potential suitor and he doesn’t want to lose them.

With just getting Eichhorn, add in another player and we are getting a very nice deal for Mando, even if the other player is just an organizational body.

22 yrs old, lefty pitcher. A 16th round pick in the 2009 draft. Posted a 5.17 ERA and 1.57 WHIP at the Hi A level last year. I’m sure someone will dig up a scouting report on him.

Armando would have been hanging around, literally waiting for an accident to happen, figuratively breathing down Phil Coke’s neck as he tried to make the transition to the rotation. I don’t like trading away starting pitching for basically nothing, but I’d bet a benjamin against a donut that they just didn’t feel that Armando would take well to a relief role, and he didn’t fit into their long term plans with all the young guns that have plenty of upside on the way up.

As for his market value, DD had several days to field calls, and quite a while prior to the announcement that Galarraga would be DFA’ed. I’d have kept him for depth, but then I don’t have to deal with the personalities in Lakeland- the competition that may not be as healthy as we’d all like to think it would be. As much as I don’t like the deal, it’s not likely to kill us. I do think that Armando is a good bit better than whomever they have right now to fill a rotation spot should the need arise. We now have to hope that someone (that’s you, Andy Oliver) develops quickly, before there is a need in the rotation. That’s my .02

can put up the same production as Galaraga with a lot better upside

Who do the Twins and Sox have as their 6th starter that is so far superior?

and if Peavy is not healthy or they trade Edwin, he WILL be in the rotation. If they have six healthy starters on opening day, he’ll go to the pen because he’s too good to leave in the minors. Kenny Williams has said that he just wants to commit to him one way or the other by opening day, rather than start him in the pen and move him over if needed. They’ve even talked about him closing, which is surprising since they have Matt Thornton there. But Sale is definitely a starter if they need him.

The Twinkies are going to camp with six starters also, and they’ll see who gets beaten out of a job. Perkins stock dropped big time last year, and Manship can’t seem to crack the rotation, but they still have six others.

Oliver needs to command all his pitches with much more consistency, and do it for a period of time before I’d call him up. However, he is now definitely No. six on the Tigers, ready or not. I believe they would call him up unless he’s stinking it up in Toledo should the need arise, and I don’t like the call up for the wrong reasons. It should be all about him and not about desperation. I hasten to add that when he does command his full repertoire, I’d put him ahead of Bondo, AG, Penny, Coke, and knocking on Porcello’s door (depending on what Ricky does). Since Andy hasn’t settled in with his command for the required (in my book) period of time, he’s clearly not ready. He could be ready very quickly, or never. There’s a graveyard- gotta be somewhere around Monroe or Flat Rock, full of pitchers that got lost between Toledo and Detroit. Rumor has it they’re buried on Zug Island, but that’s not confirmed.