Matt Lindstrom Traded to Houston For Organizational Filler

[tjfla]

Was it my imagination or did there used to be a post about Koby Clemens and some other guy?

Ya the post read IF NO GUYS ARE MENTION because both Clemens and other guy are Rule 5 Eligible however since they announced guys it wont be them

[LocoMarlinFan]

It's official. The Marlins have traded reliever Matt Lindstrom to the Houston Astros for a pair of minor-leaguers and a player to be named later.

Houston is giving up right-hander Robert Bono and shortstop Luis Bryan.

Bono spent last season at Single A Lexington (Ky.), going 10-8 in 25 starts with a 3.20 ERA. He was Houston's 11th-round draft pick in 2007. Bryan, 19, was with Houston's Gulf Coast League team, hitting .340 in 105 at bats.

Larry Beinfest, the Marlins' president of baseball operations, said the players are "both guys with upsides.

The Marlins roster now stands at 39 players, which allows them to make a pick in Thursday's Rule 5 draft.

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

Maybe by "upsides", Beinfest means that they have heads.

[Swifty]

Clearly beef IF NO GUYS ARE MENTION

Sheesh

[Big Z]

Sounds like the same shit he said about bonifacio

[Beef]

Clearly beef IF NO GUYS ARE MENTION

Sheesh

u keep it to uself

[Ramp]

we shoulda just non-tendered him

[Swifty]

U keep it 2 URSELF

[Beef]

Ummmm, the day a GM acquires a player and then says to the media, we got this guy because the guy we traded for him sucks, this guy will never do anything for anybody, but what more can we get, is the day I suck Daft's dick

[Swifty]

we shoulda just non-tendered him

Yeah, I was thinking that.

Non-tendering him saves face. We can play the "he's garbage" game. This is just us not wanting to pay a guy $1.5 mil

[Longview]

Yea this doesn't make us a better baseball team, just a cheaper one.

[Beef]

For a team that doesn't want to spend money, I will never complain about getting rid of trash and saving money as a result. Another way of looking at it is, we save money and we don't get worse.

[Swifty]

Yeah, but sometimes there's something to be said for subtlety. I don't think anyone's saying Lindstrom deserved to bring back more, but if you're going to be so blatant about getting rid of him, just non-tender him on Saturday and don't rub the fans faces in their miserly ways. Although I guess we're well past that point.

[Beef]

Yeah, I think we are past that and I just don't think any situation in which we pawn off trash is rubbing our faces in it anyway. They have lots of ways of rubbing our faces in it, I wouldn't consider this one of them. I think if he was non-tendered, people would just complain that we are so cheap that we didn't even want anything in return because we would have to pay them thousands of dollars.

[Big Z]

I just hope we get rid of Pinto already