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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 |
Roster Notes
- Jon passes along a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story indicating the Pirates are hoping to get their mitts on Milton Bradley, and Olmedo Saenz. The article cites the Cubs as also having interest in Bradley, as are the A's, who have made an offer of Kirk Saarloos and reliever Mario Ramos, and not Barry Zito, as had been suggested earlier.
- The Padres are still actively pursuing closer Trevor Hoffman, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune, and have increased their prior bid, but by how much remains a mystery. Also, the club has acquired Jack "Rhymes With Bust" Cust.
- Jayson Stark writes "buzz at the winter meetings is that Molina now could be heading back to his old team, the Angels" on a one-year deal. The Diamondbacks and Orioles are both interested in the free agent catcher, and former Padre Ramon Hernandez as well. The catching market is more fluid than had been imagined earlier in the offseason, especially with the Tigers shopping Pudge Rodriguez.
- The Boston Herald on the Manny mess, citing a possible three-way involving the Diamondbacks:
With the Angels definitely unwilling to trade their best young pitcher, Ervin Santana, a third team must get involved to get Ramirez to Southern California. The latest front-runners are the Diamondbacks, who would receive a package of prospects from the Angels while the Sox would receive Arizona’s Troy Glaus, who would be used at first base.
Such talk also appears in today's editions of the Boston Globe, which adds that doing so might necessitate a trade of the recently acquired Mike Lowell.Since the Angels would have to shed some salary to accommodate Ramirez’ $57 million, the Red Sox might also have to take an existing contract off their hands as well, possibly Darin Erstad.
- The Twins have spoken with Texas about possibly acquiring Hank Blalock.
- The Rocky Mountain News says the Rockies won't offer arbitration to Byung-Hyun Kim, and have a one-year, $1M contract on the table. Rotoworld says he could be "one of the bargains of the offseason" for a team willing to take a flyer on the Korean hurler.
- The Rockies are talking to the Cubs about moving former Oriole Larry Bigbie.
- Right wrist soreness that plagued Jeff Kent at the end of the season still hasn't subsided; some scar tissue exists, requiring some rehab work on Kent's part.
- Ken Rosenthal reports the Angels are in talks with the Devil Rays to acquire Joey Gathright and/or catcher Toby Hall, as are the Rangers.
- In that same report, the Padres are talking to Nomar Garciaparra as a possible second-base option in case they move Mark Loretta to the Red Sox for David Wells and Doug Mirabelli as has been reported earlier.
- Likewise, the Dodgers continue to evince interest in Bill Mueller as a possible third base candidate. The Daily News article above says Mueller has cut his interest down to the Dodgers and the Pirates.
- David Wells would be happy to play for the Dodgers if the Dodgers hire Jim Fregosi to manage the club, according to the Boston Herald.
- Supposedly the Padres have offered a two-year deal to Kenny Rogers. One hopes the pleasant San Diego atmosphere will anaesthetize his aggressiveness towards cameramen.
- The M's have offered Kevin Millwood a $44M/4-year deal.
- Jeff Weaver is supposedly in talks with the Angels, according to the AP. That would be weird, having two Weavers on the same team...
- The A's acquired reliever Chad Gaudin from the Blue Jays. Gaudin was 1-3 with a 13.15 ERA for the Jays in 2005.
- Update: The Times reports that the Angels and K-Rod have come to a detente regarding pitching in the Venezuelan winter leagues. "[H]e can pitch only three games a week, one inning a game, and he cannot pitch in back-to-back games", but I'll believe it when I see it. (Also on MLB.com.)
Comments:
If Glaus is willing to play first base, why not just cut out Boston and send some prospects to the Rattlers for Glaus?
Better yet, let's go back in time and sign Glaus as a free agent last year to play first base. Then the Angels might have two WS trophies to admire.
Better yet, let's go back in time and sign Glaus as a free agent last year to play first base. Then the Angels might have two WS trophies to admire.
# posted by 
: 12/06/2005 09:50:00 AM
: 12/06/2005 09:50:00 AM
No way do the Angels win it all last year. With the top four hitters slumping, Glaus couldn't have carried the team on his (fragile) shoulders.
Of course, we'll never know with certainty, but I'm a big believer in 'tipping points.' I think one additional bat could have made the difference because Glaus' at-bats would have effected other players' at-bats. Sabremetric guys hate that kind of talk because it's so hard to measure, but physics is full of transition points that dramatically alter the state of a system.
# posted by : 12/06/2005 10:28:00 AM
: 12/06/2005 10:28:00 AM
If Bengie did come back for a season, would the Angels even consider a big bopper? I mean, Bengie will probably get about $8 million in arbitration and he would give the team essentially equal or better production at every position than last season. That would translate into an offense roughly similar to 2004 assuming no one gets hurt or performs like Finley did last year over 400 PAs.
If you're Bengie, though, isn't that a terrible deal? You've already been jilted once by the big, identifiable teams with big checkbooks and a history of dumb overspending (read: the Mets so far), and it's an open secret that you can't run, your behind-the-plate skills are on the wane, and your durability is suspect. On top of all that, the Angels give you a one-year deal that delays your Big, Stinking, Make Me Rich contract by another year, another year in which you can only get older. If you're Bengie Molina, it's all downside..
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