Reyes Traded

by kindred on Jul 26, 2008 3:27 PM EDT

our long national nightmare is over.

traded to the Indians for AA RP Luis Perdomo, a power arm with a plus-plus fastball, a decent slider, and a work-in-progress changeup. he regularly hits 95-96 apparently. he's 24, which might be a little high for AA, but he's doing well there.

all in all, we traded a pitcher with no value and no future here for a decent power arm. it's not amazingly great, but i think it's pretty good for us. add Perdomo to Perez and Motte. in a few years, we might have a lights-out 7-8-9 combo.

doesn't do anything for this year, tho.

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thank godness!

good luck reyes! glad we got someone who might project well!

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by mstreeter06 on Jul 26, 2008 3:33 PM EDT 0 recs

oops. thank goodness* :)

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by mstreeter06 on Jul 26, 2008 3:33 PM EDT 0 recs

WHAT?!

I thought we were supposed to get Matt Holliday and Dan Uggla straight up?

by KeepOnRolen on Jul 26, 2008 3:37 PM EDT 0 recs

+1 lol…

by 85CardsforLife on Jul 26, 2008 4:32 PM EDT up 0 recs

I can't believe they actually traded him

I feel like we could have gotten a little more for him, but maybe not. Best of luck moving forward, Anthony.

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by Mr Redbird on Jul 26, 2008 3:37 PM EDT 0 recs

Agreed

Perdomo looks pretty good, but I feel like we could’ve done a tad bit better (either younger or MLB ready). Regardless, I’m happy that we traded him for both his sake and ours. Good luck to him!

On with the (good) youth movement!

by aet15 on Jul 26, 2008 3:46 PM EDT up 0 recs

and I actually like Cleveland

so I won’t feel bad following Anthony there and hoping he does well.

* sarcasm might be involved in this comment

by mattyfrommo on Jul 26, 2008 4:15 PM EDT up 0 recs

Yeah

all I would have liked as a throw in wa for the rule 5 restrictions on Barton to be lifted.

They say that it's never too late, but you don't get any younger...

by Valatan on Jul 26, 2008 5:48 PM EDT up 0 recs

Agreed

I’d take that over cash.

On with the (good) youth movement!

by aet15 on Jul 27, 2008 12:04 PM EDT up 0 recs

Perdomo..

Actually looks like an exciting pitcher.
Granted he’s a little bit older, but between Hi-A and AA this year, he has 60 K in 54 IP, a 1.66 ERA, .168 AVG against and only 1 HR given up.

Sweet!

by KeepOnRolen on Jul 26, 2008 3:39 PM EDT 0 recs

believe he is younger than

reyes.

I can't believe i gave up a homerun to that punch and judy hitter-major league 2

by punchinjudy on Jul 26, 2008 7:43 PM EDT up 0 recs

it's a shame...

...we never were able to tap into reyes’ potential. what could have been…. i hope he rips it up in the AL. and here’s hoping perdomo’s #’s translates into success in stl in a year or 2.

Why don't we get glausy eyed and put back some franklin's....

by punksoulbrutha on Jul 26, 2008 3:42 PM EDT 0 recs

ooo

according to the website, we’re also getting cash. I wonder if it’s anything significant.

On with the (good) youth movement!

by aet15 on Jul 26, 2008 3:53 PM EDT 0 recs

i noticed that as well

Im just surprised it could be anything significant…neither one of them are making anything?

by 85CardsforLife on Jul 26, 2008 4:34 PM EDT up 0 recs

Best of luck Anthony

by jjray on Jul 26, 2008 4:20 PM EDT 0 recs

Win-Win

It looks like we got some real value here, and we did right by poor Mr. Reyes and shipped him to a well-run organization in the other league. I think (read: really really hope) he will turn into something good, but it wasn’t going to happen with us. If anything, we/I can feel less guilty about the whole saga. Thanks for game one Ant’ny, and good luck in Cleveland.

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by ICEYhawtSTUNNAZ on Jul 26, 2008 9:03 PM EDT 0 recs

Keep wondering what the haul would have been if team had traded Reyes after the WS?

Funny fans (me included) moaned when Weaver did not re-up. Look at the fates of the WS staff now. Banished, DL and scattered . . .

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by akaitori on Jul 27, 2008 2:22 AM EDT 0 recs

first off, thank heaven

This is just one of those things (like Rolen) where I dont care which way it went im just glad its settled.

That said couldnt we have gotten at least something better for Reyes?
I dunno, maybe this guy is a prospect, but I was under the impression he was just a guy to play on the farm teams.

All the best to Anthony, I hope he somedays lives up to the hype.

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by jealousblues on Jul 27, 2008 3:48 AM EDT 0 recs

reading the thread

perhaps ive misjudged the pitcher weve got in return.

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by jealousblues on Jul 27, 2008 3:52 AM EDT 0 recs

Perdomo appears to have some K quality stuff...

Never was more bandwidth given to a prospect pitcher than A Reyes. Jillsinmo can tune in some Indians games in the future and follow his post-trade progression, I probably will. I hope he tears it up, the Tribe are good midwest AL neighbors.

by cardschinmusic on Jul 27, 2008 8:53 AM EDT 0 recs

So far so good

Perdomo pitched a scoreless inning for Springfield today, no hits or walks, one strikeout.

by mattlo on Jul 27, 2008 10:32 PM EDT 0 recs

Well, good luck Anthony

thanks for giving us that one-hitter against the White Sox that proved to me just how baseball can be a bitch ;)

Hope this Perdomo guy flourishes in St. Louis

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by Paulspike on Jul 28, 2008 12:25 AM EDT 0 recs

Yeah, welll. The best part of that one was

the way he responded to the one hit-not at all. Completed the game like nothing ever happened. He was sent back to Memphis the next day.

I’m not really an Indians fan-but I’ll check in to see if he turns it around. I did find some comments from Shapiro, and they have apparently been scouting him for a long time, they still think his “stuff” is fine, and they want him to have a few starts in AAA and then bring him up for what hopefully will be a head start for a rotation spot next year. Cleveland has had some success turning around their own struggling starting pitchers, and it will be interesting to see if they can turn around someone else’s. So yeah, I’ll watch.

They still treated “no one” Reyes like crap-and I hope they never let that happen again to a player.
It’s okay to trade a player that isn’t going to work out for you-and do it before they get tarnished….....

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by jillsinmo on Jul 28, 2008 7:28 AM EDT up 0 recs