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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
Dodgers Decline Option On Randy Wolf, Might Pick Up Lieberthal
The Dodgers are likely to decline Randy Wolf's $9M 2008 club option, but are much more likely to pick up catcher Mike Lieberthal's much more reasonable $1.5M option, according to the Daily News. Tony Jackson paints a picture that makes it look very like Juan Pierre's days in center might be numbered:
"We have to go through the club player by player," Colletti said. "Some players take longer to discuss than others. There may be a position change or two, and there may be a role change or two that may need to be discussed."Improvement via free agency will be tough:Colletti wouldn't get into specifics, but there is a reasonable possibility that fleet center fielder Juan Pierre will be asked to move to left field next season to make room for a stronger arm in center. That stronger arm could belong to Matt Kemp, who just completed his second year in the majors and whose potential remains off the charts, but who still is very much a work in progress. It also could belong to a yet-to-be-signed veteran, with Atlanta's Andruw Jones and Minnesota's Torii Hunter heading this winter's list of free-agent center fielders. Or it could be someone the club acquires in a trade.
"Looking over the potential list of free agents, it is a very thin list in many areas," Colletti said. "As time goes on, that list is going to become thinner and thinner year by year. With revenue sharing, teams are signing players to long-term deals and locking them up. And if you go back to July and the trading deadline, that was something we had to consider in deciding whether to trade any of our young players, because how do you replace them?"The Dodgers also have seven arbitration-eligible players this offseason: Chin-Hui Tsao (likely to be non-tendered), Mark Hendrickson (whom it appears will be a Dodger next year), and "pitchers Joe Beimel, Yhency Brazoban and Scott Proctor, catcher Chad Moeller and outfielder Jason Repko".
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