Deadline Deals 2006

[soupcan]

2007:

Abreu - $15,000,000.00
Damon - $13,000,000.00
Matsui - $13,000,000.00

That's just the outfield.

[Elster88]

I think the left side of the infield will approach 50 million next year. Is Giambi's contract still running at around 18 too?

[Guest Iubitul]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: We can also hope Abreu's slugging % over his last 600 PAs (.424) indicates that he's hardly worth the $17 billion the MFYs are on the hook for.

Yes, but I fear that he'll be a "change of scenery" type of player, and go on an insane hot streak...

[Elster88]

I don't think the Abreu trade makes them that much better this year. I figured they were getting Matsui and Sheffield back anyway for the stretch run. Pitching is what they need.

It does make them much better for next year, though.

But Abreu is a lazy slob anyway. Imagine how good he'd be if he got in shape and actually cared? "He was born on third and thinks he hit a triple."

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I don't know if an Abreu flop in the Bronx is likely, but it's certainly possible, and something to root for.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

We also have to bank on Mystique and Aura being designated for assignment to make room for these guys.

[Guest Edgy DC]

How much did the Sidney Ponson era set them back?

[Guest Rotblatt]

This was a steal for the Yankees.

Ah, well.

I just hope that we can get a similar salary dump from Houston. Oswalt would make me mighty happy. I'd do Milledge & Heilman for him.

[Frayed Knot]

="Edgy DC"]How much did the Sidney Ponson era set them back?

Minimum wage. He's a non-factor at this point.




Reports have it that not only did the Yanx NOT guarantee Abreu's option year (2008), but that it was the Phils who paid him to waive his no-trade clause ($1.5mil).
I can understand why the Phils preferred to deal him - but this shows what happens when you decide that you have to make a trade. You've always got to be prepared to walk away from a bad deal and they clearly weren't. Cashman, meanwhile, lost a potential situational reliever plus 3 guys who are in Low-A ball. I had my problems with Abreu and he's def overpaid but it's not like he's fallen so far to the point where he's an addition-by-subtraction guy.

[soupcan]

I used to have a link to a site that had player contracts - how much, how long for each player, but somehow I lost it. Any one have a link to anything like that?

[TransMonk]

Tigers get Pirates' 1B Casey for minor-leaguer

[Guest GYC]

soupcan wrote: I used to have a link to a site that had player contracts - how much, how long for each player, but somehow I lost it. Any one have a link to anything like that?

http://www.mlb4u.com/

[soupcan]

Merci beaucoup!

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

The soup of the day is French Onion.

[Guest cooby]

Abreau is on my fantasy team too; I wouldn't mind if he heated up a little, until October.

[soupcan]

I may be off a little but for what is worth check this out:


Money guaranteed in 2007 to highest paid Yankees and Mets:

ARod - $27,000,000.00
Jeter - $19,000.000.00
Giambi - $18,000,000.00
Mussina - $17,000,000.00
Johnson - $16,000,000.00
Abreu - $15,500,000.00
Damon - $13,000,000.00
Matsui - $13,000,000.00
Rivera - $10,500,000.00
Posada - $9,000,000.00
[u:abaa3c4a0d]Pavano - $8,000,000.00[/u:abaa3c4a0d]
Total = $166,000,000.00


Delgado - $14,400,000.00
Martinez - $14,000,000.00
Beltran - $12,000,000.00
Wagner - $10,500,000.00
[u:abaa3c4a0d]LoDuca - $6,250,000.00[/u:abaa3c4a0d]
Total = $63,650,000.00


I don't remember what Glavine's deal is and of course there are other players under contract to these two teams for next year and we all know that the Yankee payroll is astronomical, but its just interesting looking at these numbers.

[Guest sharpie]

Rheal Cormier to the Redlegs.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2535126

[Guest cooby]

Phils cleaning house...

[duan]

TransMonk wrote: Tigers get Pirates' 1B Casey for minor-leaguer

the 100% weirdest thing about that is that Shelton's been optioned to the minors to make room for Casey. Remember the hard time Pittsburgh got at the start of the year when he was mashing homers and he'd been grabbed from them in the Rule V draft?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Reds also get Kyle Lohse from the Twoins for a minor leaguer.

I think the Mets should go get Schmidt AND Oswalt. Why the the double hockeysticks not.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Cincinnati can't load up enough on releif pitching. Let it go, guys.

[duan]

I'd be SO up for Roy Oswalt. SO up for him that you wouldn't believe. I'd happily part with Lastings if that were the price.

[Elster88]

Me too. But I'm trying to ignore that rumor as best I can. Keeping the hopes down as much as possible.

[MFS62]

Ed Coleman was on WFAN right before noon. He said Omar is talking to Houston about Oswalt, but nothing hot.
He said the best bet is that the Mets will go after a lefty bat for the bench, and don't look for anything else to happen that would be too significant.

But I have this feeling that Omar is looking to obtain Julio Lugo. Just a hunch.

The NY Daily News this morning also mentioned Roberto Hernandez might be a target.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

A lefthanded power bat on the bench would be nice.

Robocop would only be needed if Heilman is dealt.

[Elster88]

Edgy DC wrote: Robocop would only be needed if Heilman is dealt.

Agreed. He'd be fourth on the depth chart of righties, IMHO, if we added him to what we have now.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Per Rotoworld:

]The Houston Chronicle's Richard Justice reports that Astros owner Drayton McLane has ordered GM Tim Purpura to trade Brad Lidge. The Rangers are the team getting mentioned in connection with Lidge, but if he has to go, there will be more interested parties, starting with the Mets and Red Sox. The Astros could turn over closing duties to Dan Wheeler if they move Lidge.

If true, I wonder what it would take to get Lidge. He's having a rough season, but if we could straighten him out, man, we'd have a killer bullpen . . . And it'd allow us to put Heilman in the rotation (although I may be the only person who still wants to see that).

I'd think a B prospect would get it done, which I'd consider worth it.

[metirish]

I wonder if Jim Duqette will be making any deals today.

[MFS62]

metirish wrote: I wonder if Jim Duqette will be making any deals today.

Only if Monty Hall yells "Jim, come on down!"

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

We have a killer bullpen. We don't need to make a project of straightening out a guy in the midst of a rough season in order to accomplish that.