2011 MLB Season Game Thread: August

[DColts]

Granderson hit an inside the park home run.

[HUGG]

5yr/$85mil for Jered Weaver

[Ramp]

Ben Revere ftw

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?co...3171721871-996

[MiamiHomer]

Buster_ESPN Buster Olney
Early speculation among rival teams is that WASH is the team that placed claim on Wandy Rodriguez; they need a veteran SP for '12 rotation.

twit

[Ramp]

I dig it

[Bobbob1313]

Would've liked us to claim him.

[MiamiHomer]

Gambo620 John Gambadoro
by mlbtraderumors
The Diamondbacks have traded 2b Kelly Johnson to Toronto for 2b Aaron Hill and SS John McDonald.

That came out of no where.

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

@Ken_Rosenthal: #Nationals not claiming team on Wandy. Team still not known. Deal must be completed by 1p p.m. ET on Thursday. #MLB

/Twitter

[Big Z]

Nats not the claiming team, there's still hope Bob! Too much money for us though, doubt we would do something like that, even though that would give us more hope going into next season.

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

Not only the money but I doubt we have enough in prospects to give Houston and they would be retarded to just give him away.

[Mainge]

Not only the money but I doubt we have enough in prospects to give Houston and they would be retarded to just give him away.

They don't have any leverage if their internet is to clear salary.

[Big Z]

They don't have any leverage if their internet is to clear salary.

I think you've just been auto-corrected.

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

Yeah, they do. They don't have to trade him. They've already cleared some payroll already this year. They could hold on to him until the offseason when they could trade with anybody. This isn't like what we did with Cody last year. We let Cody go because we weren't going to pay him and didn't have plans for him with the team.

[Big Z]

It's the Rockies

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

Miscellaneous tweets on the Rockies claim on Wandy;

@Buster_ESPN: In Rockies' internal discussions, fact that no FA will in COL came up. So they claimed Wandy, hoping he could be rotation stabilizer.

@Ken_Rosenthal: Correction: #Astros down to $47.2M in 2012 even with Wandy. Could carry him easily even if payroll reduces to $60M, as sources suggest. #MLB

@Buster_ESPN: Source: no momentum right now for a Wandy trade. Houston not especially motivated to move him. Still time, though, for talks...

/Twitter