Breaking: Royals Send Rick Ankiel and Kyle Farnsworth to Atlanta, Recieve Tim Collins and Two Others

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=chavez001jes

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=blanco001gre

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=collin004tim

Just, thank you.

and would like to see Guillen and Bloomquist clear thru waivers so that Kila can come up.

Just glad to see Ankiel and Farnsworth gone

and 155 lbs? I can’t wait to see his delivery.

Jesse Chaves is not

Collins is far removed from the projectable mold of pitchers, standing at just 5-foot-7. But what he lacks in height he makes up for in stuff. His fastball tops out at 93 mph and he has a true 12-to-6 curveball that helps him rack up strikeouts. Not only had he averaged more 15 whiffs per nine innings in Double-A, but he had done so while walking fewer than four per nine. Hitters touched him up a little in 13 innings at Double-A in 2009, but he’s back in a groove in 2010. He’s never started a professional game, so don’t expect a change in roles. Collins does a good job of staying on top of the ball and driving down despite his height. If he can continue his success at higher levels, he could prove to be a useful reliever.

Ankiel, Pods and Farnsy are gone. I’m happy. Not content, but happy.

Blanco… kinda peculiar when you get 519 PA in your first year, and 114 PA in your next two years.

Blanco is basically a Venezuelan Mitch Maier, judging by his hitting numbers (Blanco doesn’t have a platoon split whatsoever though)

Chavez should be fine

Seems to make all the ugliness worth it, huh?

Didn’t he pitch well for them, but they were quickly brushed out of contention?

And I’m still very happy with this deal. Now there’s no chance that the Royals pick up their half of Ankiel’s mutual option.

Trust the process.

this trade

Can’t wait to see Tim Collins pitch

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Press conference starts. First announcement: Ned Yost signed a 2-year contract extension.

Collins came to the Braves in the Yunel Escobar/Alex Gonzalez deal.

Guess his size makes him a nonprospect/future reliever.

Did we just get ripped off by Dayton Moore? DAYTON MOORE?!

Indeed. The world has taken a turn to the surreal.

after all, he’s a center fielder who hits singles

For whatever that’s worth.

jaysonst #Redsox finished one more deal before deadline. Told it’s “small.” Players still being notified. #trades

Willie!

April 21, 2010

At Some Point, You Have To Believe
Tim Collins, LHP, Toronto Blue Jays (Double-A New Hampshire)
Monday’s stats: SV, 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K

The Blue Jays keep moving Collins up the ladder and he keeps dominating. He went undrafted out of high school, and former GM J.P. Ricciardi signed Collins out of a tryout camp; few scouts were interested in a left-hander who is listed at 5-foot-7, and that’s more than just a bit optimistic. With a lightning-quick arm that can only be described as Lincecum-esque, he somehow gets up to 90-94 mph with the frame of a 12-year-old, while adding a plus curveball and tons of deception. He’s just 20 years old, and Eastern League hitters are now 1-for-19 with 10 strikeouts against Collins. He’s going to defy everyone and get to the big leagues eventually.

June 14, 2010

Tim Collins, LHP, Blue Jays (Double-A New Hampshire)

If you are not at the very least entertained by Collins, then something is very, very wrong with you. He’s a lefty reliever who can get his fastball up to 94 mph with tons of deception, hasn’t allowed a hit in his last four appearances, whiffed five of the 10 batters he faced over the weekend, and had struck out 53 in 31 1/3 innings overall while limiting Eastern League hitters to a .190 batting average. Oh, and he’s just 20 years old. So why isn’t he talked about among some of the top relief prospects in the game? Because he’s 5-foot-7, that’s why. Actually, that’s his listed height, and most think it’s a bit kind. Still, production is production, and he’s clearly produced at every level, and I, for one, can’t wait to see him in the big leagues.

“LOL rick freaking ankiel? are u kidding me”
“Farnsworth??? I was looking that brawl thread a few minutes ago just thinking again about what a crazy guy Farnsworth was. And now he’s back?”
“Trading away Tim Collins? Good gosh guys.”
“JESSE?!?!?!?!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!”
“Crap it’s for Gregor Blanco, Jesse Chavez, and Tim Collins "

Rick Ankiel in 2008 = I’m excited.
Rick Ankiel in 2010 = Got more excited about my morning BM.

Farnsworth is… meh. Adds to the BP though, which is good.

We also added by subtraction by getting rid of Chavez.

“well Ankiel gives us great D "
“It might be ok, because the Royals are his second favorite team with all the former Braves. (: "
“I had a feeling that Wren would go after Farnesworth but didn’t expect Ankiel. Not sure I like parting with Gregor, but maybe putting Ankiel in our lineup would make him better. The deals out there were probably too steep with everyone asking for Mike Minor. Would have definitely cost us our best prospects to land anyone bigger or better. We fortified our pen and maybe we strengthened our offense. I can live with it!”

Rick Ankiel has more power than anyone in our outfield except Heyward, he has been hurt this year, what we will bring is a guy who can hit 10-15 homers, drive in some runs, and play some good defense we just added a rocket arm to the outfield and more team speed.

He is actually a better base runner than Blanco, he maximizes all the speed he has.

Now if Nate can somehow get his swing back, it will be really hard to get hits in our outfield, we got guys that cover lots of ground and make the throws, add Melky to that mix of course.

Oh and Ankiel is hot he is batting 462 in his last 13 at bats, and remember he just got off the DL, he is on pace for 12 home runs.

Playing for a contender and should also fire him up even more.

Starts hitting? LOL

He is batting 462 in his last 13 at bats, he is one of the hotter hitters right now since coming off the DL, he is on pace to hit 12 homeruns.

He hit a homerun right after coming off the DL, and got a rbi yesterday.

Guys this is a good trade Ankiel is slugging since coming off the DL.

1 homer, 6 rbi’s, 3 doubles, and 11 hits, 7 runs scored, this all from July 22nd till now!

“why trade Blanco that was dumb idea i say we should gave up on Mcclouth”

I suddenly like Dean Taylor

Tim Collins is my favorite minor leaguer. Not the best, but my favorite.

#Royals extend Ned Yost through 2012.

Who would you rather see him playing more? Getz? Pena? Our major league roster is wave after wave of garbage right now, the fact that we’re 31-37 under Yost despite what little he has to work with gets a vote of confidence from me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not arguing that he’s the end-all answer for the Royals, but we tried “outside the box” when we brought in some guy from the Nippon Ham Fighters to manage this team, and look how well that worked out.

I liked Yost when he was with the Brewers, and he did for them what we want him to do for us, see our young talent develop at the major league level and help this team turn the corner. In the meantime you and I will just have to agree to disagree.

like what the White Sox got for Thome…. hahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahahahahaha yeah right

Guillen might not be in Baseball by this time next year.

I have no problem with Yost signing until 2012. I like the dude, he’s a baseball guy. But in the interest of full disclosure, I would have taken Charlie Manson to get rid of Hillman.

Injury we have turned over the entire opening day starting OF, 2/3 of which was relatively expensive garbage. I somehow don’t think the whole exercise was necessary, but at least they’re gone. Too bad about DDJ, though. I’d still listen to offers for him, but I don’t think we’re going to get much for him in the off season. We might be better off picking up his option and playing him at least until the deadline next year. He’s not blocking anyone.

It makes me tingle in my lower regions.

it would be nice if he did the same with the remaining Guillen deal.

is airing :Countdown: The 40 Most Influential Trades." At number 35, Amos Otis traded to the Royals for a third basemen no one remembers.

Aaron Rowand PH in the national game. It reminded me, thank God we didn’t wind up with him. He had two random good seasons in ‘04 and ’07 and is sinking fast in the NL. I guess GMDM might have gone after him if he hadn’t sucked in ’05.

In Dawja Blue.

Bloomy or Guillen?

Greeeeeeeeeat. Anyone else have this problem? Of course, I am sharing the account with a couple other guys…

“Top Shelf defensive CF”

Bless them

I’m not sure Dayton Moore did his best. While I like Collins a lot all the way back to his Blue Jays days(a months ago essentially), he’s just a reliever. And if history has taught us anything it’s that relievers that don’t have the closer tag aren’t that valuable on the market (see Leo Nunez and Ramon Ramirez), even less value if you don’t have much of a pedigree which is the case here. And yet another lesson is that once the Braves give up on a pitching prospect, there isn’t much hope for the guy, with very few exceptions. Tim Collins might turn out fine and be light out, but there isn’t much upside here besides a Leo Nunez.

Gregor Blanco, career .268/.367/.366 hitter in the minors with a stealing percentage below 70% is at best a 4th OF on a mediocre team. The one positive is that he actually draw walks. The negatives are the aforementioned stealing percentage, complete lack of power, relative lack of pedigree(I don’t think he ever made a top 10 prospect list with the Braves and his “tools” are not that highly thought of), and the fact that when player can’t even hit (anywhere near) .300 in the minors, they usually can’t hit .260 consistently in the majors. With all that concern and you end up with a lesser Mark Teahen with more speed and less power (Teahen was a .291 career minor league hitter by the way)

Jesse Chavez: should not be a MLB pitcher in all but the most friendly environment. If he can’t cut it in the NL Central and the NL East, I don’t see much hope in the AL Central. Now it won’t be hard to top some of the guys the Royals are throwing out there but winning slightly more this year should not be the goal of the organization. Remember that only a couple more losses and we could have gotten a much better prospect in either Taillon or Machado at the draft.

I’m sorry to be long winded here but it was just a bit frustrating to see us get so little after the Pirates traded Dotel alone, a worse pitcher than Farnsworth, to the Dodgers for 1 top 100 prospects and 1 that is very much viable and they didn’t even have to throw in a good 4th OF.

Some of the former Braves we have in the organization has indeed worked out, but Moore needs to get out of his comfort zone and trade for some guys with no relations to the Braves if it means that we are getting a better deal.

Is the package of Andrew Lambo/James McDonald that the Pirates got for Dotel better than Gregor Blanco/Tim Collins and Jesse Chavez? It’s debatable and I’d be leaning towards the Lambo package. But the Pirates had far less to offer in the package. Which IMHO makes this a bad return for Ankiel/Farnsworth. It is not a bad trade considering the circumstance, but neither was the Beltran trade. It’s just that I think we are going to wonder what James McDonald could have done for the Royals in 5 years, just like some of us wonder what Youkilis or Cano could have been in KC.

Blanco ain’t much, but if his presence means less Bloomquist in the OF I can take it just fine.
Chavez has bounced from PIttsburgh to Tampa Bay to Atlanta to KC since the end of last season; not sure what that says about him, but he’s another arm to throw into the bullpen mix.
Collins seems to be the prize here, and any LHP who can miss bats like that has gotta be worth something, yes? I’m just disappointed they’re assigning him to Omaha instead of NWArk, for purely selfish reasons, since I’m roadtripping to the latter later this week.
Addition by subtraction. Let the Braves worry about AnKKKKKiel’s bizarre outfield routes and mighty non-connecting hacks and Farnsworth’s, well, Frankly He Worst-ness.
As to the Guillen/Kila conundrum, I hope to see Guillen in RF every day until his legs fall off and Kila in the lineup, whether 1B or DH. A reliever will probably go back down to Omaha in the next day or two, I’m guessing, and Kila will get the call. He damn well better play. Moore said multiple times that Kila was forcing their hand (and also mentioned the Dean Taylor pressure), so I’m going to go with the hope that ‘sooner or later’ will in this case be sooner.
Gordon should be in LF every damn day, Maier hopefully in CF every damn day (although I suppose they’ll have to start Blanco some…sigh) and Guillen out there until his legs are mutilated (or he gets dumped somehow, whether by trade or waiver claim—gads, please, somebody claim him and let’s hope Dayton has the sense to let him go—or outright release or whatever), and Kila in the lineup. This really needs to happen.

they’s gots some angry folks over at Talking Chop, and I don’t just mean about the deal; they seem like a pretty angry lot, period. Anyone have the heart to tell them about “AnKKKKKiel”?

Can’t wait for the next prospect pulse.

Moments of baseball discussion interrupted by forays into liberal v. conservative clamor. Last I looked, it was ‘MSNBC is not as slanted as FOX so you better take that back or I’m taking my ball and going home’ type ranting.

if anybody missed it.