Can we trade them Candy Maldonado again?

When was Nomar's last turn at firstbase though? I swear, that double-switch today just didn't sit right. I wonder if Nomar is no longer a "first baseman".

If it were MIKE Sweeney, you'd be in business.

It's too bad he doesn't embrace more of a utility-type role, because that's the only way we could get any benefit from having him on the team next year.

Just saw Jason Werth playing some credable RF for the Phillies. Good luck guy.

July 6th was his last start at first.

Houlton and Young can be optioned back to Vegas, I guess they could ask Hernandez if he would to Vegas until September 1st but I don't know if he has to go.

I am going to say choice 1, Houlton.

According to Dodgers GM Ned Colletti, the new letters will immediately take on a role in bench player, um, Mike Sweeney's first name.

Lyle Lanley: Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine,
Bona fide,
Electrified,
Six-car
Monorail!
What'd I say?
Ned Flanders: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
Patty+Selma: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: That's right! Monorail!
Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud...
Lyle Lanley: It glides as softly as a cloud.
Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend?
Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs?
Lyle Lanley: You'll be given cushy jobs.
Abe: Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level.
Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can.
Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man.
I swear it's Springfield's only choice...
Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: Once again...
All: Monorail!
Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...
Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!
All: Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
Monoraaaaaail!
Homer: Mono... D'oh!

2007 Anderson - Sweeney
Age: 33 - 37
Avg: .237 - .247

Well, that or 29

1. The teams can work out a trade within (48 or 70, I forgot which) hours. If they do not, the player is pulled off waivers.

2. The team can pull the player off waivers, making him unavailable, if they do, he can not be placed on waivers again until the end of the season.

3. The team can straight up give the player and the remander of his contract to the claiming team.

If a player passes through waivers with no claims, he can then be traded with no restrictions until August 31st.

eh.

I think just for fun the Dodgers should also activate Manny Mota so he and Sweeney could have a little PH competition. Oh, and I suppose Lenny Harris, too. Hey, if Julio Franco can still be on someone's roster, why not?

62 Or to the Rangers.

Remember last year when Elbert got called up to Jacksonville, he also started giving up home runs like they were going out of style.

isotope
crusty/krusty
...?

I also feel really strongly about monorails and there being shrugged off in LA and OC.

Not that this was much of a trade, but for those who have posted here that trades between the Giants and the Dodgers would never happen, enjoy the crow.

Don't oversell it Ned - he's a 37-year old bench guy that can occasionally play 1B or corner OF. As long as the PTBNL is a minor-league non-prospect....

http://tinyurl.com/2b4xg5

Or a starting centerfielder....

In this case, trading for APTBNL from the worst team in the division by the next-worst (Dodgers) means no restrictions on either side.

Sweeney's name was put on waivers and each team had a chance to put in a claim.
Nobody claimed him, all 29 teams passed on him.

So now he could be traded.

1) All teams in the same league as the player's current team, in order from worst record to best.
2) All teams in the other league, in order from worst record to best.

I was merely mentioning our division rivals because they are the teams most likely to want to block a player we are trying to acquire, and they didn't get the chance to do so.

The way regfairfield describes it in 44 is the way I have always understood it to work. I didn't think a player had to pass through all 29 teams in order to be traded -- just far enough down the list for the team he's being traded to to claim him.

Ps I was at the game with TC when the trade (DFA?) went thrue so I don't know the details.

See also: Betemit, Wilson

He pronounces it like Walt Weiss-man.

At least that's how I understand it.

The Anderson DFA and the Sweeney trade have to be evaluated on their merits AT THE TIME. And at the time Anderson was DFAed, there was really no other choice. We were desperate for more offense in the everyday lineup, and the only way to get it was to call up two guys from AAA. Which worked out quite nicely, I might add.