Aaron Rowand a Giant

[Frayed Knot]

Well ... he's still the same height he was earlier this year, but he did just sign a 5-year FA deal w/SF

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Mets just got a little better.

[smg58]

The Phillies will find him hard to replace.

[Valadius]

Because of this, the Giants have broken off talks with the MFYs over Matsui.

[Benjamin Grimm]

smg58 wrote: The Phillies will find him hard to replace.

Even though I live in the Philadelphia market, I pay very little attention to the Phillies.

I do know that they've known for a while that they weren't likely to keep Rowand. I haven't picked up on what their plan might be for replacing him.

[metsmarathon]

i would have thought their plan to replace him has become brad lidge

[Frayed Knot]

I think the idea is slide Shane 'The Flyin Hawaiin' Victorino over to CF as Jayson Werth takes over full-time in RF.
Michael Bourne was the identity (see what I did there?) of the other CF candidate but he was the guy who went in the Lidge deal.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, Burrell/Victorino/Werth is nobody's idea of a bad outfield. They just lose some of the glorious redundancy they had last year. Yeah, they get worse, as I said above, but we're still in a position of rooting for injury or Burrell going into one of his three-month tank jobs.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'd be surprised if they really went Victorino/Werth. I mean they could, but I'd think they'd explore other options first. Cameron maybe?

Rowand hit 27 HRs and 45 doubles last year -- I'm glad he's out of there.