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Monday, March 31, 2008 |
Opening Day
It's sort of like a present, isn't it, what you do with a present — you open it. And like a present, you don't know what's inside. Unlike a present, you can't know what will happen until 162 games later. Children are born, old men die, and inbetween, the ballparks fill up and the clock of summer begins its tick, tick, ticking again.
The Register's Preseason Predictions
The Orange County Register projected the Angels to finish second (behind the Mariners) in the AL West, citing the loss of their top two starters as the reason. (Sorry, no link, as this appears to be a print-only feature.) A useful tonic appears here; despite Erik Bedard, the M's still have questionable offense, and even with an improved rotation (the reason Randy Youngman cited for that team winning the West), the M's need a bounceback season from Richie Sexson, a guy who fell off the cliff in 2007.As for the Dodgers, why, the Reg picks them to finish first. Okay.
Angels Tap Darren O'Day, Two Other Rookies For Bullpen Jobs
The Angels' 2008 opening day roster was announced early Sunday; the surprise/non-surprises were all in the bullpen, as Darren O'Day, Jason Bulger, and Rich Thompson made the cut. The Angels also decided, perhaps based on necessity, to carry a ridiculous six outfielders, including Reggie Willits, who must be grateful the Angels didn't burn an option on him.Dodgers' Opening Day Roster
Blake DeWitt made the Dodgers' opening day roster, which currently is set to 24 men on dodgers.com and does not include DeWitt for some reason. Ramon Troncoso is the only other surprise on that list. Clayton Kershaw was optioned to AA Jacksonville, but with an 0.64 ERA in 14 innings, he'll be back soon enough.Today's Games
Giants @ Dodgers, 1:10 PM PDT; Barry Zito vs. Brad Penny. No need to discuss how bad either of the Giants or Barry Zito have been in spring training; they're irrelevant to the division this year. This series should be a nice easy warmup for the Dodgers to the regular season.Angels @ Twins, 4:10 PDT, Jered Weaver vs. Livan Hernandez. Weaver took half the rest he did in last year's offseason and spent time at Scott Boras' offseason workout-drome; Weaver's spring training results tell the tale of a great deal of improvement, going 5-0 (the most wins of any pitcher in 2008 spring training) with a 1.37 ERA over 26.1 innings.
Labels: angels, dodgers, transactions
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What do you mean by "burn an option"? Options aren't like poker chips. You can't run out them. They have an option on Willits (unlimited "options" if you will) all year.
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One common misconception about the rules is that a player may only be "optioned out" three times. Actually, each player has three option years, and he can be sent up and down as many times as the club chooses within those three seasons.
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One common misconception about the rules is that a player may only be "optioned out" three times. Actually, each player has three option years, and he can be sent up and down as many times as the club chooses within those three seasons.
Yeah, but the year is going to go by either way. Regardless of where he is this year, he'll be out of options next year.
Will he? I thought options were available so long as a player was at least arbitration eligible. Once a player is free-agency eligible, options can't be used.
Well, players past three years are ALWAYS arbitration eligible. Tom Glavine was arbitration eligible. Options are available in the years BEFORE a player is arbitration eligible.
Certainly. But they can also go longer; there's no requirement that option years be used consecutively. (Sorry 'bout the Google cache link, but that was the best I could come up with. I remembered that option years don't have to be consecutive, but I couldn't find a better source for that.)
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