According to Shannon Drayer and confirmed by Larry Stone, the Mariners have traded Rob Johnson to --who else?-- the Padres for the handsome return of a Player to be Named Later or cash.
Since there's nothing to discuss as far as the return, feel free to use this as another Rob Johnson's gone celebration thread for the time being.
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Eyeball Kid - December 21, 2010
Curious how this affects Jeff's bandwagon team.
Patrick Stites - December 21, 2010
Saying goodbye...
Going away… Seems like goodbye’s such a hard thing to say…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNfHU748SYQ
CapSea - December 21, 2010
I prefer
this
Coach Owens - December 21, 2010
Wow, just the other day I was looking at teams depth charts, noticed the Padres only had 1 catcher, and that how wonderful it would be if they took Johnson
It’s like a dream come true… only it involves Rob Johnson, so it’s a terrible dream
BaronVonBullshit - December 21, 2010
*thought how wonderful
BaronVonBullshit - December 21, 2010
Wasn't expecting that destination but hey, neat!
ThundaPC - December 21, 2010
Just curious...
where did you expect him to go?
wes W - December 21, 2010
Kansas City
CapSea - December 21, 2010
Now who would make you think that?
wes W - December 21, 2010
Because they love our shitty nobodies in a way that I don't think even San Diego has been able to appreciate.
CapSea - December 21, 2010
What?
I though KC was a good, young quality ballclub with good prospects on the up-and-coming.
Maybe I missed something.
wes W - December 21, 2010
Are you being sarcastic?
CapSea - December 21, 2010
They have the best farm system in baseball.
But yeah, still an awful MLB team right now.
Teej - December 21, 2010
Best farm system in baseball only makes a team good when it looks like management has some idea how to utilize it.
Like Tampa Bay. Kansas City doesn’t get the benefit of any doubt until they somehow field good team, despite how good their prospects may be.
CapSea - December 21, 2010
I agree.
Teej - December 21, 2010
Ding Ding Ding we have a winner.
(sorry, my reply button is Fucked up)
wes W - December 21, 2010
Houston
ThundaPC - December 21, 2010
Wow.
We have the opportunity to get a living, breathing player in return for Rob Johnson. Z is the man!
wes W - December 21, 2010
Or hey maybe 20 dollars.
You could buy some beer.
LeftArrow2 - December 21, 2010
God, I knew we should have talked to them before they traded Adrian Gonzalez
seattlebruin - December 21, 2010
Ho ho ho
katal - December 21, 2010
Fare thee well, Rob. At least you can ice your balls down with cold Port products after whiffing on Heath Bell sliders.
abender20 - December 21, 2010
Send over a bucket of ice with a bottle of champagne. Have the card read,
“Tough luck, get drunk on me, use the bucket to ice down your marbles, yours Z.”
RunningFool - December 21, 2010
I was hoping he would try a career change to rodeo clown.
At least then the goal is to let the bull get by you.
Droid Rage - December 21, 2010
Jason Churchill is reporting the Mariners will receive Mat Latos.
Janic - December 21, 2010
4.0 WAR Mat Latos?
That can’t be right.
katal - December 21, 2010
He's joking
Teej - December 21, 2010
What, who would ever do that?
Don’t get my damn hopes up.
wes W - December 21, 2010
Hey Kansas City....
EequalsMc2 - December 21, 2010
It wouldn't surprise me as that site is terrible
Poochie - December 21, 2010
Let's not turn this into a "Rip PI thread".
Everyone has their opinion, and that’s fine.
Thingray - December 21, 2010
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, not to their own facts.
Matthew - December 21, 2010
If it's fine then why even reply?
Poochie - December 21, 2010
Trade of the year
Aaroniero Arruruerie - December 21, 2010
Mmmm straight cash
Poochie - December 21, 2010
Plenty enoughy to fuel Z's cocaine habit.
Coach Owens - December 21, 2010
He has a coke habit?
Poochie - December 21, 2010
Two bottle a day, but at least it's delicious, zero calorie Coke Zero
seattlebruin - December 21, 2010
Make that three.
Fin - December 22, 2010
Wouldn't you if you were the GM of this team?
Coach Owens - December 21, 2010
No.
Cocaine is a drug you take during the good times, not the bad.
katal - December 21, 2010
No. You should cite your sources.
Poochie - December 21, 2010
Bah, I'm not in school anymore so I don't have to.
Coach Owens - December 21, 2010
I see it took.
abender20 - December 21, 2010
Coke makes you get shit done.
Scruffy Lefty - December 21, 2010
This is the kind of thing you say when you have never seen drugs of any kind at any point in your life
Aaron Campeau - December 21, 2010
It's nice there is one high school student that hasn't.
Jed MC - December 21, 2010
Pot isn't a drug.
bmxnw - December 21, 2010
As per the dictionary on my computer, a drug is
DrunkAmerican - December 21, 2010
Our hated rivals just let us make them worse.
Wacky.
JY - December 21, 2010
I wonder if I can talk any coworkers into making wacky bets about how many passed balls their new catcher will put up next season
seattlebruin - December 21, 2010
I bet you can, but first you'll have to talk up his ability to call the game and work with the pitching staff.
BrianL - December 21, 2010
Don't forget that he was the personal catcher for Cy Young winner Felix Hernandez.
Patrick Stites - December 21, 2010
Introduce them to the exciting and important stat, CERA
msb - December 22, 2010
This move needed to be done.
He was just blocking Steve Baron anyway.
Manzanillos Cup - December 21, 2010
D'oh.
SgtSasquatch - December 21, 2010
Well, there's something Rob Johnson can actually block.
wes W - December 21, 2010
So who's going to be the new Mariner everyone loves to hate?
quacker27 - December 21, 2010
The PTBNL
Teej - December 21, 2010
Doesn't Halman have to stick with the big league club this year?
He could be a candidate.
SgtSasquatch - December 21, 2010
Not sure what you mean, but no.
CapSea - December 21, 2010
I think he's thinking Halman is out of options and is getting that confused with rule 5 rules.
chezbergrur - December 21, 2010
Yeah I thought I read something that he's out of options.
SgtSasquatch - December 21, 2010
So he was added to the 40 man before 09,
“If a player is on the 40-man roster and not the active 25 man roster for any part of more than three seasons (in which he spent 20 or more total days of service in the minors), he is out of options and may not be assigned to the minors without first clearing waivers.”
So this would make this year his last ‘option’ year?
(sorry to side track)
SgtSasquatch - December 21, 2010
No, that would make this his first option year
I believe Greg Halman was added to the 40-man this year
seattlebruin - December 21, 2010
He was added in the '08 offseason.
2011 will be his last option year, I think.
JY - December 21, 2010
Aw crap
why was Halman added to the 40 man so early? Was it due to him signing really young?
seattlebruin - December 21, 2010
Yeah. He was in the AZL in 2005.
He’s been in this system forever.
marc w - December 21, 2010
Yup.
Balentien was added with even less experience at the upper levels, from what I remember.
JY - December 21, 2010
But I think for the same reason
I think he may have predated the additional year of servitude they added in ’06.
marc w - December 22, 2010
He did.
He was in the VSL for a long time before ever coming up. Halman, on the other hand, never officially did time in the summer leagues.
JY - December 22, 2010
Olivo?
chezbergrur - December 21, 2010
I'm just waiting for the signing to become official.
Droid Rage - December 21, 2010
Jack Wilson for me.
wes W - December 21, 2010
Me too.
Thingray - December 21, 2010
All of them
Matthew - December 21, 2010
Hierarchy of possibility...
1. Olivo
2. Figgins
3. League
4. Josh Wilson
5. Tuiasosopo
6. Olson
7. Bradley
SethGrandpa - December 21, 2010
I think there will be Tui hate here, but maybe not the 'average' fan.
For the average fan I’d guess:
1. Bradley (Money)
2. Figgins (Money)
3. League (Blown Saves)
4. J.Wilson (Like people will know the difference between either of them.)
5. Ryan (if he doesn’t bounce back with the stick.
6. Olivo (this low because of dingers. Fans love dingers)
SgtSasquatch - December 21, 2010
You could replace money with expectations
People hated Lopez partially because we expected him to be better than he was. When we expect nothing out of a player, they are difficult to hate.
Edgar for Pres - December 21, 2010
In my experience...
The “average” fans I encounter absolutely love Josh Wilson, due to him being a scrappy grit machine fueled by determination.
Please Don't Ban Me - December 21, 2010
Holy god every muscle in my body tensed up in agony as I read that.
Joe Metro - December 21, 2010
Hope you have a change of pants handy.
Eyebrows - December 21, 2010 via mobile
I think most people on the internet like Josh Wilson more than we should.
Edgar for Pres - December 21, 2010
I love Josh Wilson
seattlebruin - December 21, 2010
If only they'd give Josh Wilson more playing time he'd be great
Keep him in the lineup, coach, get him batting 4th or 5th, he was batting .300 before Jack Wilson returned from injury and took his playing time! Right??!
HititHere - December 22, 2010
Bradley should be below Figgins...
Even though he’s done shitty, people like him because he hasn’t blown up here yet.
Mine’s as follows:
1 Jack Wilson
2 Figgins
3 Tui
4 Olivo
5 whoever eles is shitty or no one likes
wes W - December 21, 2010
I thought people liked him because everyone else hated him.
ralphie81 - December 21, 2010
Figgins is nowhere on my list
One of the reasons I hated Lopez was he held Figgins back from punching Wakamatsu.
I suspect Olivo’s going to be my least favorite Mariner due to a combination of money / passed balls / crappy AB’s / Just Enough Power to Entice Casual Fans.
short - December 22, 2010
League is curable.
He just needs to start throwing his good pitch again. And until he does, I will be disappointed in him.
JY - December 21, 2010
Ichiro
seattlebruin - December 21, 2010
He hurts the team
seattlebruin - December 21, 2010
I know...
Why are we wasting 18 million a year on a FUCKING LEADOFF HITTER!!! I WANTS DINGERS!!!
wes W - December 21, 2010
I hate this line of questioning.
We do not love to hate people. We dislike and sometimes hate players who suck. It isn’t complicated.
Sec 108 - December 21, 2010
Whoever Jeff tells us to.
Robert - December 21, 2010
There is a santa claus
This is an awesome xmas gift.
wadswerth - December 21, 2010
Yay!
SethGrandpa - December 21, 2010
How many catchers have moved between us and the Padres?
Ben Davis
Olivo
Lampkin?
eknpdx - December 21, 2010
Ojeda.
MFAN - December 21, 2010
I can't believe Tom Lampkin was nearly a two win player in 1999.
Coach Owens - December 21, 2010
Hey.
Lamp was awwwwesome.
msb - December 22, 2010
Torrealba
Stormton - December 21, 2010
Wiki Gonzalez too, I believe.
marc w - December 22, 2010
Too bad we still have to see him two series every year.
LonelyintheBleachers - December 21, 2010
Yay, we got something for him!
Something >> Nothing.
ARock - December 21, 2010
Not necessarily.
Depends on the something.
ralphie81 - December 21, 2010
They could send Jack Z a $10 gift card to Starbucks for Rob Johnson and I'd applaud the move.
Joe Metro - December 21, 2010
Well, yeah.
That’s still a good something. I’m talking about, say, an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable. That’s a bad something.
ralphie81 - December 21, 2010
But still better than Rob.
The dump heap can catch.
Coach Owens - December 21, 2010
It could be Scott Spe...
Oops, almost said his name.
Kevman22 - December 21, 2010
Your tune will change when you find out somehow Yuni is coming back
Edgar for Pres - December 21, 2010
No more 4-strikeout innings
FIRE JACK Z!
Crystal for DH - December 21, 2010
Hey, just one more trade with the Padres before opening day, and we've cleared that 2% threshold!
nathaniel dawson - December 21, 2010
I'm going to wear a Rob Johnson M's jersey to the games in San Diego and go absolutely apeshit every time he comes to the plate.
Teej - December 21, 2010
If you wait three months you can probably get them for 75% off!
seattlebruin - December 21, 2010
So... still too much money?
CMC_Stags - December 21, 2010
What the fuck kind of cheap-ass store sells Rob Johnson jerseys in the first place??
Matt Erickson - December 22, 2010
And what the fuck kinda of cheap-ass motherfucker would buy a Rob Johnson jersey?
Matt Erickson - December 22, 2010
It would be really retarded to buy a jersey of a shitty player and wear it to Petco and go apeshit whenever they come to the plate.
Only idiots do that. Complete idiots.
abender20 - December 21, 2010
I was nearly passed out that entire game
seattlebruin - December 21, 2010
Like seriously, I had like eight beers during the USA-England game and you people are a bunch of alcoholics
seattlebruin - December 21, 2010
People who lives in houses filled with empty glass shouldn't throw stones.
abender20 - December 21, 2010
What about ping pong balls?
seattlebruin - December 21, 2010
I'll allow it.
abender20 - December 21, 2010
You say alcoholics like its a bad thing.
I just really enjoy the company of beer.
LeftArrow2 - December 21, 2010
"An Ode to Alcoholism," and other assorted addictions.
Performed by Alice in Chains, feat. The Lookout Landing Symphony.
THolt - December 21, 2010 via mobile
Too soon
We Die Young was a beautiful harbinger. And heavy as balls. Pour one out
tsunamijesus - December 22, 2010
I wonder what Jack Z said when he found out someone would actually take RJ off our hands
Hoyer: “We’re interested in Rob Johnson”
GMZ: “are you serious?”
Hoyer: “as a heart attack, what would you want in return?”
GMZ: “Straight cash homie”
I’m pretty sure that’s how it went down.
Darth Flamingo - December 21, 2010
I hope we get Clayton Richard or Wade LeBlanc, whoever is the one with the funny pitch face.
Slurvey - December 21, 2010
They both kind of have the same pitch face.
Richard
Leblanc
Noah Jarosh - December 21, 2010
Except I linked the pictures to the opposite player, so reverse them.
Noah Jarosh - December 21, 2010
I think getting just about anybody in return makes this a great deal.
He “calls a good game”, that’s got to be worth at least a AA/AAA player. If not, cash works for me.
Heydude - December 21, 2010
Soccer trades seem to run entirely on cash and loaned players.
Anything in the MLB CBA preventing a loan? Simply out of curiosity. I want RoJo gone as badly as anybody.
THolt - December 22, 2010 via mobile
You could trade a player for himself as the player to be named later.
I believe this happened once.
thehemogoblin - December 22, 2010
It's happened at least seven times
Including Brad Gulden who was traded here and back to the Yankees 30 years ago.
Kouvre - December 22, 2010
RoboRob! NOOOO!
JAH - December 22, 2010
There was a time...
When Johnson was going to save us from the catching doldrums that were Keji Jojima
New England Fan - December 22, 2010
Quite the backfire that was.
Kenji was really bad at the plaste his last year in Seattle, but Rob Johnson made him look like a champ.
sanford_and_son - December 22, 2010
2nd to last year, you mean
His last year here, 2009, he wasn’t half bad.
nathaniel dawson - December 22, 2010
In his defense 2010 is very forgettable
LeftArrow2 - December 23, 2010
I think many of us would like to forget 2010
nathaniel dawson - December 23, 2010
The Padres once gave us Ben Davis, we're just returning the favor with Rob Johnson.
Heydude - December 22, 2010
And Ben Davis got us Miguel Olivo!
MT Olson - December 23, 2010
How terrible is that offense going to be when you combine RobJob, no Adrian Gonzalez, and Petco Park?
thehemogoblin - December 23, 2010
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