The Jake Peavy to the Cubs rumors will not die, and today they took a turn for the interesting.
A source within the Padres organization claims that it’s “basically a done deal” (whatever basically means) that Peavy is headed to Chicago, and that the Cubs will send back Felix Pie, Sean Marshall and Ryan Theriot.
Is this one of those “I know a guy, who knows a guy” deals? Yes, that’s exactly what it is. So I have no idea if it’s true. All I can say is that the “source” is a guy who actually should know.
If he’s too be believed, sometime last night the Cubs and Padres agreed on the players already mentioned, and any haggling left would involve any minor leaguers who might be included in the deal on both sides.
This would directly contradict what Buster Olney wrote today on ESPN.com, in which he thinks the Braves and Padres have basically agreed to trade Yunel Escobar, Gorkys Hernandez and a pitcher for Peavy.
Of the five named players in the trade rumors (Pie, Marshall, Theriot, Escobar and Hernandez) Escobar’s clearly the best player. But Gorkys isn’t that great, and it’s no safe bet that either Jo-Jo Reyes or Charlie Morton would ever be any better than Sean Marshall.
I guess the Cubs’ rumor makes sense if Theriot is going to play second base for the Padres, since Cubs fans have seen that he clearly can’t handle shortstop defensively.
You know, if Felix Pie had just actually been good, this trade would have been a lot easier to make, wouldn’t it?
Well, we’ll see who’s right. Little Buster Olney or a guy who actually draws a paycheck from the Padres. Let’s hope it’s the Padre.
November 11th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Please be true, please be true, please be true…
November 11th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Andy, is the “source” me, talking to Ron Santo, talking to Pat Hughes, volleying it to Bob Brenly, who told Len Kasper?
November 11th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Am I now the starting shortstop?
November 11th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
You should go over and check out bologna sandwich’s post today. The guy is still drinking the Kevin Millar kool aid and coming up with even more ridiculous moves. I beg you, please ridicule his post for my entertainment.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Doesn’t Andy also have connections with Matt Vagersian? That’s my bet on Andy’s source.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Throw in Brenly. I have already made the disconnect when I thought that he was going to Milwaukee.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Erich B.,
yeah Yellon was spouting some grade A outrageous nonsense. “Would I mind taking a chance on Kyle Farnsworth again?” Yes, Al, as a mater of fact, I would mind that a great deal.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
umm… this is crazy, yet intriguing. I wish we knew the source.
BTW, Buster Olney doesn’t know crap, so its pretty easy to contradict what he says. He still believes that the A’s won’t trade harden to the cubs.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I’m your next shortstop.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
The source of this rumor reports to Kevin Towers directly. Nope, not Masur or Vasgersian.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
hey andy… people are criticizing your grammar… to make them shut up can you change the “if he’s too be believed” change the too into a “to”
Tired of hearing them bitch.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
When do you expect I’ll be officially confirmed?
November 11th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Your full of me.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
We suck peavy or no peavy
November 11th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
We just got Peavy dipshits!
November 11th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Please tell me this isn’t true.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I like the extra o. I’m keeping it.
Shit, I don’t know if this is going to happen. I’m just passing it along. The source has worked for the Padres for years and said that when the meeting he was in last night ended everybody left the meeting with the idea that it was going to be Felix, Theriot and Marshall for Peavy.
Where it goes from there we’ll just have to see.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
12-16 can go back to Northsidebaseball and play in that cat turd filled catbox.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I don’t think it is… cant find it anywhere
November 11th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
I just reported that the Padres have traded Tim Stoddard to the Yankees for Ed Whitson!
November 11th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Losing Yunel would hurt more than Peavy would help. Good luck 2 you. Prior … Woods … Peavy? Please be true.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Yunel Escobar alone is better then the garbage you are sending over, Theriot? please 1 HR 38 RBI…Sean Marshall? Felix Pie? these are your rejects, and the Pads know this!
November 11th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
My knee is healing just fine, thank you very much.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Yet Yunels OPS is like .20 points better than Theriots, with all of that included.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Not even I am that dumb.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
This is Brian Roberts all over again.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I just wanna know the source. It’s eating away at my soul. Well, that and the years of vanity and excess.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Don’t trade Richy Hill!! Where’s the movie thread?
November 11th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I just fired him….he won’t be source again.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Oh please, I don’t believe this for a second. Unless Towers has such a huge mancrush on Jim Hendry that he feels the need to bend over for him and take their scrap for the Padres’ ace, this trade is not happening. The Braves’ package is clearly superior. The only way the Cubs get Peavy is if they pull in a third team in the trade talks.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I feel like a lot of people are missing the notion that the three listed are not the complete package, simply the base package. Still means that Ceda, Hart, or others could still be dealt in this deal.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
While I do love Jimmy’s lovehandles…this rumor is false.
I’m just using the media and the Cubs to get the right pitcher from the Braves.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Wow! I knew Towers was flexibile, but i’ve never made anyone bend over this far before!
November 11th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Wow! I knew Towers was flexibile, but i’ve never made anyone bend over this far before!
November 11th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Wow. Those padres fans sure know how to start a party.
November 11th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
In other news the Braves signed Julio Franco out of retirement and traded him to the Mariners for Felix Hernandez. What is funny is that has a better chance of happening than the deal mentioned here.
November 11th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
We are going too!
November 11th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
what a joke-actually that doesnt have a better chance of happening as that is impossible. You cannot sign and trade. So technically, some chance > no chance.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
November 11th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
We’re in a separate deal, headed to the Mexican League in exchange for Jock Jones.
November 11th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I love that Jock is in the Mexican League. I hope his mom has good seats.
November 11th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
This is garbage. You’re garbage
November 11th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Thanks mom.
November 11th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I wish I was Andy’s source instead of Chuck’s.
November 11th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Good to see the maturity level of padres/braves fans increases when they are faced with hearing things they don’t like. Stay classy, San Diego.
November 11th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Yeah, i’d be an angry immature person if I were a padres or braves fan after the banner year both of those teams had in 2008
November 11th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Pat, San Diego is in the National League West. The Braves are in the National League East, although they too, were once in the National League West. The Cubs are in the National League Central, although, they were once a member of the National League East.
November 11th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
You’re right, Cubs’ 2008 was pretty spectacular.
November 11th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
in fact I can’t even hear them way down there in sub 500 land.
November 11th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Hey Ya’ll who wants to rub stomach’s together?
November 11th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Oh, oh i do,i do!
November 11th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
HAHAHA,
You don’t even get me SD!
November 11th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Me either! Though I am a little pissed I will be playing for Mazatlan next year….
November 11th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
OK Andy I completed my end of the deal, by making you the ONLY “reporter” in the world with this info. After completion of the trade I expect payment in full.
November 11th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
A lot of these comments are stripped from the inner bowels of one big gigantic bullshitass. Mostly NSBB’ers and other assorted riff-raff.
November 11th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I can fully verify this rumor. Watch our podcast coming tonight.
November 11th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I don’t want to imagine how many balls will be thrown at soriano’s head during cubs/braves games next season if we beat out atlanta for this trade :/
November 11th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Alfonso Soriano wears number 12. He also was hit by a pitch by the Braves’ Tim Hudson in 2007, prior to breaking his hand in 2008.
November 11th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I am the excellence of execution.
I’m the best there is. The best there was. And the best there ever will be.
November 11th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
My hammy will be pulled whenever we face Atlanta.
November 11th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
You’re not really Len Kasper.
November 11th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
You’re not really a Padres fan.
November 11th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I’m really not Soriano.
November 11th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I better be starting on Opening Day, otherwise I am going to be pissed.
November 11th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
My sources tell me Willie Hernandez for Bill Johnson and Dick Ruthven.
November 11th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Well I AM really Kevin Towers and I can tell you this rumor is not true.
Peavy will be a Brave within a week..err..10 days.
Most likely before Christmas.
Almost guaranteed by Spring Training.
But he’s going to the Braves or staying with us.
I wish I could get the Brewers into the mix. Lots of young talent in that organization.
Time to go make some more phone calls.
November 11th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I am really not shit.
November 11th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
It’s true. I just got a call from my agent. San Diego here I come!
November 11th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I can verify that this, rumor is, indeed false. I’m not at liberty, to say such things — and even if I were, at liberty, to say such, things — I probably wouldn’t, since it warms the cockles of my Colgate-educated heart to dangle, the information, above you. That’s my opinion, and if you, don’t like it, well, I have others,.
You, aren’t getting Peavy. You’re getting Kevin, Millar and you will like, it.
Good DAY, sir!
November 11th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
What an absurd bunch of absurdity. I demand that these words be re-written in a non absurd way. This is patheticly absurd.
November 11th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Hey Al, what about Aubrey Huff?
November 11th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
The Padres have less control over what happens with Peavy than people think. Peavy holds the hanner in any trade due to his no trade clause. He doesn’t want to go to a rebuilding Braves team and if the Braves trade Escobar, that’s what they’ll be. If the Braves don’t trade Escobar, their deal won’t have any more value than the Cubs package. Peavy wants to go to a contender and if the Padres don’t trade him to one, he’ll make them eat his contract, pure and simple.
November 11th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
If NSBB didn’t report it, it is not true.
November 11th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I’m posting this from Hooter’s, where I’m sitting in the back of the restaurant with a laptop and a boner.
November 11th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I forgot to add my spawn is here with me-at Hooter’s.
November 11th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Looks like my sorry ass is gonna be an Ace now… Hope I dont get beat up.
November 11th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
How’s the visibility?
November 11th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
These pretzels are making me thirsty!
November 11th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Sorry looks like your source isn’t legit , not one media outlet is reporting this hours after your post all this after agreeing on the players last night? crap attempt to draw traffic
November 11th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
isn’t legit, #78. crap attempt to draw a conclusion.
November 12th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Vagina muscle.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:45 am
**** ME! ANDY IS A PRICK!
November 12th, 2008 at 10:46 am
WHERES THE SHITHEAD WHO WROTE THIS STORY. COME OUT AND PLAY AND DEFEND YOUR SORRY ASS YOU PIECE OF SHIT!
November 12th, 2008 at 10:47 am
**** the cubs!
November 12th, 2008 at 11:49 am
buster olney is worthless, it’s pathetic that only because he works for ESPN people listen to the garbage that he makes up
November 12th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Andy,
Please remove all thre previous posts using my name. I do not speak in such ways. I am a humble man that enjoys bologna and keeping a scorecard, please keep me out of your childish ways.
Thanks,
Al.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Leave Al alone!
November 12th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I’m holding up the trade. I’m sitting in my bedroom holding my breath until the Cubs call it off.
I don’t want to go to Santa Yago!
November 12th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Brickhouse sucked.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I’m a douchebag.
November 12th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I’m from India! I like UCLA! And cock!
November 12th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
i wrote this story cuz its true…i dont want to go to an outdated braves team. And braves fans tommie hansen couldnt hold my jock. neither can any of ur other overrated “prospects” if thats what u call them. id rather have a curse in my face than go to that 1990’s franchise