Winter Signings of 2012-2013

[Frayed Knot]

Scott Kazmir - minor league deal/invite to ST, Cleveland Native Americans

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Rafael Soriano to the Nationals, two years, $28 million, with a $14 million vesting option for 2015.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Swan Swan H wrote: Rafael Soriano to the Nationals, two years, $28 million, with a $14 million vesting option for 2015.

Good F*cking Lord.

[smg58]

That's over the top, and then there's a draft pick going to the Yankees as well. Better them than us.

[Frayed Knot]

That'll teach Storen to blow a save in October.

This might also load the Nats up for one last blockbuster this winter, packaging Morse & one of Storen/Clippard to someone for something - most likely to help re-stock their farm system drained in the trades for Gio Gonzalez & Denard Span

[Fman99]

Swan Swan H wrote: Rafael Soriano to the Nationals, two years, $28 million, with a $14 million vesting option for 2015.

It's OK, we have an awesome closer too! His name is, uh, wait, let me think about this...

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: This might also load the Nats up for one last blockbuster this winter, packaging Morse & one of Storen/Clippard to someone for something - most likely to help re-stock their farm system drained in the trades for Gio Gonzalez & Denard Span

Well, no relievers involved, but Morse does get sent away in a three-way deal with Oakland & Seattle
- Morse winds up with the Mariners as they continue to try and improve their weak offense in the year they bring in the fences (Kendry Morales, Jason Bay, Raul Ibanez)
- catcher John Jaso goes to the A's
- and Oakland, who has now made three significant trades with the Nats in the last 13 months, sends prospect pitcher AJ Cole & Blake Treinen, plus a PtbNL to Washington.

Cole was originally Nats property (4th round pick 2010) but was sent away in the Gonzalez deal last December. He pitched in A-ball last year.
Treinen is a 24 y/o RHP who was also in A-ball in 2010
Morse winds up back in Seattle which is where the Nats got him in the first place.

[ashie62]

This is too funny...Josh Thole has been informed by Toronto's GM, per Rotoworld, that he will begin the season at AAA..Buffalo! Josh, you can run but you cannot hide.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Yeah, fuck that autograph-signing, utterly-modest guy!

[ashie62]

It's not a dig at Thole's personality, just a note on the irony of his coming travels.

[MFS62]

Scott Atchison to the Mets.
http://www.rotoworld.com/player/mlb/3929/scott-atchison
He elected not to have surgery. But if his arm has healed, he could be an excellect addition to the bullpen.

Later

[smg58]

He certainly didn't perform poorly last year, but the Red Sox were concerned enough to non-tender him after he posted a 1.58 ERA and a 0.99 WHIP. Seems low risk, high potential reward.

[Vic Sage]

Atchison? Now all we have to do is promote Mejia and trade with the Os to get back Darren O'Day. Then we'd have a bullpen of...
Atchison, Mejia and D O'Day.

[metirish]

The New York Mets Sign RHP LaTroy Hawkins To A Minor League Deal

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Mortality flash-- he's 40. I would have guessed, "well-worn 34-35."

He's been surprisingly serviceable when not hurt (see: 2010) over the last couple of years; plus, it's always nice for TC to have somebody else to discuss Watergate or "Diff'rent Strokes" with.

[Edgy MD]

"LaTroy Hawkins? That guy's old."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Famous for his role in the Craig Brazzell Game.

[MFS62]

He was too young for the Yankees.
Later

[ashie62]

Vic Sage wrote: Atchison? Now all we have to do is promote Mejia and trade with the Os to get back Darren O'Day. Then we'd have a bullpen of... Atchison, Mejia and D O'Day.

Or Dewey Churnham & Howe.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

LaTroy received congratulatory messages from his younger brothers Andy and Coleman.

[Edgy MD]

Sophie B. was her usual standoffish self.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Edgy MD wrote: Sophie B. was her usual standoffish self.

Damn!

[TransMonk]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Sophie B. was her usual standoffish self. Damn!

Two BOCs for the price of one.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: "LaTroy Hawkins? That guy's old."

Like I said, "someone else."

That guy's gotten a LOT out of his 36 years, hasn't he?

[Edgy MD]

Definitely looks like he'd be a good guy to explain to me the differences among several different models of Coleman Coolers at Home Depot.

Shawn Marcum's Tiger Beat days are also behind him.



Last I saw that guy, he was kamakaze-ing his fighter jet into the enemy mothership in Independence Day.

[seawolf17]

If he still has that beard, I wonder how many ignorant fans will call "RA!" across the parking lot to him.