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Thursday, December 23, 2004 |
Pickoff Moves
Hello, Miller, Millar, Mueller, and Miller -- Please Hold
Thanks to Idiots Write About Sports for the observation that, with the signing of former Astro pitcher Wade Miller, the Boston Red Sox now have three Miller homophones working there and is "one-eighth of the way toward fielding a roster composed entirely of Millers". All they need is to sign Damian and Justin Miller.Drew Signing Official
The Dodgers will make Drew's signing official on Thursday. I guess I'm not unhappy in that the club managed to get a decent bat, but getting one that doesn't play third base, has only one time in his career had more than 500 at bats in a season, and is already 29 after having lost significant time to injuries -- while homegrown Beltre was cut loose -- is not comforting.Is the signing, as Baysball put it, "lunacy" for the number of years involved? Perhaps. But if the A's are in the process of spending -- what? a fifth? -- of their salary budget on Jason Kendall, how much smarter is that? The battle of the saber-GMs goes on, with each move more inscrutable than the last.
Old Business: The Departures Of Amezaga And Jenks
I didn't have much to say about the Chisox claiming RHP Bobby Jenks off waivers, nor the same when the Rockies acquired no-love-but-for-the-glove Alfredo Amezaga in the same way. With Izturis on the roster, I can understand losing Amezaga; he might even turn into Neifi Perez II in the thin air up there. But what I don't understand is -- why lose Jenks? The Angels were certainly hoping they could get Clement, but when, the very next day Matt Clement signed with Boston, the Angels lost a highly-ranked prospect. Granted, that was before the pins went into his elbow, and no, I don't think highly of the White Sox organization, but still, this seems to me an embarrassing stumble. A defining mark of rich men who stay that way is their blank refusal to pay a nickel more for anything than they have to, but Stoneman isn't doing that. At least it wasn't Santana...
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