Offseason Transactions 2010-11

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Fred Lewis wouldn't be a bad thing to have. Reserve corner OF with good wheels, decent glove and a little power.

[ashie62]

Where did this 6 million dollar addition to Mets payroll cap come from.? Are the Mets broke?

[Frayed Knot]

Ashie62 wrote: Where did this 6 million dollar addition to Mets payroll cap come from.? Are the Mets broke?

Huh?

[Valadius]

Wiggy to the Rockies, 2 years, $7.5 million.

[Valadius]

Also, looks like the Nationals, after radically overspending for Jayson Werth, are going to over-bid everybody for Cliff Lee. I think Werth was a mistake, but it's nice to see the Nats acting like the big-market team they are for the first time.

[smg58]

Valadius wrote: Wiggy to the Rockies, 2 years, $7.5 million.

The Rockies have lefty bats on the infield corners, so he's a good fit there.

[ashie62]

The Mets sign Sid Fernandez pictured with his wife

[Valadius]

George Sherrill to the Braves, 1 year, $1.2 million.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Boo.

[Frayed Knot]

Scott Downs - 35 y/o reliever gets a 3-year deal from the Angels.
Nice couple of years recently but ...

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Frayed Knot wrote: Scott Downs - 35 y/o reliever gets a 3-year deal from the Angels. Nice couple of years recently but ...

3/15, no less.

[A Boy Named Seo]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Scott Downs - 35 y/o reliever gets a 3-year deal from the Angels. Nice couple of years recently but ... 3/15, no less.

Plus 2yrs/$8 mils given to Takahashi. Angels not scared of signing aging, lefty bullpenners.

[Frayed Knot]

Minor deal involving 2B Brendan Ryan going from the Cards to Seattle where he'll probably take the starting job and move Chone Figgins back to 3B - and I only bring it up because the price was pitcher Maikel Cleto, the now 21 y/o RHP who was a NYM prospect (supposedly the diamond in the rough) who went in the big 3-way deal for JJ Putz et al.

Cleto, 21, was added to the Mariners' 40-man roster on Nov. 19 to protect him from the Rule 5 Draft. The right-hander went 4-9 with a 6.16 ERA in 23 games for Class A High Desert last season and was 2-1 with a 7.91 ERA in six starts for Peoria in the Arizona Fall League.

[seawolf17]

Parnellian numbers for young Cleto there.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, although in his defense, the high-A California League is the biggest hitter-happy circuit in the minors and High Desert specifically (because it's in like the high desert) is maybe the king among pitchers graveyards in that league.

[smg58]

I'd have thought that after how last season went, the Mariners would de-emphasize defense a little and go for some bats. So what's the first thing they do? Trade for a plus defensive shortstop who had a .573 OPS last season, and pencil him in at second base.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Yeah, but can you put a dollar value on this kind of tonsorial* acumen?







*Funnily enough, he actually looks like an old-timey barber.

[Valadius]

He ought to do a guest spot on Boardwalk Empire.

[DocTee]

Orlando Hudson to Sandy Eggo: 2 years, $11.5 million

[Benjamin Grimm]

Wait... does that mean he's not gonna be a free agent next year?

I didn't know that was possible!

[Fman99]

DocTee wrote: Orlando Hudson to Sandy Eggo: 2 years, $11.5 million

Dang.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

First, there was that rough Benoit deal with Detroit. Then, of late:

Matt Guerrier to the Dodgers for 3/$12M.

Jesse Crain to the South-Siders for 3/$13M.

Bobby Jenks to Boston for 2/$12M.

Hell, Dan Wheeler grabbed a 1-yr deal with fairly easy vesting player option that equates to 2/$6M. With those same Sawx.

The Carrasco deal looks better and better.

(Though I do wish we'd made a play for Choate, though, who took a reasonable Carrasco-y 2-year deal to dish for the Fish. Late-blooming flameballer Joel Peralta for 900K to the Rays was also mildly jealous-making.)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

And speaking of Fish...

The Marlins and arbitration-eligible right-hander Ricky Nolasco have hit a stalemate in their talks about a long-term contract extension, reports Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports. We heard that "a significant gulf exists between the two sides" back in September. Morosi says they've been exchanging three-year proposals. If the Marlins and Nolasco are unable to agree to a long-term deal, they could simply allow the arbitration process to play out, settling on a one-year contract around $6MM (he earned $3.8MM in 2010). Nolasco is arbitration-eligible for the third time as a Super Two, so the Marlins still control him through 2012.

[Guest Edgy DC]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: (Though I do wish we'd made a play for Choate, though, who took a reasonable Carrasco-y 2-year deal to dish for the Fish. Late-blooming flameballer Joel Peralta for 900K to the Rays was also mildly jealous-making.)

I was kinda hoping we'd take a stab at Sherrill. (Or, you know, Feliciano.)

[bmfc1]

Rick Ankiel to the Nationals.

[Frayed Knot]

- More multi-year middle-relief madness as Jesse Crain gets a three-year/$13mil deal from the ChiSox

- Ricky Nolasco gets an extension with Florida (3/$26.5)


In the world of more sane one-year contracts --

- Austin Kearns goes back to the seriously, I just used a racist word when I really meant "Guardians" after soiling himself w/the Yanx over the final eight weeks of last season

- Bill Hall to Houston, apparently play 2nd base (you never know where he'll wind up)

- Rick Ankiel to Washington presumably as the LF replacement for Willingham

[smg58]

I'd have considered Hall as a platoon option at 2B who could help out at other positions, but the Astros gave him decent money and a full-time gig. He's a bit like Ty Wigginton, in that he has to choose between being a very useful platoon player/10th man on a good team or starting for a non-contender.

Nolasco's peripherals always suggest better results than he's actually shown to this point. I would not be that comfortable paying a premium for upside when he's coming off two seasons with an ERA above 4.50 in an NL pitchers' park.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

In front of a defensive team that's been bottom-five in the league in runs saved for the entirety of his career. Dude, he's like Javy Vazquez but in his arbitration years.

The strand rate/BABIP rate with men on has been funky during the last two years. But the peripherals and underlying talent are such that I would wedgie my mama to pay Nolasco that much.

[Frayed Knot]

Rockies acquire Matt Lindstrom from the Astros for two minor league arms, neither of which looks all that young (23 & 24) or all that good.

[ashie62]

Lindstrom had quite a few Astros saves last season. easy come easy go I guess..