With all the other missing pieces to fill in, why, for the love of Jesus (not Colome or Flores), would Jim Bowden be interested (again) in dealing for Khalil Greene?
A snippet from an article in yesterday's San Diego Union-Tribune about the various decisions Padres GM Kevin Towers has to make this offseason:
Keep or trade shortstop Khalil Greene, who again has drawn trade interest from the Washington Nationals.
Khalil Greene?! What, is this December 2007 again***!? You mean, THE Khalil Greene, who's due to be paid $4.5 million in 2009, and broke his hand (thus, ending his complete bust of a 2008 season in July) by punching a storage cabinet after registering hit his 100th strikeout of the season (Padres are trying to get back ~$1.5 million of his 2008 paycheck)? Isn't shortstop one of the non-question marks going into 2009 (you know, given Guz's $16 million deal through 2010, with the former Attorney General backing up)?
Why, Jimbo, why?
***we're referring, of course, to the rumored Chief-or-Rauch to SD for Greene deal last December.
(AP Photo by Al Behrman)
JimBow will never trade for Khalil Greene, but only because Greene never played for the Reds organization.
Posted by: Anonymous | October 04, 2008 at 07:55 PM
Then again, Jimbo (or JimBow, whatever) seems to have moved on from his ex-Reds fetish, judging from his latest batch of deals.
Posted by: The Nationals Enquirer | October 04, 2008 at 08:53 PM
Khalil Greene, career on the road: .270 .318 .484
Sign me up.
Posted by: Chris | October 04, 2008 at 09:15 PM
Kevin Towers supposedly doesn't talk to Bowden anyhow, so I wouldn't worry about it.
Posted by: Hendo | October 04, 2008 at 09:36 PM
Maybe this is that Big Bopper they've been talking about to protect Zimmerman. Though the guy looks like he weighs 120 lbs. soaking wet. That's not very big.
Posted by: F.P. | October 04, 2008 at 09:44 PM
But Chris: Guz, career at HOME: .289 .327 .416 !!11!1!!
I guess that's why Bowden signed him up to begin with?
Bigger point is: I was just surprised to read this - even if for what it's worth it's a single throw away line in a bigger story about the Padres. But it seems to me that with much, much bigger problems than SS (at least for the next year), and with what I'm guessing is going to be somewhere around ~$15 million in payroll to add in the offseason -- and that's being optimistic, based on no facts whatsoever -- Greene (and his $4.5 million) doesn't make sense. I can't fathom why they'd be interested now.
December 2007: different story.
Posted by: The Nationals Enquirer | October 04, 2008 at 10:00 PM
F.P. -- I forgot to mention: if you intended to drop a little F.P. Santangelo humor into the mix with your initials in your comment? Mission accomplished!
Posted by: The Nationals Enquirer | October 04, 2008 at 10:05 PM