UPDATE: Cards Acquire Holliday, page 26

[clevername]

wow. Can we still jinx it?

[fanforever]

Not official... but teams are reviewing medical/physical info on all players ... but this will happen unless there is an unexpected medical issue that teams are unaware of ...

This is 100 percent golden information.

You will have to just trust me on it.

Announcement later today if all goes well.

John Mozeliak has just boarded a plane, and is en route to Philadelphia. (which should tell us plenty.)

deal will be as reported by Tim Kurkjian of ESPN: Brett Wallace, Clayton Mortensen and Shane Peterson to Oakland for Matt Holliday.

-Cheeseburger

Awesome...we have a cleanup hitter....

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Holliday may be our best chance at a playoff run and World Series this year

surely you jest. i hope..

of what we have available and are likely to get, no I'm not jesting. It sounds like we've been out of the Halladay discussion for a while. Holliday was much more attainable.

Who would you prefer?

Plus, look at it this way. What gains us more wins. Halladay over todalion or Holliday over Ankiel/Stainoha?

this.

Pitching wins championships..

Weaver, Carp and Suppan won in 2006. I would take Carp, Wano and Lohse/Pineiro any day of the week.

seasons like 2006 come once in a lifetime. You can't use that as a reason to stay put.

2008: Meyers, Moyer and Hamels. (ERA+ in 2008: 96, 118, 142)
2009: Pineiro, Wano, Carpenter (ERA+ in 2009: 135, 141, 184)

[cards2468]

Awesome...we have a cleanup hitter....

I really don't see him being much better than Ludwick, tho I will be happy to have both of them.


As for that article calling Holliday Pujols' best protection ever... I have a hard time believing Rolen or Edmonds in their prime weren't better.

[Ace]

ESPN just said it was official.

[Cronos]

If this really is done, I should be more excited about this then I am. I hope we can sign him somehow.

One thing it should mean is Ankiel to the bench, which I'm very happy about.

[cards2468]

why hasn't Strauss, Goold, or Leach chimed in yet?

[skmsw]

Bernie saying it's a done deal.

The Holliday Trade Will Happen

. . . John Mozeliak has just boarded a plane, and is en route to Philadelphia -- which should tell you all you need to know . . .

-B

LOL -- Moze was spotted at the airport!!!

[cards2468]

If this really is done, I should be more excited about this then I am. I hope we can sign him somehow.

One thing it should mean is Ankiel to the bench, which I'm very happy about.

the downside is Ankiel will be the primary bat off the bench and even when he was consistently good, his bat off the bench blew

[fanforever]

We get Holliday....now the Phillies and Dodgers have to be concerned with US. I want him in the lineup tonight against the lefty Happ