Michael Bowden AND Jed Lowrie?!
Posted on July 25, 2008
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I understand that the cost of relievers over the past few years has skyrocketed, but this asking price is a tad bit ridiculous…
The Boston Globe reported last night that the Red Sox were in the mix for former National’s reliever Jon Rauch. Rauch has a 2.98 ERA and was dealt to the Diamondbacks for Arizona’s #6 prospect, Emilio Bonifacio. Here is where the story gets interesting, Washington asked for Jed Lowrie AND Michael Bowden from the Red Sox.
Last year cost the Red Sox big-time (Kason Gabbard and David Murphy) to acquire Eric Gagne. Gagne was only a rental and his contract expired 2+ months after the trade took place yet the Texas Rangers now own 2 ex-Boston prospects for a few more years.
This year the Rockies have asked for Clay Buchholz in a potential trade for Brian Fuentes (link). Fuentes would have been a rental as well and Theo Epstein seems to have decided that the asking price is way too high.
If Buchholz for Fuentes was too high, how in the world did Washington think that Lowrie and Bowden for Rauch would be doable? Insanity.
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I don’t get why they would ask for Bowden and Lowrie from the Sox, then turn around and accept a middling prospect in Bonifacio.
Rauch has huge value too, because he’s still under team control for 2 years at cheap cost. Ugh, I can’t believe the Diamondbacks got him for that. It would be like the Dodgers trading away Tony Abreu for Jon Rauch.
Yeah exactly. They asked for the world from the Red Sox but took next to nothing from the D-Backs. I don’t get that at all.