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by Kyle Lobner on Dec 14, 2009 9:18 AM CST
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Some things to read while John Tesh rocks the NBA on NBC theme (h/t Amy K. Nelson).
Randy Wolf is expected to undergo a physical this morning and once he does, expect his contract to become official sometime later today. That might not be today's only announcement, though: the Brewers are also expected to finalize a deal with Craig Counsell today. With Counsell, Prince Fielder, Rickie Weeks, Alcides Escobar, Mat Gamel and Casey McGehee all on the roster, the Brewers' Opening Day infield is probably set, barring injury or trade.
Meanwhile, Mike Rivera is surprised to be looking for work after being non-tendered over the weekend. He thought the decision not to retain Jason Kendall would give him an edge as the only returning catcher familiar with the Brewer pitching staff.
As of this writing, roughly 4% of voters in the poll on your right listed the decision to offer Dave bush a 2010 contract as the one Brewer move from this weekend they would change. That's not exactly a large chunk of the fanbase, but In-Between Hops is taking on that vocal minority, making the case that the Brewers made the right move by giving Bush another shot.
If you missed Morineko's Weekend Mug, follow the link over to it for full coverage of the Brewers' arbitration decisions, and a link to this list of all the non-tenders leaguewide.
Looking back at last week, Jon Heyman ranked the Brewers among the Winter Meeting winners. Meanwhile, Marc Hulet of The Baseball Analysts listed Rule 5 selection Chuck Lofgren in the "Why Bother?" category.
The more I think about it, the more I think Lofgren will have a tough task ahead of him if he's going to make the team out of spring training. With Trevor Hoffman, LaTroy Hawkins, Todd Coffey, Claudio Vargas and Mitch Stetter back, there's only two bullpen spots left that are potentially available (barring injury), and Chris Smith, John Axford, Chris Narveson, Zach Braddock and now Lofgren fighting for them. I like Lofgren's potential and hope the Brewers will get an opportunity to realize it, but right now he might be the third or fourth best lefty in the bullpen competition.
If you have a vague interest in Brewer baseball, but wish there was less analysis and more profanity on this site, then Miller Park Drunk's RUNNING series might be just the ticket for you. Follow these links for bad Prince Fielder jokes, some fan fiction involving Ryan Braun trying to rap, and a vague musical reference to Rickie Weeks.
In the minors: Baseball Intellect has video footage of some at bats featuring Cameron Garfield, Cutter Dykstra and Josh Prince from a Pioneer League game back in July. They're pay-only, but there are worse ways to spend $2.95.
If you were gone this weekend, you didn't miss the opportunity to help select a center fielder and catcher for the BCB All Decade Team. Voting closes at 4 pm today for center fielders and 4 pm tomorrow for catchers. We'll open the voting for the final starting outfield spot later today.
Around baseball:
Blue Jays: Signed catcher John Buck to a one-year deal worth $2 million, signed Joey Gathright to a minor league deal,
Braves: Signed Matt Diaz to a one year, $2.55 million deal, avoiding arbitration.
D-Backs: Re-signed infielder Augie Ojeda to a one year deal, and avoided arbitration with Blaine Boyer.
Dodgers: Signed pitcher Josh Towers to a minor league deal.
Giants: Signed shortstop-turned-pitcher Tony Pena Jr. to a minor league deal.
Indians: Re-signed pitchers Adam Miller and Anthony Reyes to minor league deals.
Marlins: Signed catcher Ronny Paulino to a one-year deal, avoiding arbitration.
Nationals: Re-signed Scott Olsen to a one year deal. Also signed pitcher Ryan Speier to a minor league deal.
Padres: Signed pitcher Kevin Correia to a one year deal, avoiding arbitration.
Pirates: Signed Ronny Cedeno to a one year, $1.125 million deal, avoiding arbitration.
Rangers: Signed infielder Esteban German to a one year deal, avoiding arbitration.
Rays: Avoided arbitration with catcher Dioner Navarro and pitchers Grant Balfour, Rafael Soriano, Lance Cormier and Randy Choate.
Royals: Avoided arbitration with pitchers Brian Bannister and Kyle Davies. They also signed pitcher Bruce Chen and catcher Vance Wilson to minor league deals.
White Sox: Signed J.J. Putz to a one year deal.
Meanwhile, the market heated up immediately for Yankees non-tender Chien-Ming Wang, with Ken Rosenthal reporting that six teams have already expressed interest. He doesn't list the teams, but I wouldn't be surprised to discover the Brewers are one of them.
I promise, I'm not going to mention it every time someone says something new about Jason Kendall. In fact, I might try to go the rest of the week without mentioning him at all. With that said, I thought these three links about him were interesting:
- Joe Posnanski has a look at the potential Opening Day lineup for the 2010 Royals, now including Kendall.
- He also compares Kendall to a superball on the field at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
- Reminding us all how far and how fast Kendall has fallen, Where Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke? named Kendall the Pirate Catcher of the Decade.
Weeks ago I linked to a post from minor league veteran Garrett Broshuis, mentioning the challenges in finding quality, healthy food in minor league clubhouses. It looks like that problem may be on its way to being resolved: After discussing it at the Winter Meetings, several teams are making an effort to provide healthier options, and remove the constant flow of junk.
If you're a fan of sabermetrics, or just want to learn more about them, I've got two links for you today:
- TangoTiger has a look at OPS+, and some minor adjustments that could be made to it to make it more useful than some other advanced metrics.
- That post links to this one, Big League Stew's beginner's guide to wOBA. I learned a fair amount by reading that one.
Gorman Thomas celebrated a birthday over the weekend, and while this probably isn't what he had in mind for a gift, David Chalk of Seventh Inning 'Stache has inducted him into the MLB Mustache Hall of Fame.
On this day in 1998, the Brewers acquired Alex Ochoa from the Twins for a minor leaguer named Darrell Nicholas. Ochoa spent one season as a Brewer, hitting .300/.404/.466 before being traded to the Reds for Mark Sweeney after the season.
Happy birthday today to:
- Former Seattle Pilot and 1970 Brewer Greg Goossen, who turns 64.
- Dave Nilsson, who appeared in 837 games as a Brewer and turns 40.
- Marcus Jensen, who appeared in 18 games over two tours as a Brewer and turns 37.
Sean Forman, founder of Baseball Reference, is also celebrating his birthday today. You can help him celebrate by sponsoring a page. I know someone around here will want this one.
Drink up.
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John Tesh live at Red Rocks? Seriously? Who pays for that?
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
I have no idea
But the folks who did got to listen to a tape of him singing the NBA on NBC theme to his answering machine, so I doubt they left disappointed.
That's all I've got for you today, unless you're interested in some Chris Capuano/Tom Haudricourt Fan Fiction.
Yeah
I’m sure they were nearly as thrilled when Tesh then proceeded to pretend to dribble a basketball, prance around to his keyboard in grand Siegfried and Roy style, and then break into the actual NBA theme song.
I had goosebumps, let me tell you.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Dec 14, 2009 9:50 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
McClung seems pretty depressed about being non-tendered
Here’s a tear-jerker tweet.
that just kills me.
"That's not a weird stat. Rickie is a run-scorer," Yost said. "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter," Yost told reporters. "See, you guys have no concept. He's a run-scorer. So there's nothing weird about it. That's what he does."
Fangraphs and wRC+
Fangraphs took that lesson from Tango to heart and made a stat called wRC+ available. You can think of it as wOBA+. It supposedly takes park effects and everything like that into account, so it seems like a pretty neat little stat to have.
Here’s the link talking about it: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/what-is-wrc
==
Check out Wezen-Ball.com
I read that exact same wOBA article
and it stemmed from the stat you are referencing.
Inst the wRC+ more of a Runs Created stat though, opposed to woba+? At least thats what I had gathered. Why wouldnt they just have called it wOBA+ then?
Very enlightening article from Big League Stew though. I love how they park adjust things and then turn it into a below or above league average measurement. Wonder how long it will be until they put something like that together for pitching stats. Id love to see something like that regarding Randy Wolf and the low BABIP against, and then pitching home games in a pitcher friendly park.
They could just
use statcorner’s wOBA+ numbers. Or, anyone here could, for that matter.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Dec 14, 2009 10:18 AM CST up reply actions
Maybe I remembered the phrasing poorly. In the Fangraphs article, Dave Appleman says “you can think of this stat as a wOBA based version of OPS+”. I guess that’s not the same thing as wOBA+.
However you think of it, though, I think it’s a great thing for Fangraphs to show us.
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Check out Wezen-Ball.com
Didn't Tango's article say that you can use wOBA to calculate wRC?
If that’s the case, then shouldn’t wRC+ and wOBA+ at least be similar?
That's all I've got for you today, unless you're interested in some Chris Capuano/Tom Haudricourt Fan Fiction.
That's what it sounds like
I haven’t check for similarities. If there are any differences, my guess is they’d come from how the averages were determined…
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I don't get the Chin Ming-Wang excitement
A guy with a career ERA+ of 107 with a K/9 rate of 4.2 and a BB/9 of 2.6 coming off a season with a 9+ ERA. If he can be had for league minimum plus incentives for innings pitched, great. But with six teams involved, plus the threat of just going back home I doubt he can be had that cheaply. They would probably be better off keeping McClung, for both financial and performance based reasons.
When there is a scuffle in Ireland, there’s no need to specifically mention in the news story that alcohol was involved
Ehhh
No, I don’t think they’d have been better off keeping McClung. As it stands, prior to signing Counsell and Vargas, the payroll is at about $80.5M, which is around what it has been on opening day each of the last two seasons. I’d assume Counsell gets around $2M and Vargas around $750k, which drives payroll over $83M, with a last roster spot to fill, presumably by a league min guy making around $400k. That gets to just under $84M to start the year, the highest ever. McClung made nearly $1.7M last season, and would probably make at least $1.8 this year, so I’d bet that Vargas will be less of a financial commitment. Hawkins, on the other hand, costs more than would McClung. But I don’t think anyone will argue McClung is/will be more effective than Hawkins. Mark A. loves his fabled ‘flexibility’ and has shown he’s willing to go to $90 with in-season acquisitions. I just don’t see any substantial signings going on without a commensurate off-loading of salary dollars via trade.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Dec 14, 2009 9:58 AM CST up reply actions
Olney
Speculates that he might wait until closer to spring training to sign when his arm is healthier and he can throw for teams.
Get a ife broseph
That's great
But I was implying that they would be better off keeping McClung than bring in CM-W, who will likely cost more and be less good.
When there is a scuffle in Ireland, there’s no need to specifically mention in the news story that alcohol was involved
by Getting Yosted on Dec 14, 2009 10:22 AM CST up reply actions
McClung would be a more amusing tweeter though.
Applying Simpsons and Star Wars quotes to Brewers discussions since 2009.
Wow, not even CLOSE.
Some decent ones though:
At least I didn’t get a loss. I Try to pitch shut out next time.
i like eat pizza now. I remember first time saw pizza, i thought the cheese was eggs.
yesterday was good game. I joke with Joba – I teach him how to throw sinker, he teach me how to do fist pump.
Applying Simpsons and Star Wars quotes to Brewers discussions since 2009.
McClung's name isnt' nearly as punnable, though.
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
Hung like McClung?
Taking shallowness to new depths -- FtJ's blog
by Fatter than Joey on Dec 14, 2009 12:23 PM CST up reply actions
A few
guys that were non tendered went right and signed Free Agent contracts with the teams that released them. At a discount of course.
If they really wanted McClung, they could have offered him a contract right after non tendering him for less money.
I always thought that the Brewers used McClung badly. I always felt he was more suited for the closer or 8th inning role than as a starter or long reliever.
I am no Wang fan either. But he screams overpayment by a desperate team this year, so maybe he is right up the Brewers alley.
Agreed
Wang doesn’t really excite me that much. He probably won’t be worth the price it takes to get him.
"A D+ Grade? That must have been a Wittardo grade"- @73_MC
by BrewHaHeather on Dec 14, 2009 11:08 AM CST up reply actions
Wang doesn’t really excite me that much.
We agree on this.
Taking shallowness to new depths -- FtJ's blog
by Fatter than Joey on Dec 14, 2009 12:23 PM CST up reply actions
ba dum bum..
..ching
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
the good old minor league contract
Sadly it looks like McClung would have even taken that but wasn’t offered it….
I’d wait on Wang until mid-season. He wouldn’t be the first or last pitcher taking that signing route after an injury.
agree with you on mcclung
i remember seeing him “close” a spring training game and he was consistently up in the high 90’s. you could hear the grunting in the stands. melvin was beaming after the game about it.
but i heard his fastball was considered “too straight” to be effective in such a role. best of luck to him.
by Capt Science on Dec 14, 2009 11:19 AM CST up reply actions
Ah
Well, I didn’t think it would realistically be considered. Wang will most likely never sign in Milwaukee.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Dec 14, 2009 11:17 AM CST up reply actions
Bloomberg fantasy
This looks like an awesome addition for fantasy baseball next year.
Get a ife broseph
Anyone else see this from Tommy H.
Here are some nuggets, and support of my feeling that Mevlin & Co. are probably planning on 2011 as the big push for the playoffs:
“It’s not a rebuild,” manager Ken Macha insisted at the winter meetings. “It’s kind of a shifting, a little bit. We’re still in it to win.”
I think its funny that Tom asked if it was a rebuild, and that Macha felt the need to actually comment on it.
“We only have $7 million in commitments to contracts (for 2011),” said Melvin. “There were only two clubs in baseball with less than that. That’s why we were able to do multi-year deals.”
Melvin referred to Braun’s $4 million salary in 2011 and buyouts of $2 million to right-hander Jeff Suppan, $500,000 to closer Trevor Hoffman and $250,000 to reliever David Riske on options on their contracts.
Although its ridiculous to assume that Hoffman will have less than 35 GF, and that isn’t including arb raises due, which will be headlined by Prince’s $18M award.
“If you look back, maybe we should have signed him last year for two years at $6 million (per),” said Melvin, noting Wolf had signed a one-year deal with his hometown Los Angeles Dodgers for $5 million.
The first step in recovery is admitting you have a problem. So its nice to see Melvin at least taking partial responsibility for an inability to identify pitching talent on the open market.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Dec 14, 2009 10:15 AM CST reply actions
Prince and rebuild
I see him getting more like $16 million in arb next year.
So do you think that if they are making the 2011 push, that means Fielder stays on board right to the very end? Has to be the case if you postulate that. Just soooo short term oriented, bad bad planning by a small market team imo.
Even if they are making the 2011 push, they still would need at least one pretty good pitcher. With Gallardo, a year older Wolf, an uncertain Parra, then what? If I were Melvin, I wouldnt be putting too much faith in that rotation.
I think the faith in that rotation
revolves around Parra. Gallardo, Wolf, and pitching-to-potential-Parra could be a very, very good front of the rotation. Gallardo, Wolf, and 2009-Parra is much more underwhelming.
"A D+ Grade? That must have been a Wittardo grade"- @73_MC
by BrewHaHeather on Dec 14, 2009 11:13 AM CST up reply actions
Yes
I think if Parra can be the pitcher people hope he can be he is that solid #2 starter. And Wolf as a #3 works nicely.
I saw Parra pitch in Beloit pre surgery and he looked pretty dang good. When he returned, even though he was still throwing very hard, I had felt his fast ball lacked movement and would get hit pretty easily. He really has improved his curveball, and I think his changeup is a plus pitch at times too.
If he could improve his makeup, he definitely can be really good. I just dont know about him. I wonder about his composure and injury risk. Thats a lot to hope for when making the 2011 or even 2010 push. It would be a different story if Parra had improved last year instead of the monumental regress. If he had improved I could see the 2010 or 2011 push.
If they're in it, then he's around
if they’re out, he’s traded at the deadline.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Dec 14, 2009 11:16 AM CST up reply actions
We need to be more than in it
Based on what we can get out of it, and what happens to a bullpen with a shortage of arms at the end of the season (tank). If we don’t have a good lead over STL at the all-star break, veggie jackson is trade bait.
Yes, we won’t be wasting at-bats on Hall and Kendall, and Weeks will be in the lineup all year, but we didn’t collapse because of offense, we fell apart because they were gluing middle relievers together trying to fill spots in the rotation. Even if Wolf & Co. give us 10 games better than last year we’re still out of the playoffs.
Trade & rebuild, so we don’t have to wait forever to see the postseason again.
Weeks will be in the lineup all year
That’s never a guarantee
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
My above
isn’t a “this is what should be done” comment, its a “this is what I think Doug Melvin will do” comment.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Dec 14, 2009 1:31 PM CST up reply actions
I think we should trade him
I love Prince, I think he’s awesome. But he’s the kind of awesome that can stock a farm system and still be admired from afar.
I thought it a foregone conclusion
2010 was the last year of Prince in Milwaukee. The only reason he will be around that long is the offers for him this off-season are pretty much what they can expect for him next off-season. If they ride Prince into 2011, that is an epic fail and I will need to borrow palms to apply to my face.
When there is a scuffle in Ireland, there’s no need to specifically mention in the news story that alcohol was involved
by Getting Yosted on Dec 14, 2009 11:53 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Where'd you see that?
Are you reading a “this is the thing that should be done if Doug Melvin is not an utter Dayton Moore” blog or something? Or do you really think Melvin is going to trade Fielder before the 2011 season starts?
I don’t think he even thinks about trading Fielder until the deadline in 2011.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Dec 14, 2009 1:32 PM CST up reply actions
Well...I think Melvin should see what's out there for trades before 2011 if all the following things happen:
1) Prince has another amazing year
2) The young infielders look like they can fill the hole (i.e. maybe Gamel at 1st and hitting)
3) The ’Crew fails to make the playoffs because of a bad rotation
If we could get a top starter and some prospects or relief for him, that might make 2011 a playoff season (Gallardo, New Stud, Wolf, Not Suppan!!!, Parra). Plus it may free up a little $$$. Prince is not going to be easy to keep!
Look
I’m not saying I personally think it is in the best interest of the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club to keep Prince Fielder until he hits free agency.
I’m just saying I personally think, based on how I think he’s operated in the past, that Doug Melvin will not try to trade Prince Fielder until the 2011 trade deadline.
I’ve been wrong and pleasantly surprised before (this year, for example—glad it was Wolf rather than Davis).
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Dec 14, 2009 2:32 PM CST up reply actions
Fielder Write Up
On Daily Dish:
http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2009/12/14/1199954/prince-fielder-on-similar-track-as
I agree with the post.
I think the problem with waiting on 2011’s offseason to deal him is that the trade value/surplus value goes way down.
In the Teixiera/Holliday trades mentioned above, most times the return is a top prospect package, rarely involving guys that are already established.
I think its a good return for the Brewers if they dealt him now, and did not get anyone who was ready for 2 years still but were of the caliber of Neftali Feliz and Elvis Andrus.
I concur
I don’t think The Mustache does, however.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Dec 14, 2009 2:40 PM CST up reply actions
I think that post on Daily Dish was removed...
I did find:
http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2009/12/14/1200386/red-sox-sign-john-lackey
That mentions:
Lackey gives the Red Sox a lot of options down the road. The Sox can choose to go after a big name power bat, surrendering young pitching like Michael Bowden or Clay Buchholz. Or, they could let Jon Lester and John Lackey lead that rotation by making Josh Beckett available this season, perhaps using him to entice the Brewers or Padres into making a big move around Prince Fielder or Adrian Gonzalez, respectively.
Brewers Comedy
Here’s a video of Robin Yount doing the weather on TMJ4.
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
"You got ooowned!"
That was pretty awesome
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Yeah
Dave Nilsson is only two years older than Gregg Zaun. Wow.
by Cheeseandcorn on Dec 14, 2009 7:11 PM CST up reply actions
Alex Ochoa
In 1999, my son was 8 years old, and I remember coming to a game early and watching BP/warmups with him in the left field corner at County Stadium. It was early in the season, and I’d just bought a Brewers Yearbook on the way in. I was paging through and noticed that there was a full page picture of Ochoa on one of the pages. He happened to be shagging fly balls, running, etc, and naturally all the kids were calling for baseballs from the players that were out there. I pointed out Ochoa’s picture to my son and told him to call out “Alex” by name to get his attention. As my son was concentrating on that, I had the yearbook open to Ochoa’s picture, positioned above my son’s head. Ochoa noticed us and threw a ball into my son’s glove. Needless to say, Alex Ochoa was a favorite Brewer for one 8 year old the rest of that season.
Huh.
Heyman wins.
That's all I've got for you today, unless you're interested in some Chris Capuano/Tom Haudricourt Fan Fiction.
You mean Rosenthal wins?
Brewers Baseball and other assorted nonsense (mostly the assorted nonsense) at my blog, What's a Tararrel?
Yep.
Clearly.
That's all I've got for you today, unless you're interested in some Chris Capuano/Tom Haudricourt Fan Fiction.
i'm just trying to get my head around Lackey in Boston
and now this? (5 years to Lackey, though, this is not going to end well. I called it a Reverse Suppan on Twitter—where they picked up a guy they kill, as opposed to the ones who kill them and then find out they can only play well against the team they play for. Hopefully for the Sox the problem with Lackey vs. Boston was the Sox lineup, not Fenway Park. he did bring a no-hitter into the 9th there, but….)
He did well against teams not named the Red Sox, you know...
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
it's the "half his starts in Fenway" that I'm worried about
Still trying to tease out if it was the Sox or the park that was the problem….
nevermind, I read that wrong.
I was wondering why you were saying the Red Sox lineup wasn’t very good…..
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
Is this a good deal for the M's?
The Mariners give up 3 prospects for 1 year of Cliff Lee. Doesn’t it generally go the other way around for small market teams? I guess it’s a fair price given Lee’s dominance, but is it a fair price the Mariner’s can afford to pay?
Jack Z’s number crunchers must have them a handful of wins away from the postseason in 2010. There’s absolutely no other reason for them to make this move. This is really an all-or-nothing move by a pretty short-tenured GM. Should we expect a counter-move from the Angels or Rangers?
Does anyone know if there’s a reason to believe the Angels and Rangers are going to be considerably worse in 2010? The Mariners need to add at least 10 wins over last season to expect to compete with NY or Boston for the wild card so one would reason they’re going to be making a run for the divisional title.
The Angels will be minus Lackey, Figgins, and Vlad and they've missed out on everybody they've gone after so far.
All they have to show for their offseason so far is Matsui. I think there’s reason to think they’ll be worse than last year..
Lookout Landing’s post already has 826 comments. My favorite is this one:
SUDDEN-LEE I REGAIN MY HARDEN!!!!
It has 15 recs.
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
Lookout Landing is one of the best websites on the internet.
If they’re happy with the move, it’s a good move for the Ms. The Mariners are my AL team because of that site.
E: George 4 (5, throw, throw, throw, throw).
Same with me.
I sometimes read through the comments there when I am bored just for the entertainment value.
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/12/14/1200408/jon-heyman-says-phillies-blue-jays#27136602
E: George 4 (5, throw, throw, throw, throw).
As long as they don't make a push for Bay.
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
What and let him play in RF?
I’ll be happy to watch their corner OF play terrible defense all next year, while being weighed down by even more albatross contracts.
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Dec 14, 2009 8:02 PM CST up reply actions
I'm just hoping Milton has to stick around.
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
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