Padres deal May, Redding for Quantrill

[General]

SAN DIEGO ---- The trade deadline isn't until the last day of July, but the Padres decided to start early. Late Friday night, they finalized a deal that will send pitchers Darrell May and Tim Redding and cash to the New York Yankees for veteran reliever Paul Quantrill, who was designated for assignment on Thursday.

Quantrill, a 36-year-old right-hander, went 1-0 with a 6.75 earned-run average in 22 games for the struggling Yankees, but as recently as 2003 he was one of the best setup men in baseball. That season, he boasted a 1.75 ERA in 89 appearance for the Los Angeles Dodgers as the pitcher most charged with handing a lead to record-setting closer Eric Gagne.

For his career, which also includes stops in Boston, Philadelphia and Toronto, Quantrill is 67-76 with a 3.82 ERA. His 2005 salary is $3 million.

In return for a struggling pitcher, Padres general manager Kevin Towers unloaded two of them on his good friend, Yankees GM Brian Cashman. The Padres brought in both the left-handed May and the right-handed Redding to help them resolve their woes at the back of the rotation. Neither pitcher had much success, however. May was 1-3 with a 5.61 ERA, including eight starts, and Redding was 0-5 with a 9.10 ERA, including six starts.

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[RockSports17]

Small trade.

Nonetheless, Two new pitchers, and hopefully they'll pitch a lil better here in NY.

[love_that_reefer]

What in the hell is Kevin Towers doing?

[Saber]

Saving money?

[love_that_reefer]

Nope

[McKain]

Well, Tim Redding is abominably bad, and has had 4 garbage years to go with one above average year, so he literally has no value, and his only positive attribute is that he's 27.

Darrell May has been very similar; 5 horrible years to go with one good year.

Paul Quantrill has at least shown the ability to succeed in the past, and it wasn't in New York, which seems to have become the deadlands for pitchers lately.

Quantrill's making $3,000,000
May's making $3,225,000
Redding's making $750,000

He's saving some money (albeit not much) and trading in two players who have essentially a 0% chance to succeed for someone who has at least a 1% chance to succeed.

[Steak]

This a trade of who cares other than hoping a new scenery would benefit the players in that trade.

[Halladay_is_God]

too bad, I would have loved if the jays went after Paul Quantrill

[Kingdom]

Redding sucked for Houston, he'll redefine suck in New York. Woo.

[General]

This is a turd for turd deal. It's not like we expected to get anything in return. Quantrill would have been released. It's nice to get something back for him.

[McKain]

That sort of implies that either Redding or May are "something."

[General]

They're shit. Shit's something, is it not?

[McKain]

True.

But Quantrill is equally shit, if not less so shit.

[HollywoodLeo]

the trade is a push. I haven't seen it verified anywhere, but apparantly we got Pedro Astacio...yet another "project" for the five hole I guess

[Kingdom]

But Quantrill has actually had success, as opposed to a couple of guys who haven done nothing in their careers. I'd rather take Quantrill on that note.