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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.
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Career .881 OPS against lefties. If you're looking for a platoon partner for Thole, you could do much worse.
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The Worth of Werth (Split from Offseason Transactions)
smg58 replied to bmfc1's topic in New York Mets Talk
metirish wrote: It makes some of our contracts look pretty good," Alderson said. They may have a hard time prying Minaya out from under the bus. -
The Worth of Werth (Split from Offseason Transactions)
smg58 replied to bmfc1's topic in New York Mets Talk
metirish wrote: 7 years at $126 million....I guess you need to overpay if you are the Nats.......Crawford must be throwing a party seeing that deal. That depends on how reasonable the other bidders were. And why is anybody bidding like this on Werth with Crawford still on the table? -
If this is the best the Padres could do, I'd have kept Gonzalez for a year. You can make a playoff run right now with an elite player, or you can bank on an underachieving pitching prospect and two other OK minor leaguers helping you get there eventually. It's like they've forgotten they're a good team right now. Or at least were one before yesterday.
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Non-Tender deadline Thurs - catchers available maybe ...
smg58 replied to Frayed Knot's topic in New York Mets Talk
I don't know if it's a question of more reps, or whether the reps that he had were enough to get an accurate sense of his worth. That's true whether his OPS was .700 or .900. Bench players can look better than they really are over a small sample size, too (Timo Perez, Mark Johnson, Eric Valent, Ruben Gotay, etc.). Maybe this is as good as Carter gets, or maybe a different set of 180 PAs tells a very different story. The problem with players stuck with the AAAA tag is that they rarely get more chances than Carter got to establish themselves on this level. (Although, on a slightly related front, I do have to give props to Nelson Figueroa for getting tendered a major-league contract by the Astros.) -
Non-Tender deadline Thurs - catchers available maybe ...
smg58 replied to Frayed Knot's topic in New York Mets Talk
I'll wait and see on Carter. If Alderson winds up spending more money to bring in a lefty bench bat to replace what we already had, I won't like it. I also wouldn't be surprised if Carter comes back on a minor league deal. He could have been outrighted when Hessman and Valdes were, but that would have enabled another team to claim him off waivers. Having Hideki Okajima and J. P. Howell on the list of non-tenders should definitely make it more of a buyer's market for lefty bullpen help. I hope the Braves regret cutting Matt Diaz. Fangraphs made an issue of the Nats cutting Joel Peralta. He threw 87 innings out of the pen for KC in 07, his arm fell off, he was dreadful for two years, but last year he was outstanding (2.02 ERA, 0.80 WHIP). You usually don't see guys non-tendered after the kind of year he had. -
metirish wrote: smg58 wrote: Theriot gets traded to the Dodgers. In keeping up the Ollie comparisons, De la Rosa has resigned with his current team for more than he's worth. Didn't he get traded by the Dodgers to the Cardinals? Duh, my bad.
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http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/12572/ollies-velocity-passable He's showing some signs of life in Mexico. I think we have to give him a shot for some role in the spring, because we're guaranteed nothing in return for him.
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Theriot gets traded to the Dodgers. In keeping up the Ollie comparisons, De la Rosa has resigned with his current team for more than he's worth.
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The Dodgers have quite a bit of money locked up in infielders. I think Ryan Theriot becomes a non-tender candidate, unless they can arrange a deal for Furcal or Blake.
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Well the Vazquez signing suggests that the market for pitchers not named Lee is pretty small, and that's encouraging as we still need starter #5. It looks like Juan Uribe is about to get 3 and 21 from the Dodgers, though, so the same can't be said for middle infielders. If I was sure we presently had $7M in payroll room, I might feel worse about the situation. The deal produces no long-term benefit, though, and the Marlins aren't in any better short-term shape than we are.
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Assuming he even gets a major league deal, whatever salary he earns should come from incentives.
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Fman99 wrote: The real winners here are us, can we all agree on that? No argument from me.
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Jorge de la Rosa reminds me of another relatively young Type A lefty who got a generous contract based on upside rather than actual on-field performance. Maybe he'll be worth the draft picks.
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He had a couple of blow-up games but was otherwise very solid (20 of his 33 runs allowed came in 5 relief appearances). He's not somebody I'd have dropped from the 40 unless/until I knew I had a better use for that roster space.
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Do the pre-FA arb-eligible guys find out today as well? Like I said before I'm willing to go year-to-year with Pedro, even if it means paying more up front. If somebody else offers him multiple years, though, I'd take the pick and move on.
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I'm fine with him until the Mets' performance on the field gives me a reason not to be.
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Paulino is one of those young, "has upside if he can stay healthy" type of pitchers. The Rockies have had some success with developing arms lately, and they gave up an arb-eligible guy who's no longer good enough to start for them. If Barmes isn't hitting in Colorado, I'm not sure what Houston really expects from this..
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The Marlins got two useful and cheap relievers for Maybin, which isn't nothing. But Maybin had a series of nagging injuries this past year, so I'm a little surprised they were so quick to get rid of him.
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I wouldn't mind seeing Chase Lambin back in the organization. The same goes for Willie Collazo; I'm not sure why he's been getting starts, but he could be a decent lefty in the back of the pen. RJ Swindle has a rep for throwing pitches in the 60 mph range, but he always puts up good AAA numbers. He could be fun, and possibly even effective in a LOOGY role. It's sad to see Dontrelle Willis on that list.
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The speculation can go crazy if you're not careful. Especially when what we do know is more than damning enough.
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Willets Point wrote: Sparky is definitely in my earliest baseball memories. He was manager of the winning team in the first World Series I ever watched in 1984. Didn't know about his Reds career until much later in my life. RIP, Sparky. He was the manager off the first WS winner I ever watched, but that was 1976. He piloted some great teams. The Reds didn't really need his help, but the Tigers were a textbook case on how to play to matchups. RIP.
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I'm perfectly willing to go year-to-year with Feliciano. I don't seem him getting a huge raise in arbitration, and he's capable of improving on this past season. On the other hand, if somebody else offers him multiple years I'm OK with taking the draft pick and looking elsewhere. Unless the Mets somehow find money for Cliff Lee (and based on this past year they will probably need to cut some payroll before they can get aggressive with anybody), I'd be looking for somebody who'd take a year and an option to be starter #5. That would probably wait until January. There does seem to be decent depth at second base, which is encouraging.
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Last year's injury kept Reyes from even reaching Type B status, so this is the wrong year to let him walk. I kind of like not being committed for more than a year at this point, though.
