Tigers trade RHP Lester Oliveros to Twins as player to be named later to complete Monday's trade in...

Tigers trade RHP Lester Oliveros to Twins as player to be named later to complete Monday's trade in which OF Delmon Young was acquired.

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Now I can officially say...

I approve of the trade completely.

Way to be, DD.

"i think it will be mostly feast the rest of the year,"

by Honeyman on Aug 16, 2011 2:21 PM EDT reply actions

???

Not sure if srs…

by NickLAwyer on Aug 16, 2011 2:22 PM EDT reply actions

Mild relief

I like the trade on it’s own merits. DY could get white hot and tear up the league. What the manager does with his new personnel is another matter. We have a surplus in the outfield.

Please sign Brando Phillips in the winter.

I don't care what the Chinese say, 2011 is the Year of the Tiger!

by Tigerdog1 on Aug 16, 2011 2:26 PM EDT reply actions

man its' weird having a DY again isn't it?

Bless You Boys.com

by Kurt Mensching on Aug 16, 2011 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions

We could call him "DY's kid brother'"

or not.

I don't care what the Chinese say, 2011 is the Year of the Tiger!

by Tigerdog1 on Aug 16, 2011 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions

and andrew mccutchen

i’d be ok if it meant dealing jackson to the bucs

by longview on Aug 16, 2011 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions

p.s.

i have no idea if mccutchen is FA, or if the bucs would trade him, or anything really. i just love the way AM plays the game.

by longview on Aug 16, 2011 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Answer

He’s not, and they wouldn’t, for 5 Jacksons.

by The Nicker on Aug 16, 2011 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions

this is correct.

everything else is untrue.

by freywagg on Aug 16, 2011 6:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Is Phillips a FA after this season?

I want.

by CoreyMichaelDC on Aug 16, 2011 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Yes

I don't care what the Chinese say, 2011 is the Year of the Tiger!

by Tigerdog1 on Aug 16, 2011 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions

The club option is for 12 mil

it’s not a lock that they pick it up.

I don't care what the Chinese say, 2011 is the Year of the Tiger!

by Tigerdog1 on Aug 16, 2011 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions

you have to hope

the Reds go brain dead and decline his option first

by rif23 on Aug 16, 2011 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions

I'd love it

but don’t think they will

No longer the Founder, President and CEO of the Ryan Raburn Fan Club

by tigers22 on Aug 16, 2011 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Phillips would work, but I’d be willing to give Aaron Hill a shot, he’d be significantly cheaper, and has a lot of potential upside

by ccaruss on Aug 16, 2011 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions

can't argue with this

need to get younger and hopefully better. Go for Phillips with Hill as the backup plan.

Wait til October...

by NoVaVolt on Aug 16, 2011 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm very okay with this

enjoy your middle relievers Minny

No longer the Founder, President and CEO of the Ryan Raburn Fan Club

by tigers22 on Aug 16, 2011 2:38 PM EDT reply actions

what a deal for DD.

lets just hope he hits and doesn’t get non-tendered

by Rothben22 on Aug 16, 2011 2:46 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

"Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you."
-Jacques Plante

by DetroitSports on Aug 16, 2011 2:48 PM EDT reply actions

On this note

Our former first-round pick Trever Miller just got DFA’ed by the Blue Jays. TINSTAAPP.

by johnmoz on Aug 16, 2011 3:08 PM EDT reply actions

From what it...

…sounds like, Delmon’s as despised in Minnesota about as much as Raburn is here. Hopefully he just needs a change of scenery. Too soon to pass out grades on this one but right now, it looks like a great deal on paper. Especially for a guy who’s only 25

by NoNon on Aug 16, 2011 3:25 PM EDT reply actions

Not that it's a bad deal . . .

But his age is really only relevant if we plan to keep him next year, and considering he’d be at Arb3 and looking at around $6 million in salary, I kinda hope that’s not the case.

by The Nicker on Aug 16, 2011 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions

I think 7- 8 mil salary

I don't care what the Chinese say, 2011 is the Year of the Tiger!

by Tigerdog1 on Aug 16, 2011 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Fine by me.

by rcpratt on Aug 16, 2011 5:13 PM EDT reply actions

Not exceedlingly happy we gave up Oliveros

But, hey. We don’t lose much, just a middle relief type of guy.

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by David Tokarz on Aug 16, 2011 6:09 PM EDT reply actions

Why couldn't this have been announced yesterday?

What changed between then and now?

"i think it will be mostly feast the rest of the year,"

by Honeyman on Aug 16, 2011 6:13 PM EDT reply actions

they probably didn't know who exactly it was

May have been talking over a couple different players at the same level, decided to just go with one of those guys and decided to do the deal and then work out the specifics later on.

Random nonsense at @Baroque97

Honest, I'm completely harmless. I make up in ALL CAPS and creative threats what I lack in actual violence.

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by Baroque on Aug 16, 2011 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Right

And it seems like waiver deals need to happen quickly.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981

by momotigers on Aug 17, 2011 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions

Educated risks

DD has won some big ones (Cabrera) and lost some (Renteria), but on the whole I am a strong supporter.

I have some worry that with Casper, Furbush, Ruffin, Martinez, Oliveros, we gave up too much in the past couple of weeks.

I understand Fister and Pauley are strong young players, in the bigs, under low cost club control for years ahead. Also I am watching Castellanos at WMichigan routinely and he appears to be a huge prospect (at F Martinez position).

The Oliveros/Young trade is more on my mind because I think Young is unsigned in 2012? and Oliveros has absolutely filthy K/BB type stuff at his very young age.

Interested in what people know/think, esp about Oliveros.

Hoping it all gets us over our present 2011 hump and works out down the road!

by TigerFanForever on Aug 17, 2011 11:17 PM EDT reply actions