A Giant Dump Deal

The Giants sent 2 young pitchers, Jerome Williams and Jeremy Accardo to the Cubs for harried and expensive reliever Latroy Hawkins yesterday. This is your prototype dump deal, with the Giants acquiring a short term value for future prospects.

In BABI, dump deals are more severe for the dumpers, though presumably supply and demand can change the ratio of today value in relation to tomorrow value. The typical ratio has been two today values for one good tomorrow value or two fair tomorrow values. Right now, there is only one dumper (Falkuhns), delayed temporarily owing to personal time required by Larry’s mother’s death. The word is no one else is ready to throw in the towel.

Do you think the Giants think Hawkins is ready to bust out as the intimidated set up guy that he was in the AL? Or have they just given up on Jerome? And it sure seemed they were high on Accardo a couple of weeks ago despite his not being quite ready for prime time. It was certainly a desperation move of a team that is playing for this year. I suspect that they felt they had the depth of pitching prospects in the minor leagues to afford to give these 2 guys up. This deal suggests we may see Matt Cain in the bigs this season.

To make room on the roster, they waived Matt Herges, who I saw Friday night in his last appearance as a Giant. The only thing Giant about his outing was the big 4 the Padres put up in the 5th inning against him, busting the game open. The just crushed the ball, even the guys who made outs. The guy has just stunk the past 2 years. Last year he gave up 90 hits in 65-1/3 innings. That’s .459. I heard Bruce Magowan say on KNBR that it was a sad day for Giants fans. Are you kidding me? Sad compared to seeing Felix go? Or Ledee? Get real, Big Bruce.

Jason Schmidt just struggled through the first, loading the bases, and then allowing an unearned run when Durham bobbled a grounder. Believe me, the Giants aren’t going anywhere unless this guy gets back to last season’s lights out level.

Meanwhile in BABI we have a new leader, the Lickers, who moved in front of us by a half point yesterday. And the Old Rips moved into 6th with 56.5 points, passing the Pounders and Any 9 this week. Lou and Mark are the leaders in the clubhouse in the race for BABI GM of the year. That deal between these two teams seems to be helping both teams, which suggests great foresight by both owners.

I see Barry’s Bats are running out of upside in hitting points, as they currently have 46 points. Derek Lee has been off the charts, challenging for a triple crown, and garnering stolen base number 9 today. Barry got some bad news about Prior yesterday, but he might have 2 closers for now with Wagner and Fuentes, and there’s a pretty good chance Gonzalez will be the man soon enough in Pittsburgh. Glavine pitched a good one today, but the Mets’ bullpen, worse than the Giants, gave up 5 to the Marlins in the 7th to blow it for him. Barry’s going to have to give up some of that hitting for pitching. There is a rumor that he’s sent out a Cartel-like email, offering “bargain” players for pitching. We didn’t get that email, so we can’t confirm it, but it was a subject of some derision at the poker game this week.

And this just in…the Dodgers have scored 3 in the first. Jayson Werth doubled one in, JD Drew walked and scored and Milton Bradley singled in another. Werth batting 2nd, Drew 3rd and Bradley 5th as originally advertised in spring training. It looks like a good capper game for the Pecklers today.