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MLB Trade Report: Tigers Acquire Anibal Sanchez and Omar Infante From Marlins

July 23, 2012 by 18 Comments

You sort of knew something like this was going to happen; the details were all we were waiting on.

Well, wait no more, Tribe fans.  It appears that the division-leading Detroit Tigers have upgraded their team by trading for SP Anibal Sanchez and IF Omar Infante from the under-performing Miami Marlins.  The move was first reported by Jon Paul Morosi (I think):

Peter Gammons followed up on the original report with additional details:

Giving up Jacob Turner is supposedly significant, as he’s considered a high-end pitching prospect (despite getting absolutely torched by the Angels last week). 1

But that’s a conversation for another day–a day that owner Mike Illitch knows he might not be around to see.

Today the Tigers filled their two biggest holes, and if they weren’t overwhelming favorites to win the division before this move, they sure look like it now.

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  1. Another interesting–if not entirely significant–detail: this marks the first trade in MLB history of competitive balance draft picks.  Can you feel the parity, baseball fans??? [back]

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  • The_Real_Shamrock

    How shocking Detroit made a move huh? Actually Chicago struck first with Youkilis then again with Myers.

    Yankees also got Ichiro.

  • mgbode

    dangit. I like Anibal Sanchez. He’s friggin’ good.

  • nj0

    Sanchez has had a down year. I think he’s in of the Ryan Garko mold and those guys fall off the table fast.

    Infante is a nice pick up.

  • nj0

    And technically the CWS struck first getting Youk.

  • nj0

    And it’s being reported that Ichiro goes to the Yankees. Odd.

  • nj0

    Sorry. Was thinking of Gaby Sanchez. Need to read better.

  • WFNYJon

    Good point. Title changed.

  • nj0

    I need to read other people’s posts before stating the same thing. Twice.

  • The_Real_Shamrock

    Dude I said that below too!

  • The_Real_Shamrock

    LoL it happens end of the day – Go Tribe LoL!

  • The_Real_Shamrock

    I just heard on MS&LL from Bud Shaw that Boston reportedly asked for either McAllister or Tomlin from the Indians for Youkilis but that the Indians were unwilling to part with either due to the struggles of Jeanmar Gomez. Boston supposedly didn’t like any of the other pitching prospects because they felt none of them could be potential starters next year.

  • http://www.cinpleweb.com/ stin4u

    Welcome to the end of the line Tribe fans!

  • The_Real_Shamrock

    Not before Thome hits another homerun where his statue will be tonight for Baltimore.

  • SDA

    your a little late that was opening day :D

  • nj0

    In my defense (for the first time), your post wasn’t there when I started typing. Also, I’m kind of an idiot.

  • nj0

    Hmmm… Kind of hard to give up either of those considering our current lack of starting pitching. That said, if we had a viable replacement, I wouldn’t be heart broken to trade Tomlin.

    Apparently there’s a lot of talk about SFG being interested in Perez.

  • http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/ Scott @ WFNY

    “Apparently there’s a lot of talk about SFG being interested in Perez”

    http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/2012/07/rosenthal-if-indians-sell-perez-and-choo-could-be-targets/

  • mgbode

    Gardner is out the year, they needed a speed guy for the bottom of the lineup and Ichiro gives them good defense with it.