― 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
― John (jdahlem), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link
-- John (johndahle...), January 10th, 2005.
Boo hoo. You follow a team that is a perennial contender and which has been in the World Series what, 5 or 6 times in the last 10 years? Plus they seem to have an almost limitless supply of cash... (not that they seem to spend it very wisely - what is it with NY teams and overspending?)
― ojitarian (ojitarian), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Monday, 10 January 2005 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link
By John
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 10 January 2005 05:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't believe the Mets are guaranteed more than .500 at this point, but rasheed, you have to figure in the added value of a full season of David Wright ... and, if they get lucky, Reyes, Benson and Victor Z. (not that one or two of those might not be permanent disappointments).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
As for the pitching: I'm a fan of Victor Zambrano, especially as a No. 4, even though to this day the fact that Jim Duquette gave up Kazmir to get him makes my head hurt (imagine Martinez-Glavine-Benson-Kazmir-Trachsel). Benson I'm not so sure about, even though I have no real sound statistical basis to think that he'll be anything other than a very solid No. 2 or 3. As for Martinez, I remember hearing some commentators talk about how some of Pedro's late-season control problems last year might have been related to his adjustment to once again pitching at full strength -- that he had altered his mechanincs slightly to compensate for playing hurt over the last few years and that as he got stronger he was slower to adjust than he should have been. His throwing at 92+ at times in the ALCS and World Series lends some credibility to this theory, but who knows. There's also a lot of talk about his allegedly "90% torn" labrum.
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Sheehan -- I chortle as I paste:
"The Mets have had the best offseason of any team, not just this year, but in recent memory. By ignoring the middle class and focusing on getting the best players they could, they've improved by 10 to 15 wins, vaulting to the top of the NL East mix.
If New York is a Mets town again in 2007, it will be the decisions made this winter by the two teams that made it that way. The Yankees' mistakes directly benefited the Mets, and that they took advantage is a credit to Fred Wilpon and Omar Minaya. For the first time in a long time, the best front office in New York may be located in Queens."
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
"The Mets have had the best offseason of any team, not just this year, but in recent memory. By ignoring the middle class and focusing on getting the best players they could, like Mike Cameron, they've improved by 10 to 15 wins, vaulting to the top of the NL East mix."
"The Mets have had the best offseason of any team, not just this year, but in recent memory. By ignoring the middle class and focusing on getting the best players they could, like Cliff Floyd, they've improved by 10 to 15 wins, vaulting to the top of the NL East mix."
"The Mets have had the best offseason of any team, not just this year, but in recent memory. By ignoring the middle class and focusing on getting the best players they could, like Mo Vaughan, they've improved by 10 to 15 wins, vaulting to the top of the NL East mix."
"The Mets have had the best offseason of any team, not just this year, but in recent memory. By ignoring the middle class and focusing on getting the best players they could, like Bobby Bonilla, they've improved by 10 to 15 wins, vaulting to the top of the NL East mix."
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― major jingleberries (jingleberries), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Three or four again? Well four guys is something, I guess. I suppose LA should just be grateful they unloaded his horrendous contract.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link
as per the mets, while neither move is terrible it's easy to see how either could become serious deadweight for a seriously long time. i dunno, seems well worth it to me but it's not my money/team.
― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Carlos Beltran: 27
Pedro Martinez: 33Tom Glavine: 37Mike Cameron: 31Cliff Floyd: 30[Carlos Delgado: 33]
Mo Vaughn: 34Bobby Bonilla: 29 / 36 (ha!)
"One of these things is not like the other..." (though it might be in 4/5 years)
BTW - what NY's (nominal) CFs will be making this yearBeltran - $17MBernie - $12.5M
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link
The Pedro contract presents a similar problem for the Mets, I think. There is just no way they are getting four solid years out of him. Even if he starts the contract in relatively good health, he's fragile. Plus, if the Mets don't win right away, his attention is likely to wander and he might even bark for a trade -- whereby the Mets are likely to have to eat a sizable part of his salary. So Wilpon is probably at the end of the day paying Martinez more like $26 or $27 million a year for performance.
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link
My fave thing about the Unit-cameraman nonsense is "Don't talk back to me." I guess he doesn't have a noblesse oblige clause.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
ED FUCKING KOCH! W. T. F?
Fucking Riccardi. He better pull of this Hillenbrand thing that I've been hearing rumours about.
I wish I could just turn on some hockey (World Juniors notwithstanding) and ignore all this.
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
i wouldn't get too excited about shea.
― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
i wouldn't get too excited about shea.I am also aware of this - but it would be nice to have someone on the team that's played SOME 1st base!Plus, I only became aware of his "colourful personality" ("Trade me faggot") after my last post.
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
$500,000
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link