― bnw (bnw), Friday, 24 December 2004 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 27 December 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 30 December 2004 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Hee Seop will be the full-time OBP force at first in LA, LA will get minor leaguers (hope they're worth that $18M/yr).
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link
"My philosophy with regard to the Yankees is, I assume they're going to win about 100 games a year and we have to win 100 if we want to win the division. Our whole gameplan is to try and win 95 to 100 every year to get us to the postseason so we have a chance to win the World Series every year. We spend a lot less time thinking about the Yankees and their moves than you might think. I assume going into every offseason that they're going to land probably the best position player and the best pitcher available because they have the means to do so and they're smart and they usually do. And they haven't won the World Series in a few years. We'll just focus on ourselves."
(The link's to an article about the Red Sox reaction to the Randy Johnson trade.)
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Ponson released after a week in jail
Tuesday, January 4, 2005
(01-04) 08:35 PST ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) --
Baltimore Orioles pitcher Sidney Ponson was released from jail on Tuesday after being held for a week while police investigated allegations he punched a judge on a beach in Aruba.
Ponson appeared before a judge on Tuesday and prosecutors said they would not oppose his release as he awaits trial, the daily La Prensa reported. The 28-year-old right-hander faces charges of public violence and simple aggression. No trial date has been set.
Under Aruba law, a suspect can be detained for up to eight days without bail while police investigate a crime.
Ponson, who was born on the Dutch Caribbean island, allegedly punched a local judge on Dec. 25 at a beach in Boca Catalina after several people confronted Ponson, accusing him of harassing them with his personal watercraft and operating it recklessly, police said.
The judge was hospitalized with minor injuries, authorities said. Ponson fled the scene but police detained him later in the day, said authorities.
Ponson went 11-15 with a 5.30 ERA in 33 starts and 215.2 innings pitched last season. He has played with the Orioles except for a brief stint with the San Francisco Giants in 2003. He became a free agent after that season and signed a $22.5 million, three-year contract with Baltimore.
He has a 69-80 career record in seven seasons with a 4.67 ERA and 802 strikeouts in 210 games and 1,313 innings pitched.
In 1998, Ponson became the third Aruban to play in the major leagues. In 2003, he was decorated in his homeland as a knight in the Order of the Dutch Royal House.
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
-- from an Orioles message board re: Sir Sidney
― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Before I moused over the link, I assumed Gygax! was linking to a Buster Olney pile of crank.
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-spbeltran064105719jan06,0,7719557.story
Hey, Buster Olney is appearing at Coliseum Books in NYC this Saturday eve... shall I attend and give him shit?
http://www.coliseumbooks.com/events/010805event.htm
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 January 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 6 January 2005 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 7 January 2005 04:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 7 January 2005 04:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Renteria is an upgrade at short, that I will grant you. Wells and Clement for Pedro and Lowe is about even. Clement has upside, but I think it is just as possible that he could find his ERA balloning in the AL and Wells rubber arm will be 42 in May.
The Braves may have gotten a new closer, but will Smoltz be good at starting once again? Where are they going to make up the offense lost with JD Drew? Has Chipper Jones peaked?
Everyone else seems to have either gotten worse or at best held ground.
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 January 2005 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost
― John (jdahlem), Friday, 7 January 2005 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Joe Sheehan provides some doom for Dahlem:
"If it ends up that the Yankees chose Johnson, Jaret Wright and Carl Pavano instead of Javier Vazquez and Carlos Beltran, they deserve what's going to happen to them."
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
And why all the sudden is Carlos Delgado not looking to "break the bank" with the Rangers after calling Baltimore's offer "an insult?" My guess: he's not going to play for any of the teams mentioned here, and ends up in Boston or Detroit.
http://rotoworld.com/content/playernews.asp?sport=MLB
Free agent Carlos Delgado could pick Texas over Baltimore and the Mets if the Rangers choose to increase their offer.The Rangers probably have the smallest bid on the table of any of the contenders for Delgado. "Carlos has great interest in playing in Texas, which we have expressed to the Rangers management several times," agent David Sloane said. "We're not looking for any records, and we're not looking to break the bank."
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
What kind of money has Delgado been offered?
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link
ha, he must be a real piece of work if that's all he's worth.
― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link
Pierzynski may be a head case, but I like that signing for the White Sox. It's a pretty minimal risk for them, and gets them back some of the offense they'll lose if Magglio Ordonez moves on -- and at a more important position. He played well in the AL Central as a Twin, and his .729 OPS last year was a bit of a fluke, I think. PacBell doesn't strike me as much of a hitter's park -- Barry Bonds being the exception that proves the rule. And there's always the possibility that the lack of interest showed to Pierzynski in the FA period this year and his inability to secure a multiyear contract will change his attitude.
On another note, my vote for steal of the offseason is the Red Sox nicking Wade Miller after he was nontendered by the Astros. They took practically no financial risk, have him locked down for two years, and if they can fix his funky mechanics to keep him from injuring himself, he could be a legit No. 2 starter down the road. Not bad.
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Saturday, 8 January 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Saturday, 8 January 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― boldbury (boldbury), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― maura (maura), Sunday, 9 January 2005 01:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Derek Lowe anywhere besides LA (or Detroit) = disaster waiting to happen. The fact that he will probably get the $10M/yr he's asking for is mindboggling, unless people are shortsighted & optimistic enough to replace 300+ innings of 5.xx ERA pitching (over the past 2 years) for the 15 innings he threw in last year's playoffs & think the latter's more indicative of what he'll do. DL needs a lot of space with which to work (when those sinkers don't sink) & an infield that can make plays (when those sinkers do sink). Though I thought I remember hearing that Camden Yards is playing less like a hitter's park nowadays, so maybe Baltimore would be a good place for him (assuming Melvin Mora got over the yips that plagued him early last year).
I have no idea what the Rangers are thinking in trying for Delgado - they already have the best infield in the AL (if not the majors). Unless they can turn someone (Soriano? Tex?) into a #1 starter, they shouldn't be sniffing around that stuff. (If Boston wants to start sniffing, though, I won't complain too much.)
Also, re: the AL West - even w/out Hudson & Mulder, the A's are probably going to do what they've always done, & the M's aren't going to be much better than last year (since, as Rasheed noted, their problem was the pitching, which is still poised to be the colossal suck).
How many days until pitchers & catchers report??!?
― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 9 January 2005 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link
fucking fuck fucker
― John (jdahlem), Sunday, 9 January 2005 06:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Wow, a whole 3% attendance increase, which has everything to do with the Astros making an unprecedented playoff run and little to do with Beltran's specific drawing power.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 9 January 2005 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 9 January 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
And even if the attendance increase was entirely due to him, it's an extra 1K per game, which isn't going to cover the $105M they were offering him.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 9 January 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― maura (maura), Sunday, 9 January 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Jim Edmonds (88.9) - $10.0MCarlos Beltran (74.5) - $17.0M (est.)Johnny Damon (51.0) - $8.5M
― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link