Think it's actually someone else's kids?

"Padres outfielder Carlos Quentin, who just may be the best hitter dealt this month, has drawn trade interest from the Reds, Indians and Pirates, among others, according to sources.

It's no secret why Quentin would be popular as a trade target, as many contending teams could use a corner outfielder. The Marlins are believed to have inquired at one point, but it isn't certain whether their acquisition of Carlos Lee might take them out of the running for Quentin.

The Tigers and Blue Jays were originally seen as teams that might make a run at Quentin, but Delmon Young is starting to hit better for the Tigers, who seem more interested in a starting pitcher (Matt Garza?) and an infielder (Marco Scutaro?), while the Jays are more likely to trade a hitter or acquire a pitcher, depending on whether they are a buyer or seller."

Amazing baseball card attic find could top $3M at auction

It’s stories like this that make me want to raid every attic in my family. An Ohio man in charge of his late aunt’s estate, was cleaning out her attic when he stumbled across what might be the single greatest private collection of baseball cards ever.

Karl Kissner was sorting through the piles of mess in his late aunt Jean Hench’s attic when he stumbled across nearly 700 cards from a exceedingly rare set called the E98 set, made around 1910. Included in the set were names like Cy Young, Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the holy grail of baseball card collections, Honus Wagner. Even more amazing, the cards were in nearly perfect condition.

In fact, the Honus Wagner was graded as a perfect, Gem Mint 10 – a score that would be hard to achieve for a card from a freshly opened pack today, let alone a card printed over 100 years ago that had been collecting dust in an Ohio attic.

Currently, there is an estimate on the entire collection of nearly $3M at auction – and that might be a bit conservative. The Wagner card has been available in a live auction for awhile now, and will continue into August. As of today, bidding for just that one card is at $55,000.

If ever you needed a reason to go and do some late spring cleaning, this would be it.

Jose Lopez is on a pace to get 100 rbi's if Acta can find a way to get him 500 at bats. In the absence of a run producer hitting from the right hander's batting box, I give Lopez every day status the second half of the season. He can play first, second, and third bases so there should be the opportunities. He could also DH against southpaws.

Carlos Quentin would be a welcome addition for the stretch run. The time to act is now.

Shelly Duncan and Carlos Santana have to show some nads in the second half.

Well, the White Sox took care of their 3rd base problem. Will the Indians spend some of the revenue sharing instead of banking it? I'm guessing not.

I'm with joez on Jose Lopez. He needs serious playing time, barring any 3B additions.

I also agree with him that Carlos Quentin would look good here.

Its awful late to complain, but Willingham's 22 homers and 64 RBI would have sure helped our team. Did he not want to come here or did we not make an offer?

Indians released OF Trevor Crowe.

Crowe was batting just .250 with a .722 OPS in 152 plate appearances this season at Triple-A Columbus. The 28-year-old will try to latch on with a new organization.

Source: Jordan Bastian on Twitter Jul 16 - 3:22 PM

loufla wrote:Its awful late to complain, but Willingham's 22 homers and 64 RBI would have sure helped our team. Did he not want to come here or did we not make an offer?

We didn't want to give him 3 years. We did, however, want to give Grady Sizemore $5 million.

Trevor Crowe...sigh.

A few weeks ago I read that the Indians expected Grady back after the All Star break. Has anyone seem him lately? Or heard anything? Not tht I actually care

Maybe he'll be back mid-September. That's after the All-Star break.

With the Angels and the Tigers waking up to play to pre-season expectations and the Yankees pulling away in the East, more AL teams than expected not long ago may begin to think about being sellers at the deadline.

Baltimore, Boston, Tampa, Toronto, Kansas City, Minnesota, Oakland and Seattle all look to be possibly 10 plus out by this weekend. If so, that leaves only five other AL teams with The Tribe in contention for a Division win, or on the bubble. The wild card race may be mathematically tight for those far out today, but I think some GM's might concede that Detroit and the Angels will now change that quickly.

In the NL, there are already 6 for sure irrelevant teams as the trade deadline approaches, and likely more to come.

But, but just look at all the money we saved.

Er, uh, well Dolan did anyway.

Acta needs to move ACab down in the order. He's a rally killer between a bunch of productive hitters.

I know he'll get his swing/eye/whatever back, but he needs to do it at a spot lower down in the batting order.